Acting

Yoshihiko Tabata

Place of birth

Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Blitz!! Strada 5 poster
NR

Battle between international criminal organizations and the secret team of international police formed against these organizations. An action drama incorporating element of children's hero program, Tokusatsu, such as characters with superhuman motor nerves and the appearance of super machines. "Strada 5" is the name of this secret team.

Blitz!! Strada 5

1974

Story of a Prostitute poster
6.6

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

Rape! 13th Hour poster
5.6

A serial rapist takes on a young protégé while being pursued by a homosexual gang.

Rape! 13th Hour

1977

Assault! Jack the Ripper poster
6.3

Two restaurant employees begin a sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Assault! Jack the Ripper

1976

Skin of Roses poster
5.0

Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the worst. Now, in order to pay off his debts to a yakuza loan shark, Ritsuko is forced to engage in private sex shows for the VIP clientele. After a year of these special shows, the loan is almost paid off.

Skin of Roses

1978

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

Film credits

1970s · 28 titles

Rape! 13th Hour poster
5.6

A serial rapist takes on a young protégé while being pursued by a homosexual gang.

Rape! 13th Hour

1977

Assault! Jack the Ripper poster
6.3

Two restaurant employees begin a sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

Assault! Jack the Ripper

1976

Skin of Roses poster
5.0

Ritsuko is a popular madame of a nightclub but, ever since her gangster husband got caught and imprisoned, her life has taken a turn for the worst. Now, in order to pay off his debts to a yakuza loan shark, Ritsuko is forced to engage in private sex shows for the VIP clientele. After a year of these special shows, the loan is almost paid off.

Skin of Roses

1978

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

Noble Lady Bound Vase poster
6.3

A cruel and sadistic landowner buys the daughter of a fallen samurai family to be his wife and subjects her to escalating sexual torture, especially after discovering that she has been harboring a secret passion.

Noble Lady Bound Vase

1977

Nomugi Pass poster
7.2

The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya which lies just beyond the Nomugi Pass. The women and girls worked in a hot, humid atmosphere without rest, and endured those conditions and sexual harassment to earn money for their poor families. Across the ocean, it was the great depression in America.

Nomugi Pass

1979

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss poster
6.0

A wandering tough biker girl aids a female delinquent gang in their battles against an all-male Seiyu group over a fixed boxing match.

Stray Cat Rock: Delinquent Girl Boss

1970

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland poster
4.4

A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland

1973

Secret Honeymoon: Assault Train poster
4.1

After a bungled robbery attempt, two thugs kidnap a bride on her wedding day.

Secret Honeymoon: Assault Train

1977

The Naked Seven poster
6.3

Scantily clad female warriors battle thieves to save a small village. Director Yasuharu Hasebe crossed the Seven Samurai legends of Shichinin No Samurai with his own popular Naraneko Rokku series and dressed it up with some of the most popular softcore pinup queens of the day.

The Naked Seven

1972

Kindan: Seifuku no modae poster
4.0

A high school girl has a secret crush on her older cousin. When he has an accident mountain climbing she decides to give herself to him. He roughly tries to take advantage of her pure love and she runs away. Later she discovers that an older woman has been paying him for his intimate attentions.

Kindan: Seifuku no modae

1976

Attacked!! poster
4.6

A policewoman is attacked, handcuffed and raped while on night patrol. Rather than report the incident, she decides to find and punish the rapist herself.

Attacked!!

1978

Ah! That Pep Squad poster
4.0

Life in the pep squad is all about harsh discipline. Seniors are "Gods", juniors are "Humans", sophomores are "Slaves" and freshmen are treated like "Trash". One sunny day, two freshmen are entrusted with the task to dry out the squadron's flag; the most cherished and symbolic item of the squad. When they accidentally burn a hole in the flag with a cigarette, they blame Aota. Aota attempts to take full responsibility by committing "harakiri", but changes his mind during the process – a deep stab to the stomach has inspired him with a better idea.

Ah! That Pep Squad

1976

Blood for Blood poster
7.0

The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.

Blood for Blood

1971

Wet Sand in August poster
6.0

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

Wet Sand in August

1971

Okasareru poster
4.3

A husband runs a jewelry store, supported by his serious and chaste wife. It was an ordinary and peaceful marriage. One day, the husband was threatened by a man acting like a yakuza and wanted to sell smuggled, irregular jewelry at the store. When the husband could not refuse complications ensued.

Okasareru

1976

Burning Desire poster
10.0

Oshichi (Setsuko Ogawa), the daughter of a green grocer, is only seventeen years old but is known as one of the most beautiful girls in Edo. She is betrothed to Sakubei (Tatsuya Hamaguchi) but does not love him. One day, the whole city is flooded by one of the worst rain storm in its history. Oshichi, and her parents are given shelter at a temple where she meets Kichisaburo (Ryuji Mori), a young priest. It is love at first sight for both of them. The storm finally abates. Oshichi's parents decide to return to their home on the following day. That night, Oshichi gladly gives herself to Kichisaburo but they are found by her mother who warns them never to divulge their secret. Learning that her plan to move up the date of her marriage to the rich pawnbroker's son, Oshichi feels that she can never be united with Kichisaburo unless she takes things into her own hands.

