Tsunehiko Watase
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1944-07-28
Locus Natus: Yasugi, Shimane, Japan
Et ut: Watase Tsunehiko
Killer's Hit List
A 1970 entertainment action masterpiece directed by Teruo Ishii. A companion piece to another Ishii-directed film from 1970, also starring Watase,...
release : 1970.01.31popularis : 0.587
Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
release : 1972.11.07popularis : 1.485
Zorome no San Kyoudai
In Osaka, a family sets up shop in Tsuruhashi. Trouble brews for three brothers – Jinzuke, Tadayoshi, and Eizo – when they come together...
release : 1972.01.15popularis : 1.109
Student Yakuza
A youth action movie in which a student lone wolf who burns with unstoppable strength, courage, and a sense of justice rampages against a gangster.
release : 1974.02.16popularis : 1.597
The Viper Brothers: Jail - Living for 4 1/2 Years
Part 5 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
release : 1973.02.17popularis : 1.779
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
release : 1972.08.25popularis : 1.752
Pimp Heaven
Class-A Kyoto, a strip joint in Kyoto, is raided by the police. Shohei, a salesman who happens to be there, gets caught in the middle of it and is...
release : 1975.05.24popularis : 1.949
Abandoned
The film tells the story of a man who was washed ashore on an uninhabited island after a ship wrecked by a storm, and after twelve years, he returned...
release : 1981.06.06popularis : 0.679
A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
When a large crime syndicate seeks to invade Gifu's underworld, three brothers and their yakuza family are the only ones that stand in their way.
release : 1971.11.19popularis : 1.691
Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival
The fourth film in the Kanto Street Peddlers series. The protagonist, played by Bunta Sugawara sides with female boss Yumiko Nogawa to fight evil...
release : 1971.02.13popularis : 1.235
Jesus is My Boss
A warring Yakuza awakens to Christianity and becomes an evangelist. The film is modelled on the real-life "Mission Barabbas," a Christian...
release : 2001.09.01popularis : 1.247
Steel & Lead
A hard-boiled film that follows a detective who will be killed the next morning should he fail his mission, the yakuza assigned to watch over him,...
release : 1997.11.15popularis : 1.218
Kasajiro: The Kappa Marriage
Sakane, a police officer nicknamed "Kasajiro," remains single. He meets Shinko, the daughter of a condemned smuggler with a kappa tattoo, in a...
release : 1981.06.26popularis : 1.37
Kasajiro: Truncheon versus Sword
A series of murders at Fukagawa lumberyard is tied to a grudge letter from the deceased Kansuke Tsukunamiya. Officer Kasajiro Sakane investigates the...
release : 1982.06.04popularis : 1.926
Samurai Rebellion
Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward Samurai" by others. His sister Kane blames him...
release : 1987.07.02popularis : 1.231
Nile
A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows and goes to Egypt on a mission to cover the...
release : 1999.11.13popularis : 1.422
Fushin no Toki
Suspense TV movie adaptation of an original story by Sawako Ariyoshi, starring Yukiyo Toake.
release : 1984.12.28popularis : 0.902
Sanpei the Fisher Boy
Sanpei is a young boy who lives with his grandpa in a small village in Akita and they both love fishing and are masters at it. His sister moved to...
release : 2009.03.20popularis : 3.003
Carmen 1945
Prostitutes in burnt out Tokyo ghetto of post-WWII Japan peddle their flesh and save one-third of their money for a proposed dancehall to be named...
release : 1988.04.09popularis : 61.361
The Experience
Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
release : 1970.10.06popularis : 2.261
Father of the Kamikaze
Vice Admiral Takajiro Ohnishi could see that Japan's defeat in WWII was inevitable. He came to realize that the only way to force a negotiated...
release : 1974.09.14popularis : 6.559
The Decisive Power of Aikido
It is about the life of Ueshiba - the founder of aikido. We can see how he decided to develop aikido and how he did it. We can see why he developed...
release : 1975.11.22popularis : 4.882
The Silk Road
In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk...
release : 1988.06.25popularis : 2.435
Heaven and Earth
Warlords Kagetora and Takeda each wish to prevent the other from gaining hegemony in feudal Japan. The two samurai leaders pursue one another across...
release : 1990.11.24popularis : 2.827
Jeans Blues: No Future
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster...
release : 1974.03.30popularis : 2.916
Marriage Counselor Tora-san
In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...
release : 1984.08.04popularis : 0.887
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki...
