Bang-ho Cho

Acting

Bang-ho Cho

Born — Died

1956-11-19 — 1997-12-09

Place of birth

Osaka, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 16 titles

Door II: Tokyo Diary poster
6.2

Ai is a call girl that makes good money for what she does but there’s always at risk no matter how good the money is.

Door II: Tokyo Diary

1991

Hiruko the Goblin poster
6.3

A school was built on one of the Gates of Hell, behind which hordes of demons await the moment they will be free to roam the Earth. Hiruko is a goblin sent to Earth on a reconnaissance mission. He beheads students in order to assemble their heads on the demons' spider-like bodies. Hieda, an archaeology professor, and Masao, a haunted student, investigate the gory deaths.

Hiruko the Goblin

1991

March Comes In Like a Lion poster
6.6

Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover. Since he has no memory of his sister Ice, he obliges her. How long until his memory returns?

March Comes In Like a Lion

1991

Apartment Wife '98: Dangerous Affair poster
7.0

Voyeurism, eavesdropping, stalking, and sexual assault. Yuki, a newlywed living in a housing complex, finds her daily life gradually corrupted by abnormal sexuality... What kind of sex hell does this married woman fall into?! Yuki's past. A chance encounter with a man she met at the scene of a suicide attempt. After getting married, Yuki sealed that day away in her body and moved to a huge housing complex. However, the man from that time, Saito, appears and Yuki is embraced once again. Saito strangles Yuki. Yuki feels an abnormal excitement in the ecstasy of heading towards "death". But there was a man watching them. In exchange for a recording tape, Yuki is forced to undress and descends into a life of sex and degeneracy...

Apartment Wife '98: Dangerous Affair

1997

Like Grains of Sand poster
6.6

A coming-of-age story. Shuji, a Japanese teen, is falling in love with his friend Hiroyuki, however, Hiroyuki is attracted to Kasane, the new girl in their class.

Like Grains of Sand

1995

Skinless Night poster
8.5

A porn film director supports his wife and child while facing the complexities of the industry. Upon rediscovering an 18mm film he made as a student, he starts to question his life.

Skinless Night

1991

Eko Eko Azarak: Misa the Dark Angel poster
6.3

Misa Kuroi is a good witch, but wherever she goes, evil follows. When a dying girl appears out of nowhere shouting Misa's name, our heroine goes to work. Following the clues, Misa transfers to the prestigious Saint Salem School for Girls and joins the Drama Club. Soon all the girls depart for a mysterious Drama Camp, deep in the woods.

Eko Eko Azarak: Misa the Dark Angel

1998

The Human Chair poster
7.0

After seeing her husband off to work, the young author identified only as Yoshiko sets off to read the large collection of letters she received from other young authors. These are often letters containing samples of their work for critique. One large envelope contains a letter. The letter-writer does not provide his name. The letter is a confession of crimes. The letter-writer has no family or friends, and claims to be "ugly beyond description". He is a chair maker and loves his work and all the chairs he creates, even going so far as to claim some sort of intangible connection to his work.

The Human Chair

1997

The King of Minami: Planned Bankruptcy poster
8.0

#2 in the King of Minami series. The relentless Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda and his apprentice, Ryuichi, attempt to collect from a failed AV producer, setting into motion a complex series of events involving the yakuza, planned bankruptcy schemes and a wily stockbroker named Yasuda.

The King of Minami: Planned Bankruptcy

1992

No artwork available
NR

Story teller Kinya Aikawa serves as a guide in this horror drama series, which is presented in an omnibus format with two stories each based on the stories of people who have experienced horror. Kanako (Yasuko Sawaguchi) looks through the viewfinder of a second-hand camera she bought and sees a boy with a look of hatred on his face staring back at her. When she looks up, the boy is gone, and when she looks through the viewfinder again, she sees the boy staring back at her. Kanako is now haunted by the spirit of the boy and the adults who are close to him....

Mystery Experience Zone: Really Scary Stories: Ghost Photos sent to you & Ghost Detectives

1992

An Angel with Many Scars poster
8.0

An odd journey starts as Mitsuru, a private detective, and a boy, whom a dying mobster entrusts to him, decide to go to northern Japan in search of the boy’s mother, and the detective’s buddy Hisashi joins them later.

An Angel with Many Scars

1997

Mitabi no kaikyô poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mitabi no kaikyô

1995

No artwork available
9.0

Two girls decide to move in with two boys in an apartment in crowded Tokyo. As much as they all like each other initially, they cannot prevent a domestic disaster from occurring.

The Things We Liked

1997

Balloon poster
9.0

Youngsters find work as part-time festival street vendors and flourish in work, friendship and love.

Balloon

1990

Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku poster
7.0

Former hitman Ginya Yabuki (Riki Takeuchi) left the mafia and split somewhat contentiously with his longtime former partner. Years later, that same ex-partner has emerged as the head of a very dangerous crime syndicate and Yabuki is forced to confront his former partner, which may start an all-out war within the Tokyo Mafia.

