Akane Kawasaki

Acting

Akane Kawasaki

Born

1948-11-10 (77)

Place of birth

Kyoto, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

35 titles

Known for

Onihei Hankachō poster
7.8

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Onihei Hankachō

1989

Kumokiri Nizaemon poster
9.0

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.

Kumokiri Nizaemon

2013

Professional Killers poster
8.0

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

Professional Killers

1972

Karate Warriors poster
6.8

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Karate Warriors

1976

Solar Eclipse poster
6.9

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Solar Eclipse

1975

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival poster
6.8

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

1970

Film credits

2010s · 2 titles

1970s · 23 titles

Karate Warriors poster
6.8

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Karate Warriors

1976

Solar Eclipse poster
6.9

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Solar Eclipse

1975

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival poster
6.8

The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.

Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival

1970

The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh poster
NR

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers losing their land as a result of strict tax collection. The Tonegawa area of ​​Boso was a lawless area for a generation, as two major forces fought against each other: Sukegoro of Iioka, who wields power with his industrial capital behind him, and Shigezo of Sasakawa, a rising yakuza. Furthermore, the successive floods of the Tone River, which could be called fate, forced the farmers into even more poverty and despair. Meanwhile, farmers in Nabe Village continue to live a lethargic life, but agricultural reform is about to begin under the hands of Yugaku Ohara, a ronin who has settled in the village.

The Tempō Outlaws of the Marsh

1976

Women's Prison for Torture poster
8.0

Shocking scenes are revealed in the Nagasaki Women's prison.

Women's Prison for Torture

1971

The Return of Sister Street Fighter poster
6.5

When Koryu's childhood friend Shurei is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails stranger to join her for a dangerous rescue mission.

The Return of Sister Street Fighter

1975

No artwork available
NR

A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.

A Young Female Instructor

1978

The Angry Sword poster
NR

Story about a gambler who gets involved in a struggle between companies.

The Angry Sword

1970

The Little Hero poster
9.0

A five year old boy leaves his mother and grandparents to see his father who has gone to work in Osaka.

The Little Hero

1970

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wakaki hi no kōdōkan

1971

The Rugby Star poster
10.0

The success of Truck Yaro (1975-1979) initiated a whole load of movies that put "Yaro" in their title, including this semi-bonkers sports comedy/drama. Sonny Chiba's brother Jiro Chiba stars as a Rugby player whose team must find a way to beat the opponent. It's a standard storyline without any major surprises, but works surprisingly well. Training scenes are relatively nuts; much better than the actual matches actually, which tend to go on forever. There is no sex, nudity or graphic violence, making this a family friendly affair. Sonny Chiba appears for about 7 minutes during the last third as a truck driver who comes to Jiro's rescue.

The Rugby Star

1976

Professional Killers poster
8.0

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...

Professional Killers

1973

The Ghostly Trip poster
7.0

The 10th film in the travel series. The original work and screenplay is by Kazuo Funahashi, the director is Shoji Segawa, and the cinematography is by Keiji Maruyama.

The Ghostly Trip

1972

The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule poster
7.0

The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.

The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule

1971

Housewife's Experience: Tenement poster
10.0

Noyuri lives in Fudōsō, a dilapidated apartment building in downtown Tokyo. The owner of Fudōsō is Noyuri's father, Harukichi, but he lost his house and property due to his gambling and womanizing, and is now living with a young woman. Noyuri manages to make ends meet by running the remaining Fudōsō and a small oden shop. One day, Harukichi shows up with a young sexy woman named Shinako. He says she's run out of money and is in debt, so she wants to stay in Noyuri's room for a while. Noyuri initially refuses, but eventually gives in and decides to stay at the oden shop...

Housewife's Experience: Tenement

1975

Kumo no Yuna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kumo no Yuna

1971

Hiding-Place in the Storm poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hiding-Place in the Storm

1971

Ā dokushin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ā dokushin

1970

Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori poster
NR

Akane Kawasaki, known for her aversion to physical contact with men, possesses some unfavorable habits such as stealing. Despite these flaws, she garners popularity in the slums due to her compassionate care for children. In an attempt to secure a stable future for their child, she enters into marriage with Tsutomu Yamazaki, who struggles with a stutter. Unfortunately, their union is cut short by the untimely death of Tsutomu Yamazaki in an accident.

Onna Ikitemasu: Sakariba Wataridori

1972

Ghost of Kasane Swamp poster
7.0

One murky night, Soetsu, a blind acupuncturist and money lender, calls on Shinzaemon Fukami, a Hatamoto samurai, to collect some money. But Fukami is too busy having an affair with a maid and curtly tells Soetsu to ask Sawano, his wife, for the money. As they have no money, Sawano interprets her husband's words as telling her to give herself to Soetsu in lieu of payment. However, Fukami catches them in the act and kills them both. Snatching up Soetsu's money bag with 30 ryo in it, he then asks two ruffians, to sink the bodies in a marsh. From what follows, it seems as if the spirits of Soetsu and Sawano are still hovering on earth in anguish and anger. For soon afterwards, Fukami is found dead by his own hand and Osono, Soetsu's younger daughter, suddenly disappears from home.

Ghost of Kasane Swamp

1970

Love Is After School poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love Is After School

1973

No artwork available
NR

Story exposes free-sex among highschool students.

Sex Revolution

1970

Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life poster
9.0

Soft-Boiled Goro is a 1970 film directed by Kazuo Ikehiro

Useless Creature: Fighting Man's Life

1970

1960s · 6 titles

Series credits

Onihei Hankachō poster
7.8

Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.

Onihei Hankachō

1989

Kumokiri Nizaemon poster
9.0

During the Kyoho period in the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, there is a gang of thieves active not just in Edo but also the Tokaido and the Nakasendo, and all across the Kansai region, stealing large sums of money with skillful techniques. They only target the very wealthy and never kill or injure people. They appear with the clouds and disappear like the mist. On the night that the beautiful Ochiyo is to become the bride of a dry goods dealer, a large amount of money hidden inside the shop is stolen. The gang disappears without injuring anyone. It was a two-year plan to marry Ochiyo off so that she could bring them in. The leader of this gang is Kumokiri Nizaemon, the greatest bandit of all time. He keeps a rein on his highly-skilled and notorious followers Nanabake no Ochiyo, Kinezumi no Kichigoro, Subashiri no Kumagoro, Ingakozo Rokunosuke and others.

Kumokiri Nizaemon

2013

Professional Killers poster
8.0

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

Professional Killers

1972