release : 1974.12.28popularis : 6.202
Tokyo Blackout
Based on a science-fiction novel by Sakyo Komatsu. Tokyo is suddenly covered by a dome shaped electromagnetic cloud for an unknown reason and is...
release : 1987.01.16popularis : 3.198
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later,...
release : 1972.04.01popularis : 4.253
Andromedia
After his daughter Mai is killed in an auto accident, a genius programmer recreates her in the form of a computer program called AI. His jealous...
release : 1998.07.11popularis : 2.828
The Last Kamikaze
With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...
release : 1970.10.29popularis : 3.065
The Horrible Obsessions
Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment...
release : 1972.12.16popularis : 4.521
Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a...
release : 1970.12.03popularis : 2.403
Wolves on Motorcycles
Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.
release : 1971.07.31popularis : 2.99
One Bowl of Kakesoba
Set in Sapporo during the oil crisis of the early '70s, the film centers on the Hokkaitei soba stand run by a stoic patriarch and his perky wife. One...
release : 1992.02.15popularis : 7.648
Sympathy for the Underdog
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
release : 1971.01.12popularis : 3.867
Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs...
release : 1971.04.28popularis : 1.823
Death Shadows
Three men sentenced to death are spared and changed into “shadows executioners”, a group of ruthless ninja working for mysterious high...
release : 1986.09.20popularis : 5.418
Antarctica
Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica.
release : 1983.07.23popularis : 6.446
Time and Tide
An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.
release : 1983.03.18popularis : 2.24
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
A high-school girl acquires the ability to time travel.
release : 1997.11.08popularis : 2.006
Amagi Pass
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A...
release : 1983.02.19popularis : 4.846
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after...
release : 1976.09.04popularis : 3.6
Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist
Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she...
release : 1976.05.29popularis : 2.917
Lovers Lost
A poignant love story between a 29-year-old woman, who has once been a prostitute but is now the mistress of a wealthy jewelry merchant, and a...
release : 1982.06.12popularis : 7.618
Legend of Dinosaurs and Monster Birds
A Japanese geologist discovers that dinosaurs still exist in caves beneath the surface of a volcanic lake.
release : 1977.04.29popularis : 2.529
Hell Riders in Kyoto
The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even...
release : 1973.04.28popularis : 1.807
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly...
release : 1980.04.05popularis : 3.395
Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying...
release : 1972.06.21popularis : 2.187
Shadow Warriors: Hattori Hanzo
The tale takes place around 1650, after the death of the third Tokugawa shogun, when ronin were expelled from Edo, the military capital. During the...
release : 1980.02.23popularis : 1.4
Call from Darkness
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case...
release : 1981.09.26popularis : 2.327
Aesthetics of a Bullet
A small time crook, who sells rabbits for a living frequently gets him into trouble with loan sharks and the yakuza. He dreams of becoming a...
release : 1973.02.10popularis : 3.519
Sailor Suit and Machine Gun
A high-school girl inherits a declining yakuza organization, which seeks to repair its fortunes under her leadership.
release : 1981.12.19popularis : 8.085
Writhing Tongue
Masako, a five-year-old girl living, gets a scratch on her finger. After that, she suffered horrible spasms. The doctor checks on her and arrives at...
release : 1980.11.22popularis : 3.289
G.I. Samurai
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai...
release : 1979.09.17popularis : 6.597
Karate Killer
Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins...
release : 1973.10.13popularis : 5.132
The Fall of Ako Castle
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...
release : 1978.10.28popularis : 5.591
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's...
release : 1976.02.28popularis : 4.589
Gate of Youth 2
Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.
release : 1982.01.23popularis : 0.927
Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School
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...
release : 1973.05.24popularis : 1.909
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new...
release : 1973.09.25popularis : 4.967
The Tattooed Hitman
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...
release : 1974.04.27popularis : 4.069
August without Emperor
Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...
release : 1978.09.23popularis : 3.629
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
release : 1973.01.13popularis : 7.165
The Incident
The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old...
release : 1978.06.03popularis : 2.304
A Savage Beast Goes Mad
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is...
release : 1976.05.15popularis : 3.832
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The...
release : 1975.11.01popularis : 6.808
Fate Deals the Card of Death
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after, and they promise each other to meet again a year...
release : 1971.02.13popularis : 2.215
Virus
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the...
release : 1980.06.26popularis : 10.008
Four Days of Snow and Blood
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several...
release : 1989.06.17popularis : 3.26
Yakuza Skirmishes
In the gaudy world of 1930s Shinjuku, a violent youth known as Bakudan Match tangles explosively with prostitutes, politicians and the police.
