Torahiko Hamada — Actor (37)
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The Betrayers Out! (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
望郷と掟
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Noboru Andō / Kiyoshi Atsumi …
other title: 望郷と掟
Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.
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Pinwheel Hamakichi’s Spell 2 (1982) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣
director: Akira Inoue actor: Kazuyo Asari / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: 風車の浜吉捕物綴　秘剣
Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a policeman in Edo. This places Hamakichi between the rock and a hard place.
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Song of Vengeance (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
復讐の歌が聞える
director: Masahisa Sadanaga / Shigeyuki Yamane actor: Yoshio Harada / Ryōhei Uchida …
other title: 復讐の歌が聞える
Executive management of a major Tokyo construction company are getting bumped off one after another. It seems obvious that it is a former partner of the company with a long-standing grudge who is responsible, but he died in the first ten minutes of the movie. Or did he? This may aptly be described as a giallo-noir for the unrelenting string of murders by a mystery man and the black-and-white gritty urban setting.
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Police Precinct: Confession (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
警視庁物語 自供
director: Michio Konishi actor: Yūji Hori / Tokue Hanazawa …
other title: 警視庁物語 自供
The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended. During interrogation, Kinoshita said that he was the one who killed Sakai. However, after a while, he admitted that he lied, because he thought that in prison he could eat plenty of rice for free. The investigation established that Sakai was a repatriate from Manchuria, and after returning to Japan, he had a wife, Rie Kawai. The investigation begins the search for Rie... The 23rd work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.
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Blood-Red Water in the Channel (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海峡、血に染めて
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Kōji Wada / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: 海峡、血に染めて
Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real coast guard action stories" was the perfect vehicle for Koji Wada. Whatever negative press he had received for Tokyo Knights was quickly forgotten. He became the new "teen star." And Suzuki: "the director to watch."
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Blackmail Is My Life (1968) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
恐喝こそわが人生
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tomomi Satō …
other title: Kamikaze Club / 恐喝こそわが人生
Though he has come from a rough background on the streets, Muraki quickly rises through the ranks by means of his well-honed blackmailing instincts. Desperate to keep rolling with his freewheeling lifestyle, Muraki sees his luck begin to crumble when he sets his sights on the business partners of a powerful gang boss.
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The Great Chase (1975) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
華麗なる追跡
director: Norifumi Suzuki actor: Etsuko Shihomi / Mach Fumiake …
other title: 華麗なる追跡
Shihomi Etsuko plays a race car driver who also lends out her services to the Japanese Secret Service. Although there really isn't much of a "chase" to be seen, Shihomi does pursue a cartel of drug runners and assorted Japanese yakuza types. While the story is pure 70's exploitation and gritty crime drama, the best reason to see it is for the Martial Arts Action of Etsuko Shihomi. The action is over-the-top and at times hilarious (i.e. Shihomi battling the lead criminal atop a moving gondola or Shihomi battling a whip-wielding Catholic Nun).
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow! (1970) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
裸の十九才
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Daijirō Harada / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Vivir hoy, morir mañana / 裸の十九才 …
Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes a gun from a house on an American base and uses it to kill several people. The scene changes to Yamada's childhood. Yamada is born the child of a reprobate and a weak-willed woman. As a boy Yamada, experiences poverty and the rape of his sister at first hand.
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The Pirates of Buban (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ブブアンの海賊
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Shōhei Imamura / Kō Nishimura …
other title: ブブアンの海賊
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will come to meet those men in order to understand their position.
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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
第五福竜丸
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Jūkichi Uno / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Dragón de la suerte nº 5 / 第五福竜丸
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
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By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him (1966) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
男の顔は履歴書
director: Tai Katō actor: Noboru Andō / Ichirō Nakatani …
other title: Délit de faciès / 男の顔は履歴書
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
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The X from Outer Space (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
宇宙大怪獣ギララ
director: Kazui Nihonmatsu actor: Shunya Wazaki / Itoko Harada …
other title: Odissea sulla Terra / Guila - Frankensteins Teufelsei …
The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.
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Inugami (2001) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
狗神
director: Masato Harada actor: Yuki Amami / Atsuro Watabe …
other title: Inugami - Le divinità maligne / Inugami - Die Verfluchten …
Akira, a teacher from Tokyo, has just arrived in a small rural town to begin his new job. Soon after arriving, he meets, and begins to fall for, Miki, a papermaker and part of a large and unusual family. When he learns of an ancient legend that the family carries the curse of the Inugami, or Dog God, he brushes it off as silly superstition. After a series of mysterious deaths, however, the townspeople begin to grow restless, and Akira must confront the truth about Miki and her family.