Acting

Katsuo Tagawa

Born

1933-11-22 (92)

Known for

Acting

Credits

38 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 32 titles

The Hoodlum Brothers poster
NR

A crime film released in 1965

The Hoodlum Brothers

1965

Tale of Japanese Burglars poster
7.0

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Tale of Japanese Burglars

1965

Prison Boss poster
7.7

Rival gangs fight over ownership of bicycle race track.

Prison Boss

1968

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town poster
6.5

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

1969

Glorious Fights poster
7.2

A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.

Glorious Fights

1966

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

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san poster
NR

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor. Sado Masasaburo, the founder of Sado Masa, one of the oldest lumber merchants in Kiba, has recently become very old and ill, and his tomboyish daughter Nobuko, a native of Edo, cannot stand the methods of Tadayoshi, who has risen to prominence through unscrupulous business practices. In a thrilling period drama in which Hibari plays a chic and stubborn lumberyard girl who, together with her partner Takakura Ken, punishes an evil lumber merchant. A thrilling youth drama that combines familiar songs with the stubbornness and love of Hibari and Takakura.

Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

1961

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

Gambler's World 2 poster
NR

Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.

Gambler's World 2

1967

Police Precinct: Missing Person poster
NR

Two people disappeared, engineers of the companies Yamato Matsui and Koyama. The two worked overtime, and it is proven that they consumed alcohol together. According to the sushi restaurant employee who delivered an order around 9 p.m., the two were arguing loudly. Traces of blood were found at the scene, and it looks like a murder occurred. The Investigative Department begins an investigation… The 24th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari", which documents the activities of the First Investigation Division of the Capital Police Department.

Police Precinct: Missing Person

1964

Fateful Birthplace poster
NR

A sad love story between young Umihiko Kojima and a beautiful girl named Yukiko Shino.

Fateful Birthplace

1961

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind poster
NR

The third film in the Taro series, following "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity" and "The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush." Taro, who had painstakingly graduated from the University of Merchant Marine after six years, was on his way to work for Saikai Kaiun on a tourist ship on the Beppu route. He was in a euphoric mood, teasing a young lady playing golf on the deck, and helping the geisha Umeka who was being harassed by a drunkard, with his natural sense of justice, as the ship arrived at Beppu Port.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

1961

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mannen Taro and His Feminine Colleagues

1961

Organized Violence II poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Organized Violence II

1967

Organized Violence poster
6.5

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

Organized Violence

1967

Police Precinct Part 21 poster
NR

A burnt corpse of a man was found in Okutama. As a result of the investigation, it turns out that the criminal strangled the victim with a bandage, smashed his face with an oil canister and burned the body, trying to hide the identity of the victim. But the investigation establishes that the victim is a former criminal named Hisashi Sayama. According to Sayama's daughter-in-law, a man named Kitamura got him a job, so he left home with a copy of the family register. Trying to find the killer, the First Investigation Department is investigating all over the country, including Akita, Yokkaichi and Okinawa.

Police Precinct Part 21

1963

The Navy poster
NR

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from entering the navy while his friend is chosen instead. As time goes by, Takao becomes a painter and changes his mind about the meaningfulness of war and fighting, while his friend goes the opposite path. Meanwhile Takao's sister falls in love with Shinji.

The Navy

1963

Element of Surprise poster
NR

1963 Toei war / action film.

Element of Surprise

1963

Dissolution Rites poster
7.0

Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.

Dissolution Rites

1967

The Glamorous Ghost poster
7.0

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.

The Glamorous Ghost

1964

Tokyo's  Business District poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo's Business District

1962

Gambler's World poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gambler's World

1967

No artwork available
NR

Hibari Misora plays a singing guide, who is secretly in love, her fortunes turn for the worse when a gangster’s henchman hears her singing and takes a liking to her beautiful voice. The trouble starts when her family borrows money from the gangsters, setting off a series of incidents which lead to tragedy.

Hibari's Tale of Pathos

1962

Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave poster
6.0

TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP Japan Branch. Spycatcher J3 stands against TIGER's machinations.

Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave

1966

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze poster
7.0

1962 Japanese movie

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze

1962

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

1963

Zankokuna tsuki poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Zankokuna tsuki

1962

Akai kage no otoko poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Akai kage no otoko

1961

Police Precinct: Landfill No. 19 poster
NR

In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An autopsy showed that the victim was about 40 years old, 170 cm tall, had bad teeth, and had been strangled about a month ago. The police department begins an investigation, Detectives Hayashi and Kitagawa set out to investigate the origin of the rosary, and Detectives Nagata and Watanabe begin interviewing construction workers. In the end, it turns out that the rosary belongs to some new religion... The 19th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".

Police Precinct: Landfill No. 19

1962

次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々 poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々

1962

365 Nights poster
NR

A touching drama about a love triangle between a young architect, Koroku, and two women, Ranko and Teruko. Ranko comes from a wealthy family and is offering to repay Koroku’s family debts in exchange for marriage, but Koroku is in love with his landlord’s daughter, Teruko. Things are further complicated when the wicked Tsugawa takes interest in both women, for his own marriage.

365 Nights

1962

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush poster
NR

An upstanding young man’s racy adventure filled with conspiracies and love.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Rush

1960

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