Acting

Mitsuhiko Kurosu

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Acting

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43 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 22 titles

I loved you, loved you, loved you so much poster
NR

A coming-of-age entertainment film set to the tune of the hit song of the same name, depicting the friendship between a young photographer who believes in tomorrow and strives to live a bright and healthy life, and his three daughters.

I loved you, loved you, loved you so much

1966

Thirteen Times a Loser poster
NR

Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group has retaliated by killing its leader and seizing territory. Upon his release, he embarks on a revenge campaign.

Thirteen Times a Loser

1969

Biographies of Killers poster
NR

1969 Nikkatsu yakuza movie

Biographies of Killers

1969

Gate of Flesh poster
6.6

In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining tenuous friendships and a semblance of order in a world of chaos. But when a renegade ex-soldier stumbles into their midst, lusts and loyalties clash, with tragic results. With Gate of Flesh, visionary director Seijun Suzuki delivers a whirlwind of social critique and pulp drama, shot through with brilliant colors and raw emotions.

Gate of Flesh

1964

Cruel Gun Story poster
6.7

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

Cruel Gun Story

1964

Fighting Elegy poster
7.0

Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.

Fighting Elegy

1966

Retaliation poster
5.9

Emerging from a stint in prison, yakuza lieutenant Sumukawa discovers that his gang has disintegrated. An ambitious type, he quickly hooks up with another gang who promise him a prominent position if he helps them deal with a rival family. But bonds are made to be broken, and pledges of loyalty soon give way to competition, betrayal and — naturally — retaliation.

Retaliation

1968

Outlaw: Gangster VIP poster
6.7

Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP

1968

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji

1963

Outlaw: Heartless poster
6.8

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Outlaw: Heartless

1968

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 poster
7.0

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2

1968

Love and Desire in the Night Mist poster
NR

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

Love and Desire in the Night Mist

1966

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Burūtaun aoi machi no ōkami

1962

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

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha

1962

Love Eternal poster
NR

A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.

Love Eternal

1966

Rusty Pendant poster
NR

1967 Japanese movie

Rusty Pendant

1967

Season of Tears poster
8.0

Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next day,” his reporting becomes a string of scoops, his love life blossoms, and everything starts going his way, until the news from tomorrow reports his aunt getting robbed and murdered!

Season of Tears

1969

The Call of Blood poster
5.8

Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.

The Call of Blood

1964

A Torrent of Life poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

A Torrent of Life

1962

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi poster
NR

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

Inochi Shirazu no Rokudenashi

1965

Wings of Dawn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wings of Dawn

1960

1950s · 14 titles

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gunkoku sakaba

1958

Tsuma koso waga inochi poster
NR

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

Tsuma koso waga inochi

1957

The Blue Sky Maiden poster
7.1

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

The Blue Sky Maiden

1957

No artwork available
NR

Even the beautiful international port of Yokohama has a seedy underbelly. An action thriller in which a newspaper reporter plunges into a den of vice to expose the smuggling and the prostitution.

Dai san hijōsen

1956

Mashiroki Fuji no mine poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mashiroki Fuji no mine

1954

Kōkōsei to satsujinhan poster
NR

A high school student who loves detective stories finds himself transporting a woman’s body in the middle of the night. A hilarious thriller about a group of six close friends who form a “Murder Club”.

Kōkōsei to satsujinhan

1956

Fires on the Plain poster
7.6

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte.

Fires on the Plain

1959

Punishment Room poster
6.9

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game.

Punishment Room

1956

The Precipice poster
9.0

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.

The Precipice

1958

Chūzaisho nikki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chūzaisho nikki

1957

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban poster
NR

A silk mill worker living through a dark and twisted youth… What is chastity? A powerful work that speaks to society through the anguished expression of a woman twisted by torment.

Toki no teizo: Sōshūban

1952

Training Ship of Yearning poster
NR

A youthful film filled with youth and passion, set against the backdrop of the ocean and filled with admiration for a dynamic young man and the heart of a girl whose eyes are filled with pure love!

Training Ship of Yearning

1956

Giants and Toys poster
7.1

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Giants and Toys

1958

The Lowest Man poster
9.0

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to kill him.

The Lowest Man

1958