Acting

Kōji Sawada

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Super Rescue Solbrain poster
8.0

After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.

Super Rescue Solbrain

1991

Special Rescue Exceedraft poster
8.6

To protect innocents from ever-evolving crime, three souls burn brightly! This is the story of the Special Emergency Investigation Unit, striving for love and kindness in the Earth of tomorow!

Special Rescue Exceedraft

1992

Special Investigation Robo Janperson poster
7.9

Special Investigation Robo Janperson was the 1993 installment in Toei Company’s Metal Hero Series. The series revolved around Janperson, a robotic detective who patrolled the streets of Tokyo and fought against three different underworld organizations who used super technology to subjugate the masses. Unlike most Metal Heroes, a monster-of-the-week was rarely shown and most of the villains are criminals akin to television police dramas. The name given to this series by Toei for international distribution is Jumperson.

Special Investigation Robo Janperson

1993

Graveyard of Honor poster
6.7

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Graveyard of Honor

1975

Big Bad Wolf poster
NR

1973 Toei film.

Big Bad Wolf

1973

Port Arthur poster
7.4

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (1904 - 1905). In the story dominated the character Lt Takeshi Kogyo (Teruhiko Aoi), teachers, and a reserve officer who became commander of the platoon and later company. At the same time monitors the conduct of the army commander general Nogi (Tatsuya Nakadai), which was commissioned of the emperor Matsuhito (Toshirô Mifune) to the conquest of the fort.

Port Arthur

1980

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1970s · 24 titles

Graveyard of Honor poster
6.7

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Graveyard of Honor

1975

Big Bad Wolf poster
NR

1973 Toei film.

Big Bad Wolf

1973

Sister Street Fighter poster
6.6

Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts school, including the powerful Sonny Kawasaka, for help in the inevitable battle royale.

Sister Street Fighter

1974

Violent Fraternity poster
8.0

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Violent Fraternity

1974

Violent Streets poster
6.8

With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.

Violent Streets

1974

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable poster
6.8

Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.

Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable

1973

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse poster
5.8

A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse

1975

The Executioner poster
6.6

Three men, the skilled ninja Ryuichi Koga, the deadly assassin and former drug detective Takeshi Hayato, and the criminal mastermind Ichiro Sakura work together to take out an infamous drug dealer.

The Executioner

1974

Deep Throat in Tokyo poster
4.4

Kumi Taguchi is a model who leaves her boxer boyfriend after he sustains an injury. She meets and quickly marries Hideo, the heir to a corporate empire. Hideo's father, Takehiko, lusts after Kumi. Takehiko sends his son away, ostensibly on a business trip, but actually so that he can be murdered by Takehiko's henchmen. Takehiko seduces Kumi, but is frustrated when she refuses to perform oral sex on him. Angered, Takehiko forces Kumi to undergo surgery in which her clitoris is transferred to her throat, thereby requiring that she engage in oral sex in order to have an orgasm. Hideo, the supposedly murdered son, returns having paid off his assassins. Hideo shoots and kills his father, but Kumi grabs the gun and kills Hideo so that she can inherit the family's fortune

Deep Throat in Tokyo

1975

A Kamikaze Cop poster
5.8

An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.

A Kamikaze Cop

1970

Run Truck Rascal, Run! poster
10.0

Momojiro and Jonathan go to Kochi on a ferry. On the ferry a singer called Yuka dropped her sheet music into the ocean. Momojiro helps her by diving in to collect the sheets for her and ends up falling in love.

Run Truck Rascal, Run!

1979

Dead Angle poster
7.3

Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Dead Angle

1979

Karate Warriors poster
6.8

Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Karate Warriors

1976

I Am A Man of Honor poster
9.0

The sixth film of the “Truck Yaro” series. Two long-distance truckers, Momojiro and Kinzo, travel around Japan in highly decorated trucks. In Kyushu, Momojiro falls in love again... this time with a beautiful college student Masako.

I Am A Man of Honor

1977

Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu poster
7.0

After serving 10 years in prison for murdering a rival boss, Tetsu is appalled to see his yakuza family overgrown and dysfunctional upon his release.

Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu

1977

The Wild Trucker poster
7.7

The comical adventures of two long-distance truck drivers, Momojiro and Kinzo, continue. Momojiro and Eizo help bring home the father of two young children in time to celebrate New Year’s together.

