Acting

Franz Gruber

Born 1930-02-10

Acting credits

Greatest Boss of Japan poster
NR

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Greatest Boss of Japan

1970

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

Submersion of Japan poster
7.0

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions.

Submersion of Japan

1973

The X from Outer Space poster
5.2

The spaceship AAB-Gamma is dispatched from FAFC headquarters in Japan to make a landing on the planet Mars and investigate reports of UFOs in the area. As they near the red planet, they encounter a mysterious UFO that coats the ship's hull with unusual spores. Taking one of the specimens back to earth, it soon develops and grows into a giant chicken-lizard-alien monster that tramples Japan.

The X from Outer Space

1967

ESPY poster
5.4

Two Japanese spies with extrasensory powers go to Istanbul to stop a global agenda of assassinations.

ESPY

1974

ESPY poster
5.4

Two Japanese spies with extrasensory powers go to Istanbul to stop a global agenda of assassinations.

ESPY

1974

Terror Beneath the Sea poster
5.3

While covering a test of guided torpedoes, two reporters believe they see what appears to be a strange-looking swimming creature. They investigate the matter further and discover that there is a race of fish-men living under the sea. The fish-men capture the pair and keep them prisoner in their underwater city.

Terror Beneath the Sea

1966

Gamera vs. Jiger poster
5.7

When a giant stone statue on Wester Island is disturbed, the legendary monster Jiger appears and heads for Japan. Gamera tries to stop this new rival, only to be injured when Jiger lays eggs inside of him. As two boys in a submarine go on a dangerous quest inside of Gamera's body to save him, Jiger threatens the Expo '70 world's fair in Osaka.

Gamera vs. Jiger

1970

Genocide poster
5.1

A group of military personnel transporting a hydrogen bomb are left to figure out how and why swarms of killer bugs took down their plane; the answer is more deliriously nihilistic, and convoluted, than they could imagine.

Genocide

1968

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair poster
NR

Exciting fights between the police and a crime syndicate over the secret of poison gas.

Kamikaze Cop, The Poison Gas Affair

1971

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards

1967

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary poster
NR

A kidnapping occurred over a seven-million-dollar diamond that was sewn into his stomach. Takuya Nikaido, the hero of Kamideki, challenges the underground organization of fear. The final work of Asahi Kobayashi's "Ginza Whirlpool Child (Mitsugai)" series.

Whirlwind Call the Storm - Ginza Hoodlum's Diary

1963

Secret Assignment poster
10.0

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in the Foreign Ministry, under the code name “Cat's Eye”.

Secret Assignment

1967

Invitation to Jail poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Invitation to Jail

1967

No artwork available
NR

A German Film Award winning short drama.

A Beautiful Mask

1979