Kenji Imai

Acting

Kenji Imai

Born

1932-03-31 (94)

Place of birth

Kanagawa, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

64 titles

Known for

Film credits

1990s · 5 titles

1970s · 36 titles

Raping! poster
4.9

A woman on her way to Tokyo is repeatedly raped by various men she encounters on the highway.

Raping!

1978

Graveyard of Honor poster
6.7

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.

Graveyard of Honor

1975

Yakuza Graveyard poster
6.6

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.

Yakuza Graveyard

1976

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf poster
6.3

A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day.

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

1979

Sympathy for the Underdog poster
7.1

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Sympathy for the Underdog

1971

Sometimes... Like a Prostitute poster
4.9

A man with a medical condition and a guilty past becomes obsessed with a simple minded girl he finds in a park. His wife is not thrilled when he brings her home.

Sometimes... Like a Prostitute

1978

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die poster
7.0

The ninth and final film in the Contemporary Tales of Chivalry series.

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Traitor Shall Die

1972

Japan's Don poster
7.2

A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Japan's Don

1977

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers poster
6.8

The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations

Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers

1972

Black Panther Bitch M poster
5.3

An assassin trained as a ninja carries the code name M. Hayami is a yakuza boss and a divorced father who is not allowed to come near his young daughter Mutsumi from his ex-wife Kazuko. In the big port city of Yokohama, M targets Hayami, who has angered the president of his group.

Black Panther Bitch M

1974

Third Generation Boss poster
8.0

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Third Generation Boss

1974

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life poster
9.0

A reporter is framed for murder while investigating organized crime. Upon being released from prison the plan for his revenge unravels.

A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life

1970

Eight Men to Kill poster
6.7

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despite a desperate search the gold has not been found, causing officials of the Tokugawa bakufu to call on their most skillful secret agent, Shikoro Ichibei.

Eight Men to Kill

1972

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape poster
5.8

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

1971

A Yakuza Has His Way poster
9.0

The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family crest, Seikichi Shimamura sets out with his henchmen on a journey to acquire the crest of a local bankrupt family. The local Iwahashi clan and the fishermen fought over the construction of the industrial complex, but when Seikichi learned that the Seiyu-kai was behind the Iwahashi clan, he sided with the fishermen...

A Yakuza Has His Way

1972

Woman His Prey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Woman His Prey

1972

The Homeless poster
7.8

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the acquaintance of a would-be prostitute. They help her escape and decide to guide her on her quest for sunken contraband somewhere off the coast.

The Homeless

1974

The Last Samurai poster
7.6

The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.

The Last Samurai

1974

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

1971

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom poster
6.2

Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline brigade and corrupt politicians over the murder/suicide of one of their friends. They're approached by a blackmailer (Tsunehiko Watase) who promises to help them exact vengeance in exchange for setting up a corrupt local politician, and aided by a independent Yakuza biker chick (Reiko Ike).

Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom

1973

Karate Bullfighter poster
6.7

Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He reluctantly returns to karate for a final showdown against the students of a rival school.

Karate Bullfighter

1975

Human Target poster
4.0

At midnight, Yamabe, a killer, escapes from prison. Two years before, bribed by a narcotic smuggler, Yamabe killed a real estate broker. As he was being arrested by detective Negoro, the detective's bullet struck Sakuko, Yamabe's girl friend who attempted to protect him, and crippled her. When Yamabe was sent to prison, Negoro cared for her and they fell in love. Sakuko asked him to marry her, but Negoro was reluctant to take the killer's sweetheart from him. Learning of the relationship of his girl friend and the detective, Yamabe had pledged revenge.

Human Target

1971

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School poster
6.2

Girl Boss Ruriko and her cellmates escape from a greedy corrupt reform school that's more interested in cheating the government out of money than reformation. Each having their own reasons for escaping, they go their separate ways. With the help of a young mechanic, who's also on the lam, Ruriko tries to realize her dream of leaving the island of Japan behind. But the authorities are always one step behind her...

Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School

1973

The International Gang of Kobe poster
5.7

In 1947, in Kobe, Japan, a local street gang fights for their survival when its turf is overrun by United States occupation forces and international gangs.

The International Gang of Kobe

1975

Quarreling with Yakuza poster
5.0

Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.

Quarreling with Yakuza

1973

The Machine Gun Dragon poster
6.5

Ryu, a low life thug, along with his mother, steals a shipment of drugs. Now with his machine gun and a gang of hoodlums, he must face the yakuza and the mafia.

The Machine Gun Dragon

1976

The Tattooed Hitman poster
6.2

The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody is more skilled in the arts of dealing death, can the tattooed hitman fend off the entire Japanese mafia as he searches for the man who wants him dead?

The Tattooed Hitman

1974

Winter's Flower poster
6.5

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno kept sending letters to Youko, disguising as an uncle in Brazil. 15 years later, Kanno is released. He is determined to live legitimately, however the Yakuza has not forgotten his wicked deed!

