
Acting
Michihiro Yamanishi
Born 1948-03-07 · Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Acting credits
6.0A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series.
Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass
1995
4.9When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she agrees to become the bait to lure the killer into a police snare. But as the murderer remains frustratingly aloof, Kyoko discovers that she will have to risk everything in order to apprehend him. Naosuke Kurosawa directs this steamy thriller.
XX: Beautiful Target
1995
5.8A Nietzschean journalist who covered the Vietnam War, Lebanese Civil War and other conflicts becomes mentally unstable and goes on a spree of robbery and murder.
The Beast to Die
1980
6.0An idealistic young lawyer whose faith in the law is rocked when she is unable to prevent a rapist from walking free. Her disillusionment of the judicial system is complete when her next case goes disastrously wrong, her corrupt boss is killed by her disappointed gangster clients, and she only narrowly escapes the same fate when a gun-toting stranger bursts into the office and shoots the men dead.
Gun Crazy: Episode 2 — Beyond the Law
2002
7.4The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.
The Execution Game
1979
7.8BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective.
Yokohama BJ Blues
1981
3.3Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly corroding the clan's cohesion. Ginji, it turns out, was mired in debt. After Ginji borrowed a small fortune to build a luxury resort, his bank went belly up and stopped financing the loan. Frantic for funds, he decided as a last resort to rat out his boss who had skimmed five-billion yen from the gang. Soon everyone assumes that Idei did the hit. Convinced that Idei is being framed, Tamaki sets out to find the real killer.
Yakuza Ladies: Burning Desire
2005
6.6Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
Mount Hakkoda
1977
NRDaigaku, 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
6.2The first movie of Tôru Murakawa’s “Game” trilogy, in which an assassin hired to recover a kidnap victim becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract.
The Most Dangerous Game
1978
8.8Taka and Yuji are searching for a mercenary for the international terrorist organization "The Network" when the head of its branch arrives in Yokohama to carry out Operation Heat Storm.
Abunai Deka Forever The Movie
1998
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Be-Bop High School
1994
4.8Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
The Japanese Belly Button
1977
8.0Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Dead Angle
1979
6.7A private detective and a college student find themselves in hot water while investigating the murder of a night club owner.
Detective Story
1983
6.4Detective Seiji Otaki is determined to find the psychopathic killer of a young woman who was ostensibly a student but in reality a high-priced prostitute. Even though he has been taken off the case for beating up a suspect, he refuses to let it go and recruits his mistress to act as a decoy for the killer. Her involvement turns out to be a fatal mistake, and when her husband gets out of prison, Detective Otaki is in worse trouble than ever.
The Dropout
1982
3.6Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For Fuyuko, who is at an impasse, there is no longer "family", "love" and "freedom".
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
1980
NRA man who was trapped by a gangster who was taken over by a sneaky means of life, such as a gangster and a gangster who disappeared from the screen with the era of his work. With the trampled step-in-law and streaks as shields, the last princes of Heisei who sought a place to die at the end show a fierce way of life!
Heisei Zankeiden: Battered Slash!
1996
NRFighting is strong but female is weak, Toru & Hiroshi rampage over a female college student!
Be-Bop High School 2
1996
NRA hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him, and the friendship that develops as they work together.
Steel & Lead
1997
8.0No synopsis available yet.
The Chaser
1989
NRBased on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki
不良少年
1980
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Saraba Abunai Deka
2016
NRIn a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
1992