Sumiko Fuji — Actor (81)
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Trials of an Okinawa Village (1971) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
日本女侠伝 激斗ひめゆり岬
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Sumiko Fuji / Minoru Ōki …
other title: Trials of an Okinawa village / 日本女侠伝 激斗ひめゆり岬
A boss from a trucking company has run-ins with evil yakuza during the American occupation of Okinawa. Her hometown is threatened by usurers, gangsters and indirectly by American GI influences. She must battle a yakuza organization with her employees to help settle things.
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Gambler (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
博徒
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Koji Tsuruta / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: 博徒
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
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Gamblers and Racketeers (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
博徒対テキ屋
director: Shigehiro Ozawa actor: Chiezo Kataoka / Koji Tsuruta …
other title: 博徒対テキ屋
Komatsu Takioka is boss of a Yakuza group rival to Masakichi Kijima boss of the Kikuya group which supports the town vendors unlike Takioka, who will stop at nothing to undermine the vendors and take over the territory. Masakichi will do all he can to protect and support the people. Ryutaro Kijima is senior son to Masakichi, though disowned, he keeps interest in the family from a distance. He will be there for his father and his hot tempered younger brother Katsuo, if they should need his loyal help.
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Three Yakuza (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
股旅　三人やくざ
director: Tadashi Sawashima actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 股旅　三人やくざ
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.
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Murder of the Inugami Clan (2006) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
犬神家の一族
director: Kon Ichikawa actor: Koji Ishizaka / Nanako Matsushima …
other title: La familia Inugami / 犬神家の一族
Inugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with Furudate, his legal adviser, for his daughters Matsuko, Takeko and Umeko, all of whom have different mothers, and for their sons, as well as for Nonomiya Tamayo, the granddaughter of a person to whom Sahei feels heavily indebted. The will states that all his assets are inherited by Tamayo alone, on the condition that she marries one of the sons of the daughters. Furudate's assistant learns the content of the will, and seeks advice from Kindaichi Kosuke, a private detective, as he senses the air of unease. Shortly afterwards, murders start to occur one after another in the clan.
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Tasmania Story (1990) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
タスマニア物語
director: Yasuo Furuhata actor: Kunie Tanaka / Hiroko Yakushimaru …
other title: タスマニア物語
Eiji Kawano (Kunie Tanaka) has recently broken from the Japanese company he used to work for. As an immigrant to Tasmania, he has been won over by the island's immense natural beauty, and he is conscience-bound to oppose his former employer's ecologically unsound practices. He is also estranged from his grown son, who still resides in Japan. When his son comes to Tasmania for a visit, he must face the challenge of renewing their relationship.
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Fighting Tatsu, the Rickshaw Man (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
車夫遊侠伝 喧嘩辰
director: Tai Katō actor: Sumiko Fuji / Chōichirō Kawarasaki …
other title: L'indomptable d'Edo / 車夫遊侠伝 喧嘩辰 …
Richshaw man Tatsu has wandered to Osaka from Tokyo. He has quarrels with Kimiyakko, a geisha, and throws her into the river. But later, he falls in love with her. Yasaburo, the oyabun of the Nishikawa Gang, loves her very much too. However, as he likes Tatsu's dynamic personality, he volunteers to become a go-between for their marriage. Yasaburo gets tipped off by Yajima who wants to take over the territory of the Nishikawa Gang, and is arrested and imprisoned. After his release, Yajima tries to kill him. Ginjiro, a lover of Tamaryu respects Kimiyakko as an older sister and a follower of Tatsu, is murdered. After the third marriage ceremony just between Tatsu and Kimiyakko, Tatsu goes off to the place of fighting.
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 7: Hell Is a Man's Destiny (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
昭和残侠伝 死んで貰います
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Ken Takakura / Ryō Ikebe …
other title: Il tatuaggio del drago: L'inferno è il destino dell'uomo / 昭和残侠伝 死んで貰います
Young yakuza Shujiro Hanada goes to prison after losing his cool in a rigged gambling game and slashing a few other players. When he's released in 1927, the world has changed. His sister died in the Great Kanto Earthquake and his father is also gone. His brother Jukichi invites him to stay at his in-laws and works in their family pub. He lies low, helping his blind mother-in-law and slowly developing a relationship with Ikuye, the hostess who helped him before his arrest. But trouble lurks when the resident gang decides to show its strength.
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
昭和残侠伝 唐獅子仁義
director: Masahiro Makino actor: Ken Takakura / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: Il tatuaggio del drago: Il dovere di un leone / 昭和残侠伝 唐獅子仁義
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
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Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf (1966) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
昭和残侠伝　一匹狼
director: Kiyoshi Saeki actor: Ken Takakura / Sumiko Fuji …
other title: 昭和残侠伝　一匹狼 / Showa zankyo-den: Ippiki okami
The karashi Botan returns in the third chapter of the incredible Showa Zankoden series. This time legendary actor Ken Takakura plays Takei Shigejiro of the Shimazu family. When the boss of the Shimazu is killed, Shigejiro takes revenge and is sent to jail. Upon his release, he meets the dying widow of one of hid followers and takes her to her father, Boss Shiomasa, who take him into his family. But when Shiomasa is killed by an old enemy, Shigejiro is obligated to take revenge...
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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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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
男の勝負 白虎の鉄
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Hideo Murata / Saburo Kitajima …
other title: 男の勝負 白虎の鉄
Tetsu, is a honourable and noble yakuza caught in a conflict between rival clans, and obligations each has toward their yakuza boss and brothers. A railroad line brings changing times to a community. Because Tetsu can't stand by and allow a bunch of yakuza men to molest women, it forces him to battle it out with a knife wielding rival, the unfortunate incident leads to his boss losing face and him having to leave the family to protect it. But the rival family won't stop until they destroy Tetsu who will risk life and love for his brothers.