Acting

Densuke Mitsuzawa

Known for

Acting

Credits

50 titles

Known for

Youth of the Beast poster
6.9

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

Youth of the Beast

1963

His Highness Surabaya poster
NR

Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend to be a king of a remote, undiscovered island, and becomes a media sensation.

His Highness Surabaya

1955

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

Cell No. 8 poster
NR

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Cell No. 8

1956

The Three Faces poster
10.0

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi, promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Tokyo Station. Meanwhile, Shinagawa Station's crowded with repatriates. Upon returning to their homeland, their lives have changed dramatically. Daizo works as a railway construction worker. Eiji has established himself as a boxer. Kenichiro's become a gangster. In 1955, the day of their reunion is approaching. Now it is a matter of whether the three will be able to meet each other at the platform of Tokyo Station, as they had agreed on back in 1950.

The Three Faces

1955

The Rambler Goes North poster
NR

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

The Rambler Goes North

1962

Film credits

1970s · 5 titles

1960s · 29 titles

Youth of the Beast poster
6.9

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

Youth of the Beast

1963

The Rambler Goes North poster
NR

In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

The Rambler Goes North

1962

Hageshī kawa poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Hageshī kawa

1962

The Rambler Rides Again poster
10.0

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.

The Rambler Rides Again

1960

The Plateau Man poster
NR

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

The Plateau Man

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

My Hometown is the Wild West poster
NR

George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had helped Tom around the time of World War I, and to perform some act of kindness in Japan using $300 pocket money. This was to test whether George was a suitable boy to inherit Tom's YES Ranch.

My Hometown is the Wild West

1960

The Sound of Waves poster
7.0

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest and most difficult man on the island. Despite their differences in class, they begin to meet and rumors spread of them having an illicit affair. Soon after, Shinji jumps into a stormy sea to help a ship in distress. The vessel turns out to be owned by Hatsue's arrogant father, who now becomes an understanding and sympathetic parent and allows the two lovers to marry.

The Sound of Waves

1964

The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass poster
6.6

On summer vacation, university student Shintaro gets involved with a magic troupe as they travel from festival to festival.

The Wind-of-Youth Group Crosses the Mountain Pass

1961

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

Gazing at Love and Death poster
7.0

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the hospital. There it transpired that the only way to save her life was to sacrifice an eye and part of her face. The operation seems a success. Later, however, her other eye becomes affected. She feels she must let the boy go, and yet she depends so much upon his devotion.

Gazing at Love and Death

1964

Standing Towards the Great Forest poster
NR

Strife between competing lumber mills.

Standing Towards the Great Forest

1961

Itsudemo yume o poster
NR

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

Itsudemo yume o

1963

Danger Pays poster
7.0

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs will now need a counterfeiter to make the bogus bills, they each decide to cash in on it by selling them the idea that they need Sakamoto, the best counterfeiter in Japan. A seesaw game unfolds between the three men as each tries to outdo the other two in handing over Sakamoto for one million yen to Hijikata, the big boss, who intends to make counterfeit money with the stolen paper. A little belatedly, they realize it needs their combined forces to outwit Hijikata and they raid his place together. Outnumbered, however, they are thrown into a basement room and the gas is turned on. Certain death stares them in the face, but the three men are not ones to take things lying down....

Danger Pays

1962

Red Bud and White Flower poster
7.0

A high school boy and girl in the midst of their youth try to get their parents to remarry.

Red Bud and White Flower

1962

The Gambling Monk poster
NR

One summer day, the chief monk of the Hojuin Temple dies. Harumichi rushes back to town hearing about his brother's death and requests for a grand funeral. He had been unwilling to take over the family business and had chosen a life as a middle school teacher far away from home, but considering the circumstances, he changes his mind. As the new chief of Hojuin, Harumichi scrambles around day after day for donations. He has kept strictly to the straight and narrow, until he passes a bicycle race track where the sounds of cheering fans induce him into a new way of life...

The Gambling Monk

1963

Notorious Bastard poster
NR

When Tornado Joe is wrongly accused of distributing counterfeit banknotes, he gets on a mission to clear his name and challenge the mastermind behind this scheme.