The Wild Trucker

1975

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police poster
5.9

Japan, 1946, just after the end of World War II. As the US occupation army patrols the dilapidated streets of Tokyo, a desperate and ambitious group of war veterans and gamblers struggle to take control of the Ginza district's underworld with the help of a deranged soldier.

A True Story of the Private Ginza Police

1973

The Ando Gang Documentary Film poster
6.5

This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

1973

A Single Flower Withered poster
NR

Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While at a red-light district in Chiba, Shiratori finds out that his sister is in Tokyo. However, things take turn for the worse as he gets into a fight with the local Handa gang...

A Single Flower Withered

1974

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder poster
6.8

A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.

Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder

1972

Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers poster
7.0

After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki family was always deserted. Ryūzaki, the boss, declared his retirement in response to the changing times. It was thought that Igarashi, who valued righteousness and principles and had the respect of others, would become the second-in-command. However, he was an annoying presence to Ryūzaki...

Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers

1970

Troops of Darkness poster
6.0

A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Troops of Darkness

1971

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate poster
6.4

An undercover cop insinuates himself into a yakuza family. Managing to avert an assassination attack on the boss he is assigned to kill a rival boss.

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate

1970

A Kawachi Rascal's Song poster
NR

Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...

A Kawachi Rascal's Song

1976

1960s · 7 titles

Gambler's World poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gambler's World

1967

Brutal Tales of Chivalry poster
7.4

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.

Brutal Tales of Chivalry

1965

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3 poster
7.5

Upon returning to his hometown of Nagasaki, recently released prisoner Tachibana Shinichi must rejoin the Asahi gang family in order to pay back a past debt. Trouble brews when the rival gang that was responsible for sending him to prison learns of his return. Left with no alternative to their constant harassment and threats, Tachibana decides to take them on.

Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

1965

The Private Police poster
7.5

After the war, Kijima (Bunta Sugawara) returns to Tokyo where he meets Ôba (Noboru Andô), an Ex-Kamikaze pilot, and the two ruffians gather hooligans to join their group. In Ginza, the Togawa gang have taken over Sakurada's territory. After several fights Kijima and Ôba gain control of the territory by chasing out the notorious Togawa Group in the name of Sakurada. But Kijima is arrested for assaulting an American soldier. A few years pass. Kijima has served his prison term and the sears of war have been erased from Ginza. Ôba is now president of a company specializing in collection of bad debts, cheque frauds and everything that means money. People call their organization the “Private Police,” and Kijima begins to work for Ôba. Now the Takegami gang waits a chance to seize the Ginza territory.

The Private Police

1969

A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw poster
6.7

Back after four years, Goro learns his younger brother's been thrown out of the gang and his girlfriend's married another man. It's payback time.

A Modern Yakuza: Humanity and Justice of the Outlaw

1969

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2 poster
8.0

Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.

Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

1965

Dash to the Sun poster
NR

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

Dash to the Sun

1966

Series credits

Super Rescue Solbrain poster
8.0

After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.

Super Rescue Solbrain

1991

Super Rescue Solbrain poster
8.0

After the Winspector police team leaves Japan to fight crime in France, Chief Shunsuke Masaki realizes he must create a new police team to defend Tokyo from crime. He creates Solbrain – a high-tech special rescue force, expert in missions requiring rescue and firepower. Its leader is Daiki Nishio, a rookie detective who can use the Plus Up command in his car to transform into SolBraver. Other members are Reiko Higuchi, also able to use the Plus Up command to transform into SolJeanne, SolBraver's female counterpart; and SolDozer, a yellow bulldozer robot.

Super Rescue Solbrain

1991

Special Rescue Exceedraft poster
8.6

To protect innocents from ever-evolving crime, three souls burn brightly! This is the story of the Special Emergency Investigation Unit, striving for love and kindness in the Earth of tomorow!

Special Rescue Exceedraft

1992

Special Investigation Robo Janperson poster
7.9

Special Investigation Robo Janperson was the 1993 installment in Toei Company’s Metal Hero Series. The series revolved around Janperson, a robotic detective who patrolled the streets of Tokyo and fought against three different underworld organizations who used super technology to subjugate the masses. Unlike most Metal Heroes, a monster-of-the-week was rarely shown and most of the villains are criminals akin to television police dramas. The name given to this series by Toei for international distribution is Jumperson.

Special Investigation Robo Janperson

1993