Acting

Junichi Yamanobe

Acting credits

Cruel Gun Story poster
6.7

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Cruel Gun Story

1964

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women poster
NR

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

1963

Intentions of Murder poster
7.0

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

Intentions of Murder

1964

Velvet Hustler poster
6.8

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion for a murder and meets the girlfriend of the murdered man. They develop a strange bond while unbeknown to Goro, another hitman is after him for the job he did in Tokyo.

Velvet Hustler

1967

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962

Biographies of Killers poster
NR

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Biographies of Killers

1969

Virgin Blues poster
7.0

Teenagers are rebels without a cause. Let it be for stress relief or just a way to kill time, Mami (Kumiko Akiyoshi) and Chiaki were always up to no good – but their luck runs out when they shoplift with some other girls at a local supermarket. They flee from the scene and head back home, only to find detectives at their front door.

Virgin Blues

1974

Afternoon Affair: Transformation poster
8.0

A young boy’s dream of a woman is entrusted to the love of a flower. When that beautiful flower withers and the boy discovers the ugliness of women’s true nature, he vows revenge.

Afternoon Affair: Transformation

1973

Foul Play poster
6.0

Private eye Bannai Tarao (Chiezo Kataoka) and his assistant Masako (Chizuru Kitagawa) investigate the mysterious murder of a baseball player who was killed in the middle of a game.

Foul Play

1955

Fresh Leaves poster
7.0

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.

Fresh Leaves

1962

Solo Traveler poster
NR

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

Solo Traveler

1962

Outlaw: Heartless poster
6.8

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Outlaw: Heartless

1968

Jūdan no arashi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jūdan no arashi

1962

Living by Karate poster
6.5

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Living by Karate

1961

Love in Ginza poster
5.0

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist friend who works at a bar. When he and his sweet heart, Hisako decide to get married, Hanjiro is faced with a tough decision. Needing to buy a ticket back home to tell his mother the good news, he compromises his creative principles for love and sells his portrait of Hisako. Hisako heads to the station to see him off, but gets hit by a car...

Love in Ginza

1962

The Last Song poster
7.4

Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new life. But when Junkichi is called off to war, they make a pledge to sing the song of engagement everyday until they are able to reunite

The Last Song

1975

Satan's Town poster
10.0

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.

Satan's Town

1956

Stolen Desire poster
6.7

A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.

Stolen Desire

1958

Merciless Bullet poster
NR

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…

Merciless Bullet

1959

Kidō sōsahan-gun ōkami no machi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kidō sōsahan-gun ōkami no machi

1962

Wakai toppū poster
NR

On his way back to Yokohama, a young boy named Kenji Hase encounters a girl named Yoshiko who is being harassed by the Kaminaryu gang. He rescues her and they head towards Yokohama in Yoshiko's car. In Yokohama, there is an uproar because Kenji's father, Shozo Hase, a customs officer, has been accused of stealing confiscated drugs. The story unfolds with thrilling action as Kenji bravely confronts the gang of villains who framed his father and kidnapped him, all while seeking justice and vindicating his father's innocence.

Wakai toppū

1960

Man at the Bullfight poster
9.0

An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite bullfighting.

Man at the Bullfight

1960

Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kenjū wa samishī otoko no uta sa

1962

Quick Draw Sanshiro poster
NR

Koji Wada, who is good at shooting, karate, judo and boxing, has a tough fight with the sea gangsters!

Quick Draw Sanshiro

1962