release : 1972.09.29popularis : 2.456
A True Story of the Private Ginza Police
After a desperate gang of ex-soldiers and gamblers meet in a fistfight in occupied Ginza they decide to make the neighborhood their own.
release : 1973.07.04popularis : 2.8
Violent Fraternity
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
release : 1974.11.01popularis : 2.361
Third Generation Boss
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.
release : 1974.08.10popularis : 2.425
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
release : 1974.06.01popularis : 2.098
Crest of Betrayal
Weaving two storylines together: the first is the story of 18th-century shogunate intrigue and loyalty, and the second is a ghost story about a...
release : 1994.10.22popularis : 3.562
Gate of Youth
The story of Shinsuke, a young man who lives through a stormy life as a poverty-stricken coal miner. Ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...
release : 1981.01.15popularis : 6.286
Curtain Call
Miho Nakamichi, an orphan adopted by Haruko, dreams to star in a musical. One day, Haruko promised Miho that she could go on a journey to find her...
release : 1984.07.14popularis : 0.955
Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
release : 1970.08.01popularis : 1.482
Code of Wolves
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
release : 1974.10.05popularis : 2.619
Maji!
Based on the comic book by Ayumi Tachihara.
release : 1991.04.13popularis : 0.874
Woman Mobsters
Bank robbers steal 30 million yen and try to elude the cops and escape with the cash. Of the three, only one manages to avoid capture. Yoko, a female...
release : 1974.03.01popularis : 2.96
The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....
release : 1971.11.10popularis : 0.727
The Bad Boss: Wholesale Roundup
This is the thirteenth film in the series.
release : 1971.09.14popularis : 2.105
Three Pretty Devils
A trio of teenage tarts try to earn money through shoplifting and prostitution scams and get into deep trouble.
release : 1970.06.13popularis : 2.13
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
release : 1974.12.07popularis : 2.21
The Gambler's Counterattack
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...
release : 1971.10.14popularis : 1.901
The Karate Man and the Spy
In the beginning of the World War I in 1914, Japan is being invaded spies from Russia and Germany. To eliminate the spies the army hires Sakuragi, a...
release : 1974.07.04popularis : 1.719
Beyond the Shining Sea
Heartbroken Ukiko takes refuge with a relative after a devastating breakup. While away, she makes a dangerous match with the husband of her frigid...
release : 1986.07.12popularis : 0.686
The Three Undelivered Letters
A young Japanese-American man arrives at his grandmother's old hometown in Yamaguchi, begins to stay at her family's elite but dysfunctional...
release : 1979.10.06popularis : 2.755
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
release : 1974.11.22popularis : 1.989
Operation Plazma in Osaka
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
release : 1976.01.31popularis : 2.047
1750 Days of Turbulence
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
release : 1990.09.15popularis : 1.319
The Street of Desire
A valet at a fancy nightclub hatches a plot to punish those responsible for his father's death.
release : 1984.04.14popularis : 2.309
The Wicked
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction.
release : 1980.06.28popularis : 1.503
Heaven Sent
Sayoko is desperate to bear a child of her own, but her live-in boyfriend Shinsaku strenuously objects to the idea. One day, someone leaves behind a...
release : 1979.12.28popularis : 2.25
Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
Three new students at a super-strict girl's school must face off with a repressive school administration, the sadistic, murderous student discipline...
release : 1973.03.31popularis : 2.922
The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
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...
release : 1973.09.01popularis : 1.879
Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life...
release : 1990.04.20popularis : 0.964
Japan's Don
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
release : 1977.01.22popularis : 2.001
Troops of Darkness
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.
release : 1971.11.10popularis : 2.523
Emperor of Upheaval
The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
release : 1993.06.12popularis : 0.523
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
release : 1993.07.03popularis : 3.321
Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack
Toei studios last ninkyo eiga of the 70's.
release : 1975.01.15popularis : 1.128
Haru Urara
Based on the true story of racing horse "Haru Urara" ("Gentle Spring"), who lost every single horse race she entered since her 1998 debut.
release : 2005.04.01popularis : 1.258
Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife...
release : 1989.01.14popularis : 3.134
Girl Boss: Diamond Showdown
Keiko Aizawa a vengeance-crazed vixen sets out on a journey to avenge the death of her older sister.
release : 1974.01.15popularis : 3.72
Let's Get Happy
A comedy about the uproar in a yakuza office, before the dissolution ceremony the next day. The day before the dissolution of the Yamamuro group, it...
release : 1998.12.09popularis : 0.514