Directing

Keiichi Ozawa

Born

1933-01-05 (93)

Place of birth

Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Outlaw: Black Dagger poster
6.5

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.

Outlaw: Black Dagger

1968

Gambler's Dilemma poster
NR

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

Gambler's Dilemma

1969

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 poster
7.0

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

1968

Gambling Den Desire poster
NR

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!

Gambling Den Desire

1970

Call of the Pistil poster
7.7

The directorial debut of Masaru Konuma, penned by Keiichi Ozawa using the pseudonym "Fuyuhiko Hagi". Masako is a journalist, and she is raped while researching a story. The rape causes her to develop amnesia, so her brother devises a novel way to get her memory back -- he has her boyfriend rape her again. It doesn't work, so the brother and boyfriend do more research, discovering that Masako was raped by an African-American soldier. As might be expected, they then hire a black GI to rape the poor girl yet a third time...

Call of the Pistil

1971

Shura ga Yuku 7 poster
NR

The 7th gangster action of men who continue to fight bloody battles in Tosa, Shikoku.

Shura ga Yuku 7

1998

Behind the camera

Outlaw: Black Dagger poster
6.5

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.

Outlaw: Black Dagger

1968

Gambler's Dilemma poster
NR

The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death.

Gambler's Dilemma

1969

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 poster
7.0

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

1968

Gambling Den Desire poster
NR

In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a travelling raven she meets on a whim. However, Koide, a businessman connected to the Masukawa clan, wants Setsuko to become his mistress... Setsuko puts aside her love and her regrets and bets on the greatest female challenge of her life!

Gambling Den Desire

1970

Call of the Pistil poster
7.7

The directorial debut of Masaru Konuma, penned by Keiichi Ozawa using the pseudonym "Fuyuhiko Hagi". Masako is a journalist, and she is raped while researching a story. The rape causes her to develop amnesia, so her brother devises a novel way to get her memory back -- he has her boyfriend rape her again. It doesn't work, so the brother and boyfriend do more research, discovering that Masako was raped by an African-American soldier. As might be expected, they then hire a black GI to rape the poor girl yet a third time...

Call of the Pistil

1971

Shura ga Yuku 7 poster
NR

The 7th gangster action of men who continue to fight bloody battles in Tosa, Shikoku.

Shura ga Yuku 7

1998

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin poster
6.6

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

1968

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin poster
6.6

On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin

1968

Outlaw: Kill! poster
6.9

Goro has always been a lone wolf. When he arrives at an industrial city in Keihin, there is certain restlessness in the air. The Iriezaki family and the Kanto Touyu-kai were in the midst of a territorial dispute. Goro was quick to notice, but had no intent to take sides. At a department store nearby, he sees an elevator lady being harassed by a couple of hoodlums. Goro decides to intervene. Unbeknownst to him, the hoodlums are Touyu-kai members – and the girl has strong ties with the opposing family.

Outlaw: Kill!

1969

Shura ga Yuku 13 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shura ga Yuku 13

2000

Heisei Zankeiden: Battered Slash! poster
NR

A 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

Kanto County Sex Unit poster
3.7

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Kanto County Sex Unit

1973

Haunted Samurai poster
8.2

When his sister commits suicide as a result of his actions, Rokuheita, an enforcer for the Yagyu ninja clan, considers his choices and eventually deserts the organization. Hunted by an army of bizarre shadow warriors, the target turns on his pursuers when he finds something worth fighting for.

Haunted Samurai

1970

Melodrama poster
NR

The film depicts the anguish of an arsonist as he approaches the statute of limitations.

Melodrama

1988

Morning of Ecstasy poster
7.0

A bored wife meets an old lover and starts an affair with him to see if it will bring back the same passion as they had in the past.

Morning of Ecstasy

1972

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies poster
9.0

Aboard a night ferry in the Inland Sea, Masaaki Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a young tough, who supplies hostesses to night spots, encounters Yuko, his ex-sweetheart. He considers himself a private underworld sort of policeman-in the com- munity of such women. Yuko, now a bar proprietress, is under the protection of Tahei Daigo, a sinister gang boss who in his quest for chances of good investments abroad plans to offer young girls to rich foreigners. Asked to gather attractive girls by Yuko, now Tahei's puppet, Masaaki collects many only to find them mysteriously missing...

