Acting

Yasuo Itoga

Acting credits

A Colt Is My Passport poster
7.1

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A Colt Is My Passport

1967

Youth of the Beast poster
7.0

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Youth of the Beast

1963

The Man With Starry Eyes poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Man With Starry Eyes

1962

Tokyo Knights poster
7.0

A college student takes over the family business in the field of organised crime.

Tokyo Knights

1961

Intentions of Murder poster
7.0

The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.

Intentions of Murder

1964

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

Utau abarenbō poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Utau abarenbō

1962

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

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji

1963

Itsudemo yume o poster
NR

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.

Itsudemo yume o

1963

Jūdan no arashi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Jūdan no arashi

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

Cat Changed Into Tiger poster
NR

A life insurance agent has a drinking problem causing him to lose his company a fortune. He heads to another town to sell insurance, but to his surprise, the elderly are all healthy thanks to a special local sake. Along the way, he meets an eye-patch-wearing killer, which only confounds his misadventures.

Cat Changed Into Tiger

1962

The Bride is Fifteen poster
NR

Hanayome wa Jūgo-sai, directed by Mio Ezaki and distributed by Nikkatsu, stars Masako Izumi and Ken Yamauchi. The high-key pink background and casual photographic portrait embody Nikkatsu’s 1960s youth-film aesthetic. Clean, hopeful, and pop-oriented. The large white title, handwritten for a softer impression, injects playful energy that contrasts with the strict vertical text blocks. As Japan’s youth culture blossomed after the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, posters like this captured the spirit of romance and rebellion marketed to teenage audiences. The vivid color palette and carefree composition signal a stylistic shift from postwar black-and-white melodrama to the vibrant optimism of modern Technicolor cinema.

The Bride is Fifteen

1964

Stardust Wharf poster
8.0

Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in this bright and cheerful coming-of-age action film.

Stardust Wharf

1968

Shin yūkyōden poster
NR

In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving hot-blooded men. However, their slight clumsiness is a flaw, but they are extremely strong in fights, and there's no one who can match them. They are head over heels for Osen-san. They are both desperately unwilling to yield even if the other is a brother.

Shin yūkyōden

1966

Lost Love poster
6.4

At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local nuclear power-plant, are found tied-to on a beach, as if they intended to commit double suicide. Nogami, a reporter, begins to investigate.

Lost Love

1978

Kitakami Nocturne poster
NR

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and was taken in by Keisuke's parents, who had raised her as their own child. At the riverside when the cherry blossoms are falling, Keisuke, now enrolled in university, promises Shizuko that he will tell his parents about them at the start of the summer vacation. He then sets off for Tokyo...

Kitakami Nocturne

1961

He Killed Dad poster
NR

The lives of two brothers, Kunio and Akira Kasahara, are changed forever when their father is murdered. Kunio sets out on a manhunt to avenge his father and will stop at nothing until he finds the killer. Setsuko, Kunio's fiancée, is unable to keep up with the lunacy that Kunio stirs up and finds comfort with another man - his brother, Akira.

He Killed Dad

1961

Angel and the Outlaw poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Angel and the Outlaw

1962

Rusty Pendant poster
NR

1967 Japanese movie

Rusty Pendant

1967

Ningen ni kakeruna poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ningen ni kakeruna

1964

Kidō sōsahan Minato no ryakudatsu-sha poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kidō sōsahan Minato no ryakudatsu-sha

1962

Satsujin-sha o oe poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Satsujin-sha o oe

1962