Kōji Takada — Playwright (69)
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Tarao Bannai (1978)
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Norifumi Suzuki actor: Akira Kobayashi / Aki Yashiro …
other title: 多羅尾伴内 / 多羅尾伴內 …
Baseball player Takatsuka is murdered mid-game in front of a large crowd. The autopsy reveals that he has been killed by a needle coated with a poison used by the Ainu tribe for hunting. The next morning, sports photographer Kawase is killed in the same manner. Kawase’s sister, Yuko, hires Taro Banai, the detective with seven faces, to uncover the truth.
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Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger (1968)
男の勝負 白虎の鉄 IMDb TMDB
Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Hideo Murata / Saburo Kitajima …
other title: 男の勝負 白虎の鉄 / 男人的勝負：白虎之鐵 …
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.
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Tale of Ninja Duty (1965)
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Yasuto Hasegawa actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Minoru Ōki …
other title: 忍法忠臣蔵 / 忍法忠臣藏 …
Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is exactly like Orie) be attacked by ninja. Thus he stays Chisaka's residence in Yonezawa. Chisaka was just trying to stop Forty-seven ronin's revenge against Kira Kozukenosuke by female ninja's sexual entrapment. Chisaka asks Tsunataro to lead female ninja. Tsunataro accepts the request on condition of marriage to Oyu.
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Mamushi no Kyodai - Choeki 13 Kai (1972)
まむしの兄弟：懲役十三回 IMDb Douban
中岛贞夫 actor: 菅原文太 / 川地民夫 …
other title: まむしの兄弟　懲役十三回 / 毒蛇兄弟：惩役十三回 …
Part 3 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves.
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty (1972)
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Buichi Saitō actor: Sumiko Fuji / Bunta Sugawara …
other title: 緋牡丹博徒　仁義通します / Lady Yakuza 8 - Le code Yakuza …
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help guide the new Boss. Meanwhile a turf war breaks out. When the family is betrayed from within and the rival family becomes violent, Oryu takes things into her own hands…
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The Great Shogunate Battle (1991)
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Toshio Masuda actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Yukiyo Toake …
other title: 대막부 전쟁 / 江戸城大乱 …
The early days of the Tokugawa shogunate are brought to light in this exciting historical tale of broken vows and violent swordplay. In an ambush the heir to the shogun’s seat is brutally cut down by those who hope to install the emperor’s 5th son as military leader of the nation.
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Shadow Warriors (1980)
影の軍団 服部半蔵 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
工藤栄一 actor: 渡瀬恒彦 / 緒形拳 …
other title: 影の軍団 服部半蔵 / 影の軍団　服部半蔵 …
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the political instability following the death of Iemitsu Tokugawa, Hanzo's Iga ninja clan battles against the Koga clan as various factions vie to seize power. The child shogun Ietsuna is kidnapped but turns out to be hidden under (or over) everyone's noses in a castle turret which is reinforced by a comic book villain, the fire-spitting black ninja. The good ninja has to get through all the traps & save the child.
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Eight Men to Kill (1972)
賞金首 一瞬八人斬り WikiData IMDb TMDB
小沢茂弘 actor: 若山富三郎 / 大木実 …
other title: 賞金首 一瞬八人斬り / 赏金猎人：一瞬八人斩 …
The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.
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The Fort of Death (1969)
五人の賞金稼ぎ WikiData TMDB
工藤栄一 actor: 若山富三郎 / 真山知子 …
other title: 五人の賞金稼ぎ / 赏金猎人：五虎血溅死亡堡
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Ozeki. The villainous lord has driven them to mounting their last stand at a deserted fort against an army of attackers. Wakayama Tomisaburo is superb as an expert in killing and military tactics, who leaves his medical practice at a clinic for the poor in order to counter the vicious tactics of that vile lord.
