Goichi Yamada

Acting

Goichi Yamada

Born — Died

1933-02-10 — 2012-10-13

Place of birth

Setana, Hokkaido, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

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4.0

When Nizaemon Kumogiri, a major thief quits his job as a thief, he has two more big jobs planned in order to obtain a huge sum of money to enable his many subordinates scattered all over the country to live out the rest of their lives. First, he targets Matsuya, a medicine wholesaler in Nagoya and seduces the master of the shop by using his female subordinate, Nanakake. He then calls upon Sanji, a skilled locksmith to Nagoya, but the bandit Yagura no Fukuemon who is plotting to intercept the thief plots to extract Sanji for a large sum of money. Furthermore, Abe Shikibu, the chief of the firebrand bandit reformatory who is obsessed with Nizaemon's arrest, sends his men to Nagoya.

Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit

1991

Carlos poster
6.0

V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

Carlos

1991

Scorpion: Double Venom 2 poster
4.1

Nami Matsushima has escaped from the prison to which she was sentenced in Scorpion, but is now obsessed with tracking down the--don't laugh--one-armed man who murdered her younger sister fifteen years ago. Nami is certainly no great action heroine, and the plot at times makes little sense, climaxing with a coincidence more ridiculous than any Shakespeare ever used. For complicated reasons, Nami uses her medical knowledge to break into a women's prison as staff physician. There, as in the previous movie, the convicts wind up naked awfully frequently.

Scorpion: Double Venom 2

1998

Yamada baba ni hanataba o poster
9.0

Yamada is the old mistress of a prestigious all-girl high school, who finds a natural enemy in Kamizaki, an outgoing first-year student. However, during Yamada's blind date, their bodies are inexplicably switched

Yamada baba ni hanataba o

1990

Mahjong Madness : 10 Years Early! poster
NR

Idol vehicle Mahjong flick

Mahjong Madness : 10 Years Early!

1993

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 9 titles

Female Teacher poster
2.6

A female teacher is raped by a gang of students in her school. The repercussions of this lead to scandal, blackmail and murder.

Female Teacher

1977

The Street Fighter poster
6.8

Takuma Tsurugi takes on the government, the police, the mafia and an international ring of kidnappers who aim to dispossess a beautiful young heiress of her millions.

The Street Fighter

1974

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode poster
7.2

While Hirono is in prison, his rival Takeda turns his own crime organization into a political party, whose two executives stir up new tensions in their thirst for power.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode

1974

A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun poster
8.0

Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he meets the wild and beautiful Natsu.

A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun

1979

Third Generation Boss poster
8.0

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Third Generation Boss

1974

The Karate Man and the Spy poster
6.0

In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a famous Karate and Kempo master.

The Karate Man and the Spy

1974

Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal poster
8.0

A comedy farce depicting the noise that occurs when two unemployed circus participants discover a debt bond in a basket with parrots, which they received instead of pension money. At that time, Hiromi Go and Kirin Kiki, who were gaining popularity, play the main roles, demonstrating an exquisite combination.

Crocodile, Parrot and Fur Seal

1977

Ame no meguri ai poster
NR

Japanese drama film.

Ame no meguri ai

1977

Double Suicide at Nishijin poster
8.3

Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.

Double Suicide at Nishijin

1977

1960s · 29 titles

New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

New News Reporter: The Trap of the Big City

1966

The Woman Gambler poster
10.0

Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. In a fierce gambling den where rough men clash like sparks, two female gamblers vie for the same man in a high-stakes, best-of-seven showdown—from which only one will emerge victorious. Amid the tense atmosphere, Natsue, a highly skilled card dealer, gracefully reveals her hand with the flick of her slender fingers. At that precise moment, across the table, Takiko’s face goes ashen—she’s just lost the fateful game her lover had wagered his fortune on. The next day, Takiko and her boyfriend attempt a double suicide in despair, but she survives alone. Consumed by twisted emotions toward Natsue, a man named Isobe manipulates Takiko. Under his influence, Takiko seduces Tagami—who is Natsue’s fiancé—setting the stage for a dangerous and tangled web of love, revenge, and deceit.

The Woman Gambler

1967

A Monk in the Big City of Edo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Monk in the Big City of Edo

1965

Facing to the Clouds poster
NR

A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema joins Tsūkai-kai, a group of young people who respect her late father's political ideas. With the assistance of Tsukai-kai, Takema eventually uncovers the political scandal related to postwar compensation which led to the murder of Reiko's father.

Facing to the Clouds

1962

青春のお通り poster
NR

1965 Nikkatsu movie.

青春のお通り

1965

Blood End poster
6.3

Sentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine. He is befriended by Kada Gentaro, a leader in the Mito Tengu group, which plans to overthrow the shogunate.

Blood End

1969

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu

1962

Obon's Dipping Contest poster
NR

Comedy based on a popular manga.

Obon's Dipping Contest

1961

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

3 Dolls and Baby Gang poster
7.0

Based on the comic by Fuyahiko Okabe.

