Matasaburô Niwa

Acting

Matasaburô Niwa

Born

1934-08-20 (92)

Known for

Acting

Credits

37 titles

Known for

Kamen Rider poster
6.4

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Kamen Rider

1971

Kamen Rider poster
NR

Takeshi Hongo is a promising young man with a passion for motorcycle racing. However, his dreams are suddenly ruined when he gets kidnapped by Shocker, the evil secret organization planning to dominate the world. After being remodeled into a cyborg, Takeshi escapes and swears to protect the world from the inhuman monsters.

Kamen Rider

1971

Ninja, A Band of Assassins poster
6.4

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

1962

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter poster
7.0

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

1961

Buddha poster
10.0

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

Buddha

1961

Zatoichi on the Road poster
6.9

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Zatoichi on the Road

1963

Film credits

1970s · 2 titles

1960s · 32 titles

Ninja, A Band of Assassins poster
6.4

Warlord Oda Nobunaga seeks to unite a fractured Japan. A young man trained in the arts of ninjitsu is manipulated by a ninja master into attempting to assassinate the warlord before he completes his task.

Ninja, A Band of Assassins

1962

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter poster
7.0

Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.

Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter

1961

Buddha poster
10.0

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

Buddha

1961

Zatoichi on the Road poster
6.9

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in the middle of a bloody turf war.

Zatoichi on the Road

1963

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold poster
6.9

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen while in transit to the governor he is accused and sets out to find the money and clear his name.

Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold

1964

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry poster
7.5

Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

1965

Destiny's Son poster
6.8

In Edo-period Japan, Shingo is born the son of an assassin who was executed for murdering her lord’s concubine. Decades later, his adoptive family is massacred for keeping the secret. Armed with an unbeatable swordfighting technique, Shingo embarks on the path of the masterless samurai in search of vengeance and a path beyond his own ignominious origins.

Destiny's Son

1962

The Blind Menace poster
6.9

This is the story of a blind masseur who tricks people, steals, and kills; he is the anti-Zatoichi.

The Blind Menace

1960

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

1962

Koga's Messenger poster
5.0

The mysterious Koga Ninja crushes the villains who are trying to take over the inheritance of the Omi castle owner using various means! A sword and witchcraft, a mystery and revenge swirl around the mystery of the hood, in the demon tower, in the underground castle, and at the bottom of the lake!

Koga's Messenger

1960

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure poster
5.8

Wandering samurai Nemuri Kyoshiro (Raizô Ichikawa) finds a bulls-eye on his back after befriending the shogunate's tightfisted financial adviser, Asahina, who's earned the wrath of the shogun's self-indulgent daughter for cutting off her allowance. The enraged princess promptly hatches a scheme to have Asahina bumped off -- along with his protector, Kyoshiro. Shiho Fujimura also stars in this installment of the enormously popular film series.

Sleepy Eyes of Death 2: Sword of Adventure

1964

The Old Temple Well poster
9.0

Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.

The Old Temple Well

1961

Tabiwa Oiroke poster
NR

Will the assassin take my life or will a beautiful woman take my chastity? Or will a beautiful woman take your chastity? On the Tokaido Highway of Flowers, a beautiful swordsman is in peril! Tokaido is a journey of women's peril! Pink Kumudo no Kenjidoshu! A swarm of beautiful women chases after him! The forest of white blades that ambushes! Tokaido is in full bloom!

Tabiwa Oiroke

1961

Bronze Magician poster
6.9

A story loosely based on the affair between Empress Kōken-Shōtoku and the monk Dōkyō, set during the Nara period (710–794 A.D.).

Bronze Magician

1963

Shinsengumi Chronicles poster
6.7

As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a samurai. However, as his involvement grows, reality and idealism come into deadly conflict.

Shinsengumi Chronicles

1963

Third Generation's Loyalty Offering poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie. Remake of Mori's 1942 original movie

Third Generation's Loyalty Offering

1962

Samurai Save The Virgin poster
7.0

A gripping historical drama full of suspense and a mysterious bewitching mood. A puzzle of a turbulent era in which various characters fall into a maelstrom of events - a pretty girl, a strange beggar woman, a charming thief, a clever detective, the famous magistrate Toyama Saemon no jo, they all struggle to unravel this mystery of the white bell, which provoked the sudden disappearance of two beautiful women caught in one place at the same time at midnight.

Samurai Save The Virgin

1960

Yamaotoko no Uta poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yamaotoko no Uta

1962

Teppo Yasu no Shogai poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Teppo Yasu no Shogai

1962

Oja sando gosa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Oja sando gosa

1960

Otoko no meigara poster
NR

A unique literary work depicting the crisis in the love and physical relationship of the ordinary Shimura couple.

Otoko no meigara

1961

Penitentiary Brothers poster
NR

Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.

Penitentiary Brothers

1969

Her Hidden Past poster
7.0

Adaptation of a famous Kyouka Izumi novel. Set in the early 1900's, it tells the story of the impossible love between a young scholar a beautiful geisha.

Her Hidden Past

1962

Straw hat of Itako poster
10.0

A film about young wandering Yakuza. Yukio Hashi's first film role.

Straw hat of Itako

1961

The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark poster
NR

The hairpin murdered a young girl. Detective Zenigata Heiji begin to investigate. Suddenly a murder case turns into a case of smuggling.

The Casebooks of Zenigata Heiji: The Beautiful Shark

1961

Lord Tadanao poster
8.8

No synopsis available yet.

Lord Tadanao

1960

Shikaku yashiki poster
10.0

1961 Japanese movie

Shikaku yashiki

1961

Hell's Assassin poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Hell's Assassin

1962

No artwork available
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Zenigata Heiji Case Files: Enma's Nightly Ledger

1961

Yûrei koban poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yûrei koban

1960

Tōkaidō chakkiri musume poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tōkaidō chakkiri musume

1960

Kimagure karasu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kimagure karasu

1960

Series credits