Acting

Masayuki Kawamura

Acting credits

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

Smashing the 0-Line poster
6.3

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?

Smashing the 0-Line

1960

The Warped Ones poster
7.1

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

The Warped Ones

1960

But the Flesh is Weak poster
7.3

A woman who grew up in a prestigious household, begins to have an affair outside the marriage.

But the Flesh is Weak

1957

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami

1962

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

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Otoko to otoko no ikiru machi

1962

Intimidation poster
7.2

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.

Intimidation

1960

Ponkotsu oyaji poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Ponkotsu oyaji

1962

I Am Waiting poster
6.5

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

I Am Waiting

1957

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

The Cards Will Tell poster
NR

A 1960 crime film

The Cards Will Tell

1960

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

1961 Japanese movie

Ore wa toppu-yada: kao no nai bijo

1961

Red Pier poster
6.5

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

Red Pier

1958

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

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

Bōkyō no umi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Bōkyō no umi

1962

Nuki uchi fūraibō poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Nuki uchi fūraibō

1962

I'll Kill the Women poster
NR

A unique action-packed drama that tells the story of a Yakuza man who craves blood like crazy, unaware that he has fallen into a trap set by his younger brother.

I'll Kill the Women

1958

The Sky Is Mine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sky Is Mine

1959

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jiken kisha: Kenjû kashimasu

1962

事件記者 影なき侵入者 poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

事件記者 影なき侵入者

1962

Drunken Ghost poster
NR

A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.

Drunken Ghost

1958