Winter's Flower

1978

The Okinawa War of Ten Years poster
6.2

After World War II, when Okinawa was under control of the United States, the local yakuza prospered. But when Okinawa is returned to Japan, the mainland yakuza tries to take over; the local yakuza tries to compete. Now sides are drawn among the local yakuza guys who used to be best friends since their childhood, and brother fights brother. It results in the biggest yakuza war in Okinawa.

The Okinawa War of Ten Years

1978

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82 poster
6.0

Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is found dead outside of his 30 floor office building. With an apparent suicide note as evidence, local police conclude the case as a suicide. Mika’s assignment may have ended in failure, but her mission has just begun...

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82

1979

The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers poster
7.0

Upon his release from prison, Masa (Bunta Sugawara) is disappointed to not be picked up by his brother Katsu (Tamio Kawaji). After hitching a ride on a bus full of old women, Masa finds out that Katsu tried to fake a car accident and get some money for Masa to live on after prison. Together, the two decide to blackmail the woman (Yoko Horikoshi) who hit Katsu, who happens to be the daughter of a rich company president (Seizaburo Kawazu). 6th film in a series of 8.

The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers

1973

Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story poster
2.0

High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, marijuana, gang members and rape.

Teenage Years: Keiko’s Story

1979

Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando poster
8.0

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…

Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando

1972

The Yakuza Code Still Lives poster
8.0

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

The Yakuza Code Still Lives

1976

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps poster
9.0

A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.

Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps

1975

The Gambler's Counterattack poster
8.5

Aiba is a gang boss who has just got out of jail, and finds everything has changed. His old gang has broken up, and only a few people still respect him. So he becomes a consultant to another gang who are about to be clobbered by a much larger gang moving in from out of town. Aiba proves a crafty tactician, and does very well at playing gangs off against each other in order to save the smaller gang. His advice is not always taken by those he tries to help, but he is generally proved right.

The Gambler's Counterattack

1971

1960s · 18 titles

Tale of Japanese Burglars poster
7.0

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.

Tale of Japanese Burglars

1965

Watch Out, Crimson Bat! poster
6.9

A young female samurai comes upon a dying messenger and agrees to deliver the scroll he was carrying to its destination. However, unbeknownst to her, the scroll is actually a formula for a new kind of gunpowder. An evil clan that is planning to overthrow the Emperor is also after the scroll, and they try to take it from her.

Watch Out, Crimson Bat!

1969

New Prison Walls of Abashiri poster
6.5

Former soldier, Suehiro Katsuji, fights violent gangs and powerful Chinese merchants during the post-war period in Japan.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri

1968

Dash to the Sun poster
NR

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.

Dash to the Sun

1966

Organized Violence II poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Organized Violence II

1967

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy poster
6.3

[Period covered: 1637-1651] This is one of the most complicated plots of any of the Shinobi no Mono films! This film tells the story of Saizo’s son, Kirigakure Saisuke, who after seeing his father die at the Battle Of Shimabara, grows up to be an expert ninja. Before he dies, “Mist” Saizo tells his children Saisuke, and Yuri that they are not really brother and sister. She, in fact, is the daughter of the late lord Sanada Yukimura, and must be saved from the shogun’s forces. In the chess match of spy versus spy, can Saisuke defeat the shogun’s chief strategist, Matsudaira Izunokami at his own game? Showing many exciting ninja tactics, it is not to be missed.

Shinobi No Mono 6: The Last Iga Spy

1965

Police Precinct Part 12 poster
NR

In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay. The dead body of a woman is inside. Since the trunk was shipped from Osaka Tennoji Station, the murder investigation headquarters were established in Tokyo and Osaka

Police Precinct Part 12

1960

No artwork available
NR

A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.

The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy

1961

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman poster
NR

Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of the Tama River. The ugly behavior of adults hidden in the name of social welfare is exposed by the investigation. 16th work from the popular series "Keishicho Monogatari".

Police Precinct: 15 Year Old Woman

1961

Mid-August Commotion poster
NR

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General Staff of the Konoe Division on the eve of the end of the Pacific War.

Mid-August Commotion

1962

South Pacific Waves Are High poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

South Pacific Waves Are High

1962

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 World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity poster
NR

An upstanding young man who is popular with the ladies takes on a corrupt group of men in his company.

The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Eternity

1960

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2 poster
7.5

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family. When the Soda attacks the Sakaki and double-crosses him, with sword in hand, Hidejiro seeks brutal retribution.

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

1966

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town poster
6.5

Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town

1969

No artwork available
NR

A story about the nature of office workers today.

Tale of a Company Boss 3

1961

A Fishwife's Tale poster
NR

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological father who has fallen victim to an evil plot orchestrated by those who would take over his successful business.

A Fishwife's Tale

1961

Women Doing Time poster
NR

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Women Doing Time

1966

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