Minoru Ōki — Actor (63)
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Henchmen (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
代貸
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Tatsuo Umemiya / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 代貸
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: 人生劇場 飛車角と吉良常
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.
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A Yakuza Goes Home (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
極道釜ヶ崎に帰る
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Nijiko Kiyokawa …
other title: 極道釜ヶ崎に帰る
Shimamura & Mineko return to Kamagasaki in Osaka. In their return Shimamura quickly finds himself defending a lady in distress. During the skirmish he bumps into his old buddies who turns him on to the "new" goings on in town, Shimamura is angered to discover a Chinese triad organization has overthrown their gang, a situation they must reverse. Now he and the old gang finds themselves putting their lives on the line defending the honor of the "Yakuza Way", the locals of Osaka, even Japan!!
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Bloodiest Flower (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
日本女侠伝 血斗乱れ花
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Sumiko Fuji / Ken Takakura …
other title: 日本女侠伝 血斗乱れ花
A dramatic captivating tale tells of widowed Tei (Junko Fuji), she has become a coalmine operator and is determined to be successful despite mining being a predominately male domain. Overcoming the natural hardships, a more serious threat to Tei and her mine, the menacing presence of rival mining gangs who sense her vulnerability... Nihon jokyo-den:ketto midarw-bana is an outstanding drama, highlighted by wonderful characterizations/performances. Yamashita's excellent direction maintains a rich emotional flow from the opening seconds to the last. Intense and bloody encounters punctuate throughout the engaging multi layered tale!
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
緋牡丹博徒 お命戴きます
director: Tai Katō actor: Sumiko Fuji / Tomisaburō Wakayama …
other title: Lady Yakuza 7 - Prépare-toi à mourir ! / Lady Yakuza Red Peony Gambler 7: Here to kill you …
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her father was killed. In her travels, she meets villagers whose crops and livelihoods are being destroyed by pollution from a local factory. They seem to work out an agreement, but Oryu must help the poor villagers when the greedy factory owner and corrupt politicians betray them…
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Brothers'Code - The Back Relation (1968) [Movie] WikiData TMDB
兄弟仁義 逆縁の盃
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Bunta Sugawara / Saburo Kitajima …
other title: 兄弟仁義 逆縁の盃
Yakuza Kojima appeared in Yokkaichi in search of her mother who died when she was young. There he met Torajiro, a master of kendo, who had just left prison after slashing his adoptive father who stole his son's wife. Torajiro was on his way to his brother-in-law, Iwai. While talking about themselves, they someday felt something similar to friendship.
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The Red Silk Gambler (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
緋ぢりめん博徒
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Eiko Nakamura / Reiko Ike …
other title: Hijirimen bakuto / 緋ぢりめん博徒
With her first love that unfolded in the battlefield in her heart, and with a short sword and a pillbox as her weapons, female gambler Okatsu the Tiger Lily travels from gambling site to gambling site. Surrounding her are Omon, an outlaw star blind lone gambler; Onaka, a thief who’s after Okatsu to avenge her father’s death; Ohide, a tattoo artist whose back is covered by a dragon tattoo; and Oryu, a young girl sold as a prostitute to a gambling family.