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Yagyu Chronicles 1: Secret Scrolls (1961)
柳生武芸帳 TMDB
井沢雅彦 actor: 近衛十四郎 / 山城新伍 …
other title: 柳生武芸帳 / Yagyu Chronicles 1: The Secret Scrolls …
Two groups are after the legendary Yagyu Secret Scrolls. A princess of a disgraced clan and her loyal servant want it to clear their family's name. And a rival clan wants it to destroy the Yagyu family. Only master swordsman, Yagyu Jubei stands in their way. What is the secret that is hidden away in the scrolls?
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極悪坊主 念仏三段斬り (1970)
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原田隆司 actor: 若山富三郎 / 菅原文太 …
other title: Yakuza Priest Pt.4 / Gokuaku bozu nenbutsu sandangiri
九州の直方は、真海の生まれ故郷。真海は母の供養を兼ねて、直方に帰る旅の途中で若松に立ち寄ると福岡の黒田一家の賭場に顔を出した。真海は幼なじみの会津竹五郎のいかさまが制裁されようとしているところに出くわす。真海のおかげで許された竹五郎だが、自ら手を潰し真海の好意に逆らった。親分の仇を討とうと真海を追ってきた四国宇和島･鯉沼一家の伊之助たちは、この賭場の様子を見て竹五郎を誘い出すと金で仲間に引き込み、直方の権田原一家に草鞋を脱ぐことに。一方真海は、直方で竜王一家と権田原一家の二つのヤクザ組織が争うために苦しんでいた川人足たちを救おうと起ち上がる。一度は川人足の待遇改善を双方に納得させたものの今度は手を組んだ権田原と竜王が約束を反故にし、真海を消そうとする。ある日、ダイナマイトで目をやられた真海は、意外にも宿敵である了達に救われる…。
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极道之妻 决战 (1998)
極道の妻たち 決着 Douban
中岛贞夫 actor: 岩下志麻 / 片濑梨乃 …
other title: 極道の妻たち 決着
界和信用银行在日本是数一数二的大银行，理事长岩冈被指控挪用公款，也因而使得银二的公司一度周转不灵，鞍马天狗是指控理事长的幕后匿名者。就在岩冈出面招开记者会后离去时，署名鞍马天狗的人出现了....
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忍者狩猎 (1964)
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山内铁也 actor: 近卫十四郎 / 河原崎长一郎 …
other title: 忍者狩り / Ninja gari …
時は三代将軍・家光の治世の頃。松山藩取り潰しの秘命を受けて、30余名の甲賀忍者たちが暗躍していた。彼らを迎え撃つ4人の浪人たちと、激烈な戦いを繰り広げていく甲賀忍者たち。『草の根を分けても探し出し、甲賀三十忍の命を奪え』という命のもと、執念と憎悪を燃やす浪人たち。敵味方相乱れ、やがて一人、また一人と姿を消していく…。 血の匂いも生々しい、忍者と浪人の凄絶な攻防戦を、スリルとサスペンス満点で描き出した時代劇ハード・サスペンス・アクション。山内鉄也監督が忍者の非情な世界をリアルに映し出し、手に汗を握る秀作に仕上げている。
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忍者狩猎 (1982)
忍者狩り Douban
山内鉄也 actor: 松方弘树 / 成田三树夫 …
other title: 忍者狩り / Ninja Hunt …
外様藩取り潰しを狙う幕府隠密・闇の蔵人一味と、藩を守り抜く浪人・和田倉たちとの死闘。三代家光のころ、幕府は甲賀の隠密・闇の蔵人一味を使って、外様藩を様々な理由で取り潰していた。伊予松山藩蒲生家もまた藩主跡目相続を機に、幕府に狙われる。城代家老・会沢は和田倉十次郎ら四人の浪人を雇い忍者を倒すよう命じた。和田倉たちはかつて蔵人たちに主家を潰され、復讐を願うものばかりだ。かくして、蒲生家の命運を握る「家督相続認可のお墨付」をめぐって和田倉たちと闇の蔵人一味の死闘が始まった。映画「忍者狩り」の監督・山内鉄也が今作品も監督を担当。ビデオ未発売。