Directing

Ryuichi Takamori

Born — Died

1925-10-31 — 2011-12-21

Place of birth

Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Bodyguard poster
5.1

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?

The Bodyguard

1973

Bodyguard Kiba 2 poster
6.4

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.

Bodyguard Kiba 2

1973

Bodyguard Kiba 2 poster
6.4

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.

Bodyguard Kiba 2

1973

The Boss' Wife poster
6.3

The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.

The Boss' Wife

1988

Cherry Blossoms poster
5.0

A story about love triangle between mother and daughter relation...

Cherry Blossoms

1989

Military Comfort Woman poster
7.5

Movie based on a book by Kakou Senda about the use of women as sexual slaves by the Japanese Army during WW2.

Military Comfort Woman

1974

North Sea Chivalry poster
9.0

Inosuke, a former gangster, and his friends struggle to make a living as simple fishermen in this tale of chivalry and friendship among yakuza in the northern regions.

North Sea Chivalry

1967

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder poster
6.8

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

1972

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair poster
NR

Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair

1971

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair poster
NR

Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair

1971

Game of Chance 2 poster
6.0

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new place and find work running a peddling stall for the upright Tatsumaki family. However, the drifting father and son soon find themselves caught up in a struggle for territory. Boss Negishi, the head of the yakuza family responsible for the death of the former Tatsumaki leader, will stop at nothing to take over the marketplace. Sickened by the injustice, Bungo takes on the rival boss knowing it might cost him his newly acquired freedom..

Game of Chance 2

1967

Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us poster
NR

Detective Hayata's friend is killed by criminals. In order to find the murder, Hayata infiltrate a gang, with the aim of getting closer to the big bosses responsible for the murder

Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us

1971

Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us poster
NR

Detective Hayata's friend is killed by criminals. In order to find the murder, Hayata infiltrate a gang, with the aim of getting closer to the big bosses responsible for the murder

Kamikaze Cop, No Epitaph to Us

1971

Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii poster
5.3

A young man longs to travel to Hawaii, the birthplace of his deceased father, against the wishes of his family, who are estranged from those relatives in Waikiki.

Let's Dance Bon-Odori in Hawaii

1964

Here Because of You poster
5.5

An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.

Here Because of You

1964

Game of Chance poster
6.5

Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...

Game of Chance

1966

The Final Gamble poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Final Gamble

1970

Dash to the Sun poster
NR

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

Dash to the Sun

1966

The Bad Guy Blues poster
7.0

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

The Bad Guy Blues

1969

Kamikaze, the Adventurer poster
6.3

An ex-Olympic athlete and a student commit cash robbery. Aki Hoshino, a pre-med student, becomes inspired to steal money the school collected as “special fees” from parents wanting to assure their offspring’s’ acceptance into the hallowed institution. He forms an unbeatable alliance with an ex-employee and crime bosses to retrieve the ill-gotten money from the “wrong” hands.

Kamikaze, the Adventurer

1981

Fear of Sex poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Fear of Sex

1970

The Beauty in Mourning poster
NR

A beautiful widow named Ruriko Omuta visits the Akechi residence and asks Kogoro Akechi to provide her with personal security. Just then, art dealer Yamano is shot dead right before Ruriko’s eyes. Sensing that there is more to the incident than meets the eye, Akechi sets out to investigate on his own. Meanwhile, back in her hometown of Nagasaki, a man named Shigeyuki Satomi—claiming to be a distant relative of Ruriko’s late husband—appears before her. Though Ruriko finds herself drawn to Satomi, she already has a lover named Yoshio Kawamura. What’s more, Kawamura has been involved in a terrible crime alongside Ruriko. Will Akechi be able to uncover their secret? And who is Satomi really?

The Beauty in Mourning

1994

The Experience poster
6.0

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

The Experience

1970

Game of Chance 3 poster
5.0

Bungo, fulfilling his duty as a yakuza, kills a man from a rival gang. Since then, he has escaped the clan's vengeance by staying on the road with his son Kenichi. Tired of running, the two settle in a mountain town. Bungo finds work as a lumberjack for the Iwasaki family and Kenichi becomes a student at the local elementary school. Regrettably, their good fortune doesn't last. The yakuza boss, Tomitaka, wants control of the town's lumber and is willing to destroy the Iwasaki to get it. Natsue, Kenichi's estranged no-good mother, returns wanting to take part in the boy's upbringing. And shortly thereafter, a mysterious stranger arrives in town to lay claim on Bungo's life...

Game of Chance 3

1967

Sex and Life poster
10.0

Dr. Mikami is an elderly somewhat clumsy, very popular therapist, his patients turn to him with all possible and impossible questions. Because Dr. Mikami's specialty is sexual clarification... The world's best-selling sex literature was filmed here in a manner close to the original. And the openness of the image shows the shocking conflicts of young people in scenes that were never filmed. Shocking documents about sex life from the doctor's office.

Sex and Life

1969

Even If Life Withers poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Even If Life Withers

1968

Three Little Geisha poster
NR

A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.

Three Little Geisha

1973

Three Little Geisha poster
NR

A young girl works as a geisha to earn money for travel.

Three Little Geisha

1973

Ninja Gangsters: Extorting from the Bad! poster
NR

The first in Norio Nanjo's "Secret" series. The phantom Sanzo (Hiroki Matsukata) and Yume no Gosuke (Ashiya Gannosuke) are ordered to infiltrated the Echigo Nagaoka Domain.

Ninja Gangsters: Extorting from the Bad!

1981

The Awesome Circus Bastard poster
NR

Daigaku, member of the circus, is involved in a certain case and is suspected by Detective Hattori and others that he's the culprit. In order to unravel the truth, he does his own investigation with the cooperation of members of his circus troupe.

The Awesome Circus Bastard

1984

The Rickshaw Man’s Son poster
8.0

A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.

The Rickshaw Man’s Son

1967

That Cute Girl poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

That Cute Girl

1965

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tasogare ni hyōteki o ute

1982

Woman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman

1969

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha poster
NR

A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.

Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ゼロの焦点

1991

No artwork available
NR

Kumazou, a "cleaner" for hire, encounters a woman attempting to commit suicide with her two young siblings one night. Kumazou gives them all the money he has and saves them from jumping off a bridge. The next morning, he wakes up to find that the woman and her sons have invaded his home and settled in…

The Forced Marriage with Children

1987

Nagasaki Blues poster
NR

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.

Nagasaki Blues

1969

Samurai Secret Agent poster
NR

A master swordsman is ordered to go undercover on a mission to find and destroy a cannon factory being used by two samurai clans that try to usurp power and gain the position of shogun for one of their own.

Samurai Secret Agent

1983

No artwork available
NR

Takahashi Meiko (Mano Azusa) used to work at a large newspaper company. However, she is now an ordinary housewife. She receives a call from Sasame (Kanda Masaki), a former colleague who is now working at another company asking her for her help. She is informed that a murder has taken place when she arrives and goes to the scene of the crime. She learns that the victim was her son’s intermediate school teacher.

Housewife Meiko Murder Mystery - Death of a Teacher

1999