3 Dolls and Baby Gang

1961

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab poster
10.0

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

Million Dollar Smash-and-Grab

1961

New News Reporter: Hill of Murderous Intent poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

New News Reporter: Hill of Murderous Intent

1966

Young Boss poster
7.5

After a yakuza boss is assassinated by a rival, his naval officer son returns home to take over the gang.

Young Boss

1965

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū poster
NR

Comedy movie

Ōwarai Jiro chō ikka: Sanshita nitei kenjū

1962

A Rampage Full of Dreams poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

A Rampage Full of Dreams

1962

A Sky Full of Tears poster
6.0

Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued Akiko, a girl who had passed out in a car accident. Ahead of him was the bustle of Tokyo. He suddenly met Akiko during a noisy party with friends. He tried to persuade Akiko, who wanted to become a singer, to return to the village, but it didn't work. One day he invited Akiko to play in Yokohama. When they returned to childhood and talked about their dreams, they felt love for the first time. Meanwhile, returning home, Yoko turned her jealousy on the two of them, and announced the death of Shunsuke's mother...

A Sky Full of Tears

1966

Children of Izu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Children of Izu

1962

Obon, The Moll Dipper poster
10.0

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga.

Obon, The Moll Dipper

1961

Gone in the Rain poster
NR

Ayako (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is a free-willed college girl who shares a room with Takako and Kimie. They each have a clear vision of what they want from their career and love life. Soon, their room share takes a turn, when ideals begin to clash with reality.

Gone in the Rain

1963

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Sararīman monogatari - Taiki bansai

1963

Seinen no isu poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Seinen no isu

1962

Kusa wo karu musume poster
7.0

1961 Japanese movie

Kusa wo karu musume

1961

Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Sararīman monogatari: Teki wa ikuman aritotemo

1962

The Hunter's Diary poster
4.8

Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...

The Hunter's Diary

1964

Young Boss: Prison Release poster
4.8

The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

Young Boss: Prison Release

1965

事件記者 影なき侵入者 poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

事件記者 影なき侵入者

1962

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Sararīman monogatari shin'nyū shain dai ikka

1962

Ponkotsu oyaji poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Ponkotsu oyaji

1962

Series credits

Tales of the Bizarre poster
7.8

Inspired by American TV movies like "Hitchcock Theater" and "The Twilight Zone," the show features multiple works with Tamori as the storyteller and actors as the main characters. While horror and supernatural themes are predominant, a variety of genres like comedy and drama are also produced. Most episodes, however, have a bad ending.

Tales of the Bizarre

1990

Mayuko hitori poster
NR

Kano is known as a "cocoon child" whose father is an agriculturist. Her mother disappeared when she was little and since then Kano has been wondering why her mother left her thus changing the shape of her life.

Mayuko hitori

1971

Tabiji poster
9.0

The 7th NHK Asadora. Starring Tadashi Yokouchi in a narrative about an employee of the national railroad living through 50 years of modern history with his wife.

Tabiji

1967

Yôi don poster
NR

A struggling Korean veteran comes to terms with the fact that he is actually a caterpillar. I just made this up.

Yôi don

1982

Heaven and Earth poster
7.3

The story chronicles the life of Nagao Kagetora.

Heaven and Earth

1969

Kenkaku Shōbai poster
10.0

Kohei Akiyama, a popular master swordsman, and his son Daijiro live in the town of Edo in good faith. While running a dojo, Daijiro and his father find themselves wrapped up in a series of events with the town's people.

Kenkaku Shōbai

1973

A Samurai's Sorrow poster
10.0

A Japanese period drama broadcast in prime-time in 1984, based on Goseki Kojima and Kazuo Koike 's manga of the same title. Kainage Mondo is a secret child of Tokugawa Yoshimune and skilled swordsman. His job is a part to test food for poison for Yoshimune. He was on a journey but he goes to Edo to see Yoshimune. The Owari han have longed for the post of shogun and try to murder Yoshimune, in order to get shogun's post. Fuki is a kunoichi of Kōka. She tries to murder Yoshimue but she comes to like Mondo and eventually starts working for Mondo and Yoshimune. Mondo protects Yoshimune's life from Owari han and other enemies.

A Samurai's Sorrow

1984

Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima poster
NR

a 3-part TV drama series featuring Reiko Takashima

Dangerous case file of female lawyer Yuriko Mizushima

1997

Kininaru Yomesan poster
NR

A bride arrives at the Shimizu household, where the seven members of the family live as they please. However, the groom, the youngest son of the family, is going to study alone in the USA, and the bride is left alone in the eccentric house.

Kininaru Yomesan

1971

No artwork available
NR

Fuji drama specials based on the eponymous manga by Shotaro Ishinomori.

Sabu to Ichi Dorimono Hikae

1981

Late Night Salute poster
NR

Stories about encounters, interactions, and human drama set in a late-night convenience store where diverse people gather.

Late Night Salute

1986