Burning Desire

1972

Step on the Gas! poster
8.5

Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...

Step on the Gas!

1970

Man & Woman Sexology: Private Lessons poster
8.0

One day, Hara Nobuo witnessed his father assaulting Tokiko, whom he loved as a surrogate mother. Tokiko then committed suicide. As Nobuo grew up, he was still burdened with this horrible trauma and became sexually impotent. His friend Junichi tried to cure Nobuo's impotence. Then one day, Nobuo rescued Sachiko from being about to being attacked in a park. Since then, the two were rapidly drawn to each other...

Man & Woman Sexology: Private Lessons

1974

Apartment Wife: Rainy Day Affair poster
4.3

On a rainy night, the lights in the windows of the apartment complex go out one by one. Chiaki Onda (Junko Miyashita) was waiting for her husband, Hajime (Akira Hanagami), who came home late tonight. Dinner is cold and the children are already asleep. A rift had already formed between Chiaki and Hajime, and sex was nothing more than a means of fulfilling Hajime's sexual desires, and there was no joy in it. An attraction to her classmate's driver awakens...

Apartment Wife: Rainy Day Affair

1977

International Stewardess: Erotic Flight poster
4.7

Many are the romantic stories of beautiful stewardesses who have dreamed and became modern Cinderellas. Yumi, though, has no such dreams. She loves Shimada, a very ordinary young man and hopes to marry him one day. However, during the flight to Tokyo, the Petroleum Minister of a certain country sets eyes on Yumi, the loveliest girl ever hired by JAL, and is more than pleased with what he sees. When Yumi is approached, she declines instantly but everyone seems to gang up to bend her will to theirs and soon the newspapers report that Yumi has accepted the Petroleum Minister's proposal.

International Stewardess: Erotic Flight

1976

Ame no meguri ai poster
NR

Japanese drama film.

Ame no meguri ai

1977

Call Girl: Lust Cage poster
7.0

A former call girl who is now married to a sick older man is drawn into adultery with deadly consequences.

Call Girl: Lust Cage

1978

Ryōjoku: Komasu poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Ryōjoku: Komasu

1979

Female Coed: Sexy Dynamite poster
NR

Nikkatsu Roman Porno.

Female Coed: Sexy Dynamite

1972

Izumi Daihachi no okashikko poster
2.0

No synopsis available yet.

Izumi Daihachi no okashikko

1978

Maruhi anaba joho: Hinba no toiki poster
10.0

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

Maruhi anaba joho: Hinba no toiki

1973

(Maruhi) Shôsha Jôhô: Onna Kaishime Urioshimi poster
NR

Nikkatsu Roman Porno

(Maruhi) Shôsha Jôhô: Onna Kaishime Urioshimi

1973

1960s · 24 titles

Story of a Prostitute poster
6.6

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the sensitive Mikami, Narita's direct subordinate. Seijun Suzuki's Story of a Prostitute is a tragic love story as well as a rule-bending take on a popular Taijiro Tamura novel, challenging military and fraternal codes of honor, as seen through Harumi's eyes.

Story of a Prostitute

1965

The Sands of Kurobe poster
7.0

Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.

The Sands of Kurobe

1968

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

Cruel Gun Story poster
6.7

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Cruel Gun Story

1964

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 poster
7.0

Goro wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko, 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

Fighting Elegy poster
7.0

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Fighting Elegy

1966

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

Fight of the Gamblers poster
6.0

Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.

Fight of the Gamblers

1963

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

Love and Desire in the Night Mist poster
NR

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

1966

The Elder Sister poster
9.0

Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.

The Elder Sister

1969

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

Aniki poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Aniki

1962

Ex Convict: Sword Storm poster
NR

1969 yakuza movie.

Ex Convict: Sword Storm

1969

Shin yūkyōden poster
NR

In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving hot-blooded men. However, their slight clumsiness is a flaw, but they are extremely strong in fights, and there's no one who can match them. They are head over heels for Osen-san. They are both desperately unwilling to yield even if the other is a brother.

Shin yūkyōden

1966

Love Eternal poster
NR

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.

Love Eternal

1966

The Reckless One poster
NR

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe from Omura Sangyo. Kosuke's partner Kumagoro investigates and finds out that Hasebe, who killed the head of the Muraoka clan, made Takehara disappear in order to keep him silent. The third film in the series.

The Reckless One

1967

Solo Traveler poster
NR

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

Solo Traveler

1962

Joe of Aces: Give and Take poster
NR

Against the bosses of the underworld that dominate Yokohama, Kobe, and Hong Kong, ace Joe, who plays an invincible gunman, shows off his transcendent gunplay! The third installment of the business series.

Joe of Aces: Give and Take

1961

The Rambler in the Sunset poster
NR

The young rambler, Shinji Taki, with his guitar arrives a hot spa town at the foot of Mount Aizu Bandai. Of course he solves the problems in the town while encountering the sinister rival, Masa "the pistol guy".

The Rambler in the Sunset

1960

A Torrent of Life poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

A Torrent of Life

1962

Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo

1961

Jūdan no arashi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jūdan no arashi

1962

涙でいいの poster
NR

1969 Japanese movie

涙でいいの

1969

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