Jōtarō Senba

Acting

Jōtarō Senba

Born

1937-03-25 (89)

Place of birth

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Red Angel poster
7.6

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Red Angel

1966

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage poster
7.1

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

1966

Secret Assignment poster
10.0

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Secret Assignment

1967

Zatoichi Challenged poster
7.0

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Zatoichi Challenged

1967

Woman Gambler and the Nun poster
7.0

Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Woman Gambler and the Nun

1968

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love poster
NR

Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love

1991

Film credits

1990s · 4 titles

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love poster
NR

Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love

1991

Kirikomi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kirikomi

1995

Tosei Burai poster
NR

Ryoji Minami, an elite trading company man, falls in love with Minako Kano, the daughter of the fifth president of the Kanto Kano family, overcomes obstacles, and has a wedding. A sudden misfortune befell Ryoji. On the day of the wedding, his father and daughter were killed by a bomb planted in a package. In anger and sadness with nowhere to go, Ryoji vows to take revenge on the bomber, and as the sixth head of the Kano family, confronts the Kyoei Alliance.

Tosei Burai

1995

Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga 2 poster
NR

One day, Matsuo comes across his classmate, Nanao Okuda, as she is about to jump off a footbridge. She explains that she was driven to attempt suicide by the overwhelming weight of her father’s debts and a break-up with her boyfriend. Deeply moved, Matsuo and Saga resolve to do whatever they can to help her. Just then, word reached them of a mahjong match between the Tenma-gumi and the Shuei-kai, with control of their territory at stake. Matsuo and Saga take on the role of stand-ins for the Shuei-kai and throw themselves into this life-or-death showdown!

Seikimatsu Bakuroden Saga 2

1997

1960s · 37 titles

Red Angel poster
7.6

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Red Angel

1966

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage poster
7.1

Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.

Zatoichi's Pilgrimage

1966

Secret Assignment poster
10.0

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Secret Assignment

1967

Zatoichi Challenged poster
7.0

Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.

Zatoichi Challenged

1967

Woman Gambler and the Nun poster
7.0

Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Woman Gambler and the Nun

1968

Zatoichi and the Fugitives poster
7.0

Zatoichi runs afoul of some evil fugitives, working for a corrupt law official.

Zatoichi and the Fugitives

1968

The Woman Dicer poster
7.0

Seventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The Woman Dicer

1968

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great poster
NR

The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.

Ōkuma Shigenobu the great

1963

Superexpress poster
8.0

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express

Superexpress

1964

Covered Wagon poster
NR

A Western-inspired film where a pair of traveling beekeepers odyssey by covered wagon from Kyushu, the southernmost of the Japanese archipelago's major islands, to Hokkaido, it's northernmost.

Covered Wagon

1960

Thoroughbred Women Gamblers poster
NR

Fourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

Thoroughbred Women Gamblers

1967

Love and Greed poster
7.8

Namiko is married, but has an infatuation with Ishizuka who runs a nightclub. The businessman is also planning on wrecking the company of Namiko's husband. As personal lives and professional careers intertwine and cross one another including a love triangle dangerously, the affair is taken up a notch following a murder.

Love and Greed

1964

School for Thieves poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

School for Thieves

1968

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier: Looting and Pillaging

1968

A Certain Killer poster
6.9

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

A Certain Killer

1967

Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Reputation: Invincible Notorious Men

1965

Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back poster
6.3

[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.

Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back

1966

Sentimental Mobsters poster
7.0

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!

Sentimental Mobsters

1963

Exterminate the Young Boss! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Exterminate the Young Boss!

1967

Escape Man poster
NR

1967 Daiei movie.

Escape Man

1967

Medal from the Devil poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Medal from the Devil

1967

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Quick Draw Outlaw: Man of the Great Plains

1961

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

1966

Dynamite Doctor poster
NR

Film by director Kenji Misumi

Dynamite Doctor

1966

Women's Prison poster
10.0

A prostitute and her stepfather are falsely accused of murder, imprisoned, sexually abused and tortured. The real murderer will be discovered - and the girl will take revenge.

Women's Prison

1968

Lips of Ruin poster
9.0

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as “Black Parking Lot”.

Lips of Ruin

1963

Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Reputation: The Two Notorious Men Strike Again

1965

The Crimson Plains poster
NR

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over the ranch, which is run by his wife alone, but then the rancher's best friend, Joji, appears and saves the day. This is one of a series of Japanese westerns starring Jo Shishido.

The Crimson Plains

1961

Order of Yakuza poster
8.0

Order of Yakuza

Order of Yakuza

1962

Fūshinraishin poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Fūshinraishin

1962

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys! poster
10.0

In this sizzling escapade, three irresistible vixens—Dump, Hip, and Bump—deliver a daring, alluring masterclass in mischief. Dump, a martial arts maven, combines lethal moves with an untamed sensuality, while Hip captivates with her razor-sharp wit and magnetic allure. Meanwhile, Bump’s sultry charm turns even the staunchest hearts to mush. Under Masako Sakamoto's provocative orders, they plunge into hedonistic debauchery at the “Dream National Assembly.” First, they seductively manipulate sauna sirens into high-stakes bets that pay off handsomely. Next, they incite wild, erotic revelry at a ghostly bar, unleashing an intoxicating tide of risqué abandon. Finally, their provocative presence ignites a deluxe key club with unbridled, seductive intensity, transforming scandal into a lush celebration of desire.

Dump, Hip, Bump: Give it to me Guys!

1969

Prison Release Loyalty Offering poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prison Release Loyalty Offering

1966

Black Speeding poster
NR

Takuya Tsuda is a cop who loves motorcycles. One day a speeding motorcycle seriously injures a child and his investigations lead Takuya to Akio Yazawa, the boss of the Sakamoto Motorcycle Club.

Black Speeding

1964

The Sister Gamblers poster
NR

Third film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.

The Sister Gamblers

1967

Ocean Floor Crime #1 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ocean Floor Crime #1

1964

Young Boss: Prison Release poster
4.8

The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

Young Boss: Prison Release

1965

Kanto Onna Gokudo poster
NR

Japanese crime film

Kanto Onna Gokudo

1969