Notorious Bastard

1963

A Torrent of Life poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

A Torrent of Life

1962

Wakai futari poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Wakai futari

1962

Mexico Drifter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mexico Drifter

1962

Rambling in the Sea poster
NR

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

Rambling in the Sea

1961

Tokyo Mighty Guy poster
6.8

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and dashing good looks bring in the women as well as unwanted trouble, while an explosive political scandal builds around his girlfriend’s business...

Tokyo Mighty Guy

1960

Traces of Lead poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Traces of Lead

1962

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women poster
NR

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

1963

Shōjo poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Shōjo

1961

The Man With Starry Eyes poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Man With Starry Eyes

1962

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa poster
7.0

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa

1964

Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Shashō monogatari tabi wa michidzure

1962

The Famous Wanderer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Famous Wanderer

1961

1950s · 16 titles

His Highness Surabaya poster
NR

Hisaya Morishige is Kyutaro, a nuclear physicist and his twin brother, Eiji, a con man. Eiji finally hits on his most elaborate scheme yet, to pretend to be a king of a remote, undiscovered island, and becomes a media sensation.

His Highness Surabaya

1955

Cell No. 8 poster
NR

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

Cell No. 8

1956

The Three Faces poster
10.0

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives in the Burma Campaign, namely Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi, promised to meet again five years later at the platform of Tokyo Station. Meanwhile, Shinagawa Station's crowded with repatriates. Upon returning to their homeland, their lives have changed dramatically. Daizo works as a railway construction worker. Eiji has established himself as a boxer. Kenichiro's become a gangster. In 1955, the day of their reunion is approaching. Now it is a matter of whether the three will be able to meet each other at the platform of Tokyo Station, as they had agreed on back in 1950.

The Three Faces

1955

The Valley Between Love and Death poster
8.0

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

The Valley Between Love and Death

1954

Man Who Causes a Storm poster
6.8

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of a popular jazz band, his brother appeals to their manager who has the power to make him a star. In a graphic portrayal of love, betrayal and success, Shoichi brews up a storm with a 'rat-a-tat-tat' on the drums.

Man Who Causes a Storm

1957

No artwork available
9.0

Japanese drama film.

The Motherless

1955

Women's House poster
6.0

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.

Women's House

1954

Pure Emotions of the Sea poster
9.0

A romantic adventure tale about a young guy working on a whale-hunting vessel and his love for a childhood sweetheart.

Pure Emotions of the Sea

1956

Passport to Darkness poster
7.5

A jazz bandleader, falsely accused of murdering his girlfriend, tries to stay one step ahead of the police as he dives into Tokyo's sin-city in search of the real killer.

Passport to Darkness

1959

The juvenile poster
NR

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

The juvenile

1955

The Maid's Kid poster
8.3

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.

The Maid's Kid

1955

Joshiryōsai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Joshiryōsai

1957

Frankie's Aliens poster
NR

Dr. Kinoshita, whose rocket experiments had been a series of failures, discovers a strange flying saucer zooming through the night sky at super speed. He contacts the newspaper about it, but the editor dismisses him, saying he's gone mad and doesn't take him seriously at all. This is the imaginative sci-fi comedy "Frankie 14," featuring a groundbreaking and innovative story with flying saucers of unparalleled rarity and the appearance of artificial satellite people produced from single cells.

Frankie's Aliens

1957

The Maid Oyae Meets A Ghost poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Maid Oyae Meets A Ghost

1959

Frankie Bûchan no Aa gunkanki poster
NR

The day has come for recruits to enlist in the Japanese Marine Corps. The recruits, who have left the free world to enter this strict military life, look nervous. Monma Santaro (Frankie Sakai), who grew up in Edo and is small but smart, and Mamada Gosaku (Toshiyuki Ichimura), who was born in Tohoku and has a strong 'zuzu' dialect, have also been called up.

Frankie Bûchan no Aa gunkanki

1957

Drums Love and Dreams poster
NR

A side show snake man who dreams of becoming a drummer tries to save a blind flower girl.

Drums Love and Dreams

1956