Acting

Seijiro Takano

Known for

Acting

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Pigs and Battleships poster
7.1

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Pigs and Battleships

1961

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

The Champion poster
6.7

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date.

The Champion

1957

Break Down that Wall poster
7.5

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Break Down that Wall

1959

Underworld Beauty poster
5.9

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.

Underworld Beauty

1958

The Man with a Shotgun poster
6.5

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

The Man with a Shotgun

1961

Film credits

1960s · 20 titles

Pigs and Battleships poster
7.1

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Pigs and Battleships

1961

The Man with a Shotgun poster
6.5

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.

The Man with a Shotgun

1961

Wharf Temperament poster
NR

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the ship, and a young docker, whom he loves like a younger brother.

Wharf Temperament

1961

Let's find your sweetheart poster
NR

Tetsuo, the captain of the rugby team, who was preparing for the university entrance exams, starts working to earn money for his mother's surgery after she was involved in a hit-and-run accident, giving up on furthering his education. During this time, a relative's college student named Ikuko visits him and introduces him to her grandfather, Tatsunosuke. Tatsunosuke, a wealthy man, asks Tetsuo to take over his business, but...

Let's find your sweetheart

1967

Fresh Leaves poster
7.0

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.

Fresh Leaves

1962

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu poster
NR

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu

1965

Confession of a girl: Purity poster
9.0

The film depicts the life of a high school student today, touching on issues of purity, sports, higher education, and employment, through the pursuit of love and sex between a high school senior soccer player and a female student in the same class.

Confession of a girl: Purity

1968

Hageshī kawa poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Hageshī kawa

1962

The Storm over Arabia poster
8.0

A young man travels to Egypt and becomes embroiled in an independence movement by chance. Produced entirely on location overseas, which was groundbreaking at the time.

The Storm over Arabia

1961

No artwork available
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Wakai tsume ato

1962

Homecoming poster
NR

Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.

Homecoming

1964

No artwork available
NR

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

A Windmill, Tulips and Love

1966

Hitotsu no inochi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Hitotsu no inochi

1962

Me o tsubutte tsuppashire poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Me o tsubutte tsuppashire

1962

Pursuit poster
NR

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

Pursuit

1961

Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Keiji monogatari Tōkyō no meiro

1960

Youth A Go Go! poster
NR

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

Youth A Go Go!

1966

Traces of Lead poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Traces of Lead

1962

Yami wo saku kuchibue poster
NR

A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of an artificial lake.

Yami wo saku kuchibue

1960

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

金語楼の俺は殺し屋だ

1960

1950s · 14 titles

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

The Champion poster
6.7

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s father. He lost a title match five years ago as he was besotted by Natsuko, but Eikichi actually cannot give up the dream of the championship. One day, he meets Shuntaro Fuma, who is a punk kid but a promising boxer, and realizes the dream that he himself could never fulfill. Then, they together start to train with the aim of the title. Mari Shiraki is an up-and-coming ballerina under the patronage of Eikichi as well. Eikichi forbids Shuntaro and Mari to be romantically involved with someone during their training, however, they start to go on a date.

The Champion

1957

Break Down that Wall poster
7.5

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Break Down that Wall

1959

Underworld Beauty poster
5.9

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he returns to his haunt to make good by friend who took a bullet for him, he is diverted by the greedy boss Oyane and his insatiable taste for Miyamoto's precious stones.

Underworld Beauty

1958

A Secret Rendezvous poster
4.5

After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.

A Secret Rendezvous

1959

Who is in the Background? poster
NR

The "Ginza Whirlwind" (Akira Kobayahsi) smashes a counterfeiting ring. Second in the "Ginza Whirlwind" series.

Who is in the Background?

1959

Tomorrow is Another Day poster
NR

The story of three brothers who struggle to shake free of the father's ties to the yakuza underworld. A star vehicle for the popular singer/actor Yūjirō Ishihara.

Tomorrow is Another Day

1958

Satan's Town poster
10.0

A yakuza boss and his right-hand, Hawasaki, escape from prison. the film concentrates on their relationship, emphasizing loyalty and thier eventual betrayal, enroute they get involved in money trafficking, a cop killing and horse racing scams before the inevitable tragic ending. A patch-work production.

Satan's Town

1956

When a Man Risks His Life poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

When a Man Risks His Life

1959

Oyae no hatsukoi sensei poster
NR

A hilarious comedy where newly appointed teacher Oyae shows off her unusual plays as she fights alone against a group of five bad boys.

Oyae no hatsukoi sensei

1959

Zesshou poster
NR

The story of the tender love between Junki, the son of a wealthy landowner, and Kayuki, the daughter of a forester, who decided to unite their destinies against their parents' wishes. Neither war nor years of separation could kill this love. It was only cut short by Kayuki's tragic death.

Zesshou

1958

The Temptress and the Monk poster
8.0

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.

The Temptress and the Monk

1957

Joshiryōsai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Joshiryōsai

1957

おヤエの身替り女中 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

おヤエの身替り女中

1959