Women's Police: Swirling Butterflies

1970

Expelled from the Kanto Mob poster
NR

In the late Taisho era. Umeshima Jinbei, the president of the Kanto Umeshima Kai, divided the area into the Kuroda family to the south and the Takeuchi family to the north in order to protect the security of Kame no Ii, which had opened up in place of the Yoshiwara brothel that had been burnt down in the earthquake, and had the Kuroda family rule their respective territories. Chichibu Yasaburo, the small head of the Kuroda family, had a good reputation as the mainstay of the family and was trusted by his boss Mankichi, but Furuno, who was in love with Mankichi's daughter Mie, who was in love with Yasaburo, informally informed the Takeuchi clan and took out Mankichi's seal and borrowed money from Takeuchi in the name of Yasaburo to line his pockets.

Expelled from the Kanto Mob

1971

Burning Skin poster
5.3

Shimako Yano once caused an accident in the car she was driving and left her husband, Kazuhiko, who was a passenger in the car, impotent, and she lives a life of frustration every day.

Burning Skin

1972

修羅のみち6 血染めの海峡 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち6 血染めの海峡

2003

Shura ga Yuku 6 poster
NR

Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between the eastern and western gangsters aiming for national domination.

Shura ga Yuku 6

1997

Shura ga Yuku 9 poster
NR

The 9th series of Violence Action that depicts the battle between this issue and Ino aiming at the top of the gangster society as a unit.

Shura ga Yuku 9

2000

Shura ga Yuku 11 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shura ga Yuku 11

2000

Kanto Drifter poster
9.0

Young man returns from prison and sets out to destroy the gang that killed his friends and boss of his former gang.

Kanto Drifter

1971

Pay Off Your Debt! poster
9.0

Asakura was told he could leave the gang if he killed Takahata, but he failed and was sentenced to two years. When he was released, the Oyane group was crushed, and instead, the emerging gangster Hokuyokai was in charge of the Oyane group's territory.

Pay Off Your Debt!

1970

修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

2004

修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

2004

Tale of the Crane Princess poster
NR

Oyamazumi Shrine still remains in Omi Island, surrounded by the Seto Sea. During the Warring States Era, a beautiful princess was born to the Ohori family, guardians of the shrine. Ohori was the chief priest of the shrine, and the princess was destined to be the leader of the Seto Sea pirates. Her name was Tsuru, and she was as brave as the ‘Dragon God’. While her birth was a gift from heaven, her life was filled with tragedy. This is an historical drama on a dynamic scale telling the story of Princess Tsuru, who rose to the post of admiral of the Mishima navy, as well as being a young woman watching her loved ones perish in the terrible wars of that time. Exciting battles and treacherous assassinations highlight this heartfelt tale of a young princess who must be as strong as a man in wartime, while still feeling the emotions of a woman.

Tale of the Crane Princess

1993

Profile of a Boss' Son poster
10.0

Four years ago, Teppei Hondo killed two people from the Shinwa group for the murder of his brother. After serving a 3-year prison sentence, he considered returning home, but his father, the boss of the Honda Group, told him to stay away for another year, so he went to sea. In the end, having returned, he again finds himself embroiled in a showdown between the yakuza.

Profile of a Boss' Son

1970

前科・仮釈放 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

前科・仮釈放

1969

Shura ga Yuku 12 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shura ga Yuku 12

2000

Shura ga Yuku 10 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shura ga Yuku 10

1999

Shura ga Yuku 10 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shura ga Yuku 10

1999

修羅のみち4 北九州代理戦争 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち4 北九州代理戦争

2002

Sanctuary in the Night poster
8.5

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Sanctuary in the Night

1973

Ex Convict: Sword Storm poster
NR

1969 yakuza movie.

Ex Convict: Sword Storm

1969

Love Affair in Purgatory poster
8.5

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Love Affair in Purgatory

1973

修羅のみち5 東北殺しの軍団 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち5 東北殺しの軍団

2002

修羅のみち3 広島・四国全面戦争 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち3 広島・四国全面戦争

2002

修羅のみち2 関西頂上決戦 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

修羅のみち2 関西頂上決戦

2001

Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy poster
NR

Rumors are circulating that the shogunate is losing control of some feudal domains. Lord Yagyu Munefuyu is assigned to deal with the problem and the rebellious clans will be crushed! Meanwhile, a former vassal of the Kazama clan is shot and killed. Moments later a second man is killed by a mysterious master swordsman. Matsudaira Choshichiro and his companions arrive at the crime scene and find a new type of repeating gun. The carved seal on the gun stock belong to the Saiga; a ninja clan abolished by the shogunate many years ago. The blame for the murders is placed on the Kazama clan. Are they guilty or is this a wise cunning plan by Lord Yagyu to be able to destroy the Kazama clan? Choshichiro sets out to reveal the truth and try to save the doomed Kazama clan! In his way are the Owari, Lord Yagyu and his ninja assassins, and the mysterious master swordsman! Will Choshichiro prevail against impossible odds...?

Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy

1984