Shirō Yanase

Acting

Shirō Yanase

Born 1930-02-16 · Gunma Prefecture, Japan

Acting credits

Tattooed Life poster
7.2

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.

Tattooed Life

1965

A Colt Is My Passport poster
7.1

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A Colt Is My Passport

1967

Greatest Boss of Japan poster
NR

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Greatest Boss of Japan

1970

Tatsumaki kozō poster
NR

Tommy, a tornado boy who arrived at Arima Onsen in search of his father, whom he separated from when he was young, meets a girl named Eiko after driving away a group of thugs causing trouble at a variety show venue. Additionally, a drifter named Nanajo, impressed by Tommy's skills, approaches him with a story about a smuggling ship sinking off the coast of Kobe...

Tatsumaki kozō

1960

Smashing the 0-Line poster
6.3

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

Smashing the 0-Line

1960

Youth of the Beast poster
7.0

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Youth of the Beast

1963

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love

1962

Flowers in the rain poster
NR

A song-based action drama featuring hit songs by Hiroshi Inoue about a daughter who cries over an innocent crime and a young man who bravely stands up for the truth to help her.

Flowers in the rain

1960

Tokyo Knights poster
7.0

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Tokyo Knights

1961

Break Down that Wall poster
7.5

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Break Down that Wall

1959

The Symbol of a Man poster
7.0

A Japanese intelligence officer faces personal crises in the years preceding the Manchurian conflict.

The Symbol of a Man

1963

Showdown in Gangland poster
NR

Rivalry between two young gangster groups who seek to extend their influence.

Showdown in Gangland

1970

Wakai futari poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Wakai futari

1962

The Dragon of Macao poster
8.0

Ryu (Akira Kobayashi) sets foot on the Yokohama port with a suitcase filled with 300 thousand dollars. He was sent by a jewelry company in Hong Kong to retrieve a certain diamond that was stolen from them. The "Himalayan Star" is worth couple hundred million yen and unbeknown to Ryu, it now lays in the hands of Aizu (Jo Shishido), the infamous ”Pirate of the Tokyo Bay."

The Dragon of Macao

1965

100 Gamblers poster
7.0

Set in Kyushu during the early Showa period, the son of a boss who is killed after a greedy boss takes over his territory, takes over and takes revenge on his nemesis.

100 Gamblers

1969

The Guys Who Put Money on Me poster
7.5

An unofficial sequel to Million Dollar Match (1961) which also starred Koji Wada as a young energetic boxer. This story deals more with betting action surrounding a boxing match, concentrating mostly on the high-powered Yakuza gambling dens.

The Guys Who Put Money on Me

1962

Carmen from Kawachi poster
6.2

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she can move in to Yoko’s house to take lessons, while making a living at the same time.

Carmen from Kawachi

1966

The Day of Youth poster
8.0

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.

The Day of Youth

1960

Frankie the Milkman poster
8.5

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.

Frankie the Milkman

1956

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon poster
NR

This typhoon spectacle is bursting with the charm of tough guy Yujiro, a student of architecture at Hokkaido University, who takes on a conspiracy involving a mysterious accidental death at a construction site.

The Man Who Rode the Typhoon

1958

Blind Woman's Curse poster
6.3

Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue Akemi’s gang in revenge, leaving a trail of dead Yakuza girls, their dragon tattoos skinned from their bodies.

Blind Woman's Curse

1970

Tomorrow is Another Day poster
NR

The story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.

Tomorrow is Another Day

1958

Everything Goes Wrong poster
6.7

Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.

Everything Goes Wrong

1960

The Debt of Blood poster
NR

1967 Nikkatsu film.

The Debt of Blood

1967