Acting

Kenzô Kawabe

Acting credits

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him poster
8.0

Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

1966

Flame and the Code poster
NR

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Flame and the Code

1966

Rebellion of Japan poster
8.0

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.

Rebellion of Japan

1967

The Betrayers Out! poster
NR

Shochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on revenge. He runs into Chinese hoodlums, blackmailers and gold-smugglers. But he also aids and abets young lovers yet, despite his help, their love ends in tragedy and he tracks down his prey in Kobe.

The Betrayers Out!

1966

Face of the Dice poster
NR

Rumiko, the female boss from Kanto. The film is a fierce counterattack by a Yakuza woman against all men! It shows the power of a woman who fights, a woman who makes money, and a woman who explodes! More energy than in any male movie!

Face of the Dice

1966

He's the Witness poster
NR

Takuya witnesses the homicide of the detective leading an investigation into the murder of the chairman of the People’s Economic Association, and he disguises himself.

He's the Witness

1960

A Turning to Hell poster
NR

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

A Turning to Hell

1959

汚れた顔 poster
NR

1959 Japanese movie

汚れた顔

1959