Tokyo Mafia: Battle for Shinjuku

1996

How Old Is the River? poster
7.8

Three brothers, their father missing and tensions boiling, gather at their rural summer house; soon enough, they're unexpectedly joined by a female cousin.

How Old Is the River?

1995

1980s · 19 titles

Violent Cop poster
7.2

A detective breaks all rules of ethical conduct while investigating a colleague’s involvement in drug pushing and yakuza activities.

Violent Cop

1989

The Unspoiled Diamond poster
4.5

A college student has an affair with a married, middle-aged teacher.

The Unspoiled Diamond

1982

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor poster
6.6

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal expectations.

The Mosquito on the Tenth Floor

1983

Double Bed poster
5.1

Kato is a small time TV producer. He has a wife Masako, and a young son Taro. Kato also has a friend Yamazaki who he knew since college. Yamazaki has a girl friend Riko who lives with her younger sister Yuko who's an actress. Yamazaki is a lyric writer/womanizer and he starts to have an affair with Masako, but he's still going out with Riko.

Double Bed

1983

Yakuza Ladies 2 poster
7.8

Yuki, the wife of a leading member of the Domoto family, must assume her husband’s role as a yakuza boss while he serves out a prison sentence. As she grows into her new role, she manages to assert control and increase the influence of her organization. But when her husband is released from prison, she finds him a changed man, lacking the character necessary to be a powerful yakuza leader. Conflict ensues and their marriage is challenged by a desire for power.

Yakuza Ladies 2

1987

Tattoo poster
5.7

An ardent culture-vulture youth, previously charged for the murder of a woman when he was young, plans to hold hostage a local bank.

Tattoo

1982

No More Comics! poster
6.4

Stuck doing show-biz schlock, an investigative reporter stumbles on a scheme to swindle pensions through an attractive gold futures scam, a potential news-story.

No More Comics!

1986

Banned: Woman's Secret Pictures poster
4.7

A man spies on an upper class woman having an illicit affair and blackmails her for sex. But she’s not the delicate flower that she appears to be.

Banned: Woman's Secret Pictures

1983

Akuma no hitojichi poster
3.2

An office lady, heartbroken after a failed romance with her boss, visits her favorite villa to try and heal her wounds, attempting suicide. Suddenly, bank robbers, escaping their pursuers, break into the villa. She is assaulted by one of the three men, but her hatred for him eventually transforms into love, and she experiences the ultimate physical pleasure.

Akuma no hitojichi

1983

Taboo X Perversion poster
2.0

A young woman has feelings for her older cousin but he is obsessed with blonds. When a European temptress comes for a visit his fantasies come true. But he soon finds out that she likes it really kinky.

Taboo X Perversion

1985

Time and Tide poster
7.3

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

Time and Tide

1983

Empire of Kids poster
5.0

Following a stint in reform school, Ryu (Shinsuke Shimada) returns to his home, the Minami area of Osaka, accompanied by his new friend Ko (Takeshi Masu). He's greeted by his friends, Chabo (Ryusuke Matsumoto) and Ken (Bang-ho Cho). They seek to forge their own path through a multitude of rival gangs in Kita and Minami, including the Hokushin Alliance, backed by the yakuza, the Hope Association, and various other minor factions, including Zainichi Korean groups. What follows is a wild, fast-paced story of violence, revenge, betrayal, and discrimination, that never loses its sense of humor.

Empire of Kids

1981

Shunga poster
6.0

An envelope of obscene woodblock prints makes a perverse connection between a violent homeless boxer, a feckless husband and a wife with a past trauma.

Shunga

1983

Shoya no umi poster
9.0

A wealthy man has relationships with a married woman, an office lady and a high school girl. Two of them are friends, two are sisters and one leaves him frustrated.

Shoya no umi

1984

Zeccho shimai ochiru poster
3.7

Mika, who used to be a call girl, is being pursued by a man that brokers prostitution. Her mother Yoshimi and older sister Mayumi also sold their bodies. But now, Mayumi will marry Soejima, a trading company man. Mika is happy to have a respectable relative and starts a part-time job at a pachinko parlor...

Zeccho shimai ochiru

1982

Attack on a Bakery poster
6.9

Two young men are hungry, so they decide to rob a bakery. Adaptation of a short story by Haruki Murakami.

Attack on a Bakery

1982

Mijukuna Kahanshin poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mijukuna Kahanshin

1984

Anne's Lullaby poster
4.0

A single woman has a series of messy relationships while feeling that her maternal clock is running out.

Anne's Lullaby

1982

Empire of Kids: A Rowdy War poster
8.0

Sequel to Izutsu's Gaki teikoku

Empire of Kids: A Rowdy War

1981

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