Acting

Kōji Seyama

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

Known for

Branded to Kill poster
7.2

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Branded to Kill

1967

Kanto Wanderer poster
6.6

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.

Kanto Wanderer

1963

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

Sun and Stars poster
NR

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.

Sun and Stars

1962

Diamonds of the Andes poster
10.0

Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his fiancée Reiko.

Diamonds of the Andes

1968

Jungle Block poster
7.0

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

Jungle Block

1960

Film credits

1970s · 2 titles

1960s · 26 titles

Branded to Kill poster
7.2

After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.

Branded to Kill

1967

Kanto Wanderer poster
6.6

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of gang conflict, the Izu family (to whom Katsuta belongs) has their last gambling den taken over, and he seeks revenge. This brings him back into contact with a former lover who is also a card trickster - she is also Diamond Fuyu's sister, and is now married to Okaru-Hachi, who has mastered a clever card cheating trick called Okaru, which involves the deft use of mirrors.

Kanto Wanderer

1963

Sun and Stars poster
NR

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothers burning with masculine will and passion.

Sun and Stars

1962

Diamonds of the Andes poster
10.0

Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his fiancée Reiko.

Diamonds of the Andes

1968

Jungle Block poster
7.0

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.

Jungle Block

1960

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

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

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! poster
6.5

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

1963

Massacre Gun poster
7.2

Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji and aspiring boxer Saburo, the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.

Massacre Gun

1967

The Guitarist and the Rancher poster
NR

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.

The Guitarist and the Rancher

1960

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

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

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

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

The Rambler under the Southern Cross 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 under the Southern Cross

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

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

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

Whistling in the Darkness poster
NR

A 1961 crime film.

Whistling in the Darkness

1961

The Frozen Plains poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Frozen Plains

1962

The Famous Wanderer poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Famous Wanderer

1961

Man at the Bullfight poster
9.0

An unprecedented, extravagant, passionate film set in Spain and Southern Europe. It depicts the passionate Yujiro who risks his life to invite bullfighting.

Man at the Bullfight

1960

The Man With Starry Eyes poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Man With Starry Eyes

1962

Rambling in the Sea poster
NR

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

Rambling in the Sea

1961

Solo Traveler poster
NR

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

Solo Traveler

1962

Gambling Kitten poster
6.8

Arikawa runs a transport company. But this is only a front for his gambling house. Yuriko is a regular on the scene, and she is fascinated by the dice and the one who throws them. A year before, Yuriko's father died in mysterious circumstances; she decides to go in search of the truth.

Gambling Kitten

1965

1950s · 11 titles

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

The Human Cyclone poster
NR

The "Ginza Whirlwind" (Akira Kobayashi) uncovers a diamond smuggling operation led by a Chinese man behind the opening of the new nightclub "Monaco", and teams up with the daughter (Ruriko Asaoka) of a man the smuggler killed during the war. First in the "Ginza Whirlwind" series.

The Human Cyclone

1959

Break Down that Wall poster
7.5

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Break Down that Wall

1959

Called to the Stand poster
8.0

Chief editor Shiro Kamisaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide. The victim is a woman who's said to have had sexual relations with the defendant. Four intertwined witnesses: a critic, Shiro's employee, a singer, and his wife, are all called to the stand. His destiny now lies in their hands.

Called to the Stand

1956

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

We Live Today poster
NR

In a fictional mining city in northern Kanto, a Tokyo drifter named Shiro (Ishihara Yūjirō), caught in a conflict between two transportation companies, plays the role of both the good and bad guy.

We Live Today

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

The Shadow of Fear poster
NR

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors about the murder.

The Shadow of Fear

1956

Merciless Bullet poster
NR

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the Sawamura clan (Kaneko), who is with his mistress, impassively pulls the trigger of a pistol with a silencer. Kenji was hired by Sawamura's advisor, Matsumoto (Ashida). It was a cunning plan: eliminate Sawamura, sell the smuggling rights to the Hamasaki clan and make a profit. And for Kenji, the motive did not matter, as long as he was paid, his job was to kill opponents without a miss.…

Merciless Bullet

1959

No artwork available
NR

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

東京午前三時

1958

Drunken Ghost poster
NR

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

Drunken Ghost

1958