Gajiro Satoh
Bekend om: Acting
Verjaardag: 1944-08-09
Geboorteplaats: Takaishi, Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Ook gekend als: Gajirô Satô
Tora-san Makes Excuses
Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...
Vrijlating : 1992.12.26Populariteit : 2.575
Tora-san's Matchmaker
After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...
Vrijlating : 1993.12.25Populariteit : 1.752
Tora-san Confesses
When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...
Vrijlating : 1991.12.23Populariteit : 4.89
Tora-san Takes a Vacation
Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...
Vrijlating : 1990.12.22Populariteit : 1.665
Tora-san's Easy Advice
Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an...
Vrijlating : 1994.12.23Populariteit : 1.475
Tora-san to the Rescue
Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.
Vrijlating : 1995.12.23Populariteit : 1.464
In Broad Daylight
After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends...
Vrijlating : 1968.10.26Populariteit : 1.538
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
Vrijlating : 1973.01.04Populariteit : 2.525
The Peking Man
In 1929 the fossil of a 500,000 year old man is discovered in China. In 1941 the Japanese army confiscates this find, but during the war the remains...
Vrijlating : 1997.12.20Populariteit : 2.199
Ninja Wars
A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with...
Vrijlating : 1982.12.18Populariteit : 4.852
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...
Vrijlating : 1979.09.17Populariteit : 6.08
Shura ga Yuku 6
Set in Aizuwakamatsu, where resort development is progressing, the sixth installment of the gangster action series that depicts the battle between...
Vrijlating : 1997.09.19Populariteit : 2.332
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through...
Vrijlating : 2000.11.11Populariteit : 1.476
Tora-san's Grand Scheme
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...
Vrijlating : 1970.02.26Populariteit : 3.308
The Japanese Belly Button
Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.
Vrijlating : 1977.03.15Populariteit : 1.754
Graveyard of Honor
A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Vrijlating : 2002.06.22Populariteit : 4.995
Supermarket Woman
A struggling Japanese neighborhood supermarket manager chances upon an old classmate, who has plenty of ideas for revitalizing his business.
Vrijlating : 1996.06.15Populariteit : 5.356
Tora-san's Lullaby
After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....
Vrijlating : 1974.12.28Populariteit : 1.687
Tora-san's Pure Love
When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...
Vrijlating : 1976.12.25Populariteit : 1.542
Tora-san Meets His Lordship
Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.
Vrijlating : 1977.08.06Populariteit : 1.352
Tora-san Plays Cupid
Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...
Vrijlating : 1977.12.24Populariteit : 2.463
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,...
Vrijlating : 1997.11.15Populariteit : 1.705
It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)
This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit...
Vrijlating : 1968.10.03Populariteit : 1.298
Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu
Comedy centered on a stripper agency
Vrijlating : 1971.07.24Populariteit : 0.635
Stage-Struck Tora-san
Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...
Vrijlating : 1978.08.05Populariteit : 1.899
Talk of the Town Tora-san
After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...
Vrijlating : 1978.12.27Populariteit : 2.125
It's Tough Being a Man
Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....
Vrijlating : 1969.08.27Populariteit : 3.109
Disregarded People
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a...
Vrijlating : 2013.10.20Populariteit : 4.869
Rex: A Dinosaur's Story
A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.
Vrijlating : 1993.07.03Populariteit : 4.649
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Vrijlating : 1979.08.04Populariteit : 1.698
Short and Fat
A high-school student rescues his baseball team. Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga "Dokaben".
Vrijlating : 1977.04.29Populariteit : 2.401
Dead Angle
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Vrijlating : 1979.07.04Populariteit : 2.574
Outlaw Cop
A bad cop is engaged in a violent chase to catch a yakuza boss. In his absence his wife runs away with another man, who turns out to be the very same...
Vrijlating : 1976.02.04Populariteit : 2.659
The Rainbow Seeker
A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...
Vrijlating : 1996.12.28Populariteit : 4
Nuns That Bite
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a...
Vrijlating : 1977.04.08Populariteit : 3.465
Bullying is Costly
An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut.
Vrijlating : 1986.09.22Populariteit : 1.761
Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front....
Vrijlating : 1991.09.27Populariteit : 0.903
Hamon: Yakuza Boogie
Keisuke Ninomiya (Yu Yokoyama) works as a construction consultant. Through his work, he becomes acquainted with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara (Kuranosuke...
Vrijlating : 2017.01.28Populariteit : 3.253
The Killing Game
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes...
Vrijlating : 1978.12.02Populariteit : 2.621
Stray Dog
When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...
Vrijlating : 1973.09.29Populariteit : 6.475
Quarreling with Yakuza
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.
Vrijlating : 1973.03.03Populariteit : 2.63
Tora-san's Forbidden Love
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...
Vrijlating : 1984.12.28Populariteit : 5.764
The Classroom of Terror
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by...
Vrijlating : 1976.07.01Populariteit : 1.478
Follow the Girls
Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Vrijlating : 1971.05.19Populariteit : 1.127
Suddenly, Like a Storm
21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the...
Vrijlating : 1977.04.29Populariteit : 0.672
Dragon Princess
A karate master played by Sonny Chiba is attacked and left crippled and blinded in one eye. He trains his daughter (Etsuko Shihomi) with the...
Vrijlating : 1976.01.31Populariteit : 2.021
The Four Roughnecks
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released...
Vrijlating : 1974.11.22Populariteit : 1.171
Watch Out, Crimson Bat!
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,...
Vrijlating : 1969.10.01Populariteit : 3.151
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
Vrijlating : 1969.11.14Populariteit : 3.469
Tora-san, His Tender Love
Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.
Vrijlating : 1970.01.15Populariteit : 1.897
Code Between Brothers 6
Sixth film in the "Kyodai Jingi" series. Three gangsters challenge an underworld group in northern Japan.
Vrijlating : 1967.12.23Populariteit : 1.674
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...
Vrijlating : 1984.08.04Populariteit : 1.242
Prey
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his...
Vrijlating : 1979.06.23Populariteit : 1.301
Tora-san, Wish You Were Here
The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo,...
Vrijlating : 2019.12.27Populariteit : 2.883
Proof of the Man
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a...
Vrijlating : 1977.10.08Populariteit : 5.721
Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...
Vrijlating : 1982.08.07Populariteit : 1.299
About Her Brother
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to...
Vrijlating : 2010.01.30Populariteit : 3.018
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
Vrijlating : 1981.09.12Populariteit : 0.722
Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...
Vrijlating : 1976.07.23Populariteit : 2.207
Women Can't Be Beaten
An uptight young man comes to suspect that his factory worker girlfriend has a secret involving his boorish older brother.
Vrijlating : 1969.10.01Populariteit : 1.281
Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Vrijlating : 1980.12.27Populariteit : 2.172
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
Vrijlating : 1973.12.25Populariteit : 1.771
Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...
Vrijlating : 1975.08.19Populariteit : 3.178
Tora-san's Tropical Fever
When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.
Vrijlating : 1980.08.02Populariteit : 2.481
Tora-san, the Intellectual
Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...
Vrijlating : 1975.12.27Populariteit : 1.57
Tora-san's Promise
Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...
Vrijlating : 1981.12.28Populariteit : 1.606
Tora-san, the Expert
Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...
Vrijlating : 1982.12.28Populariteit : 3.443
Tora-san's Love in Osaka
When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...
Vrijlating : 1981.08.08Populariteit : 1.341
Tora-san's Dream of Spring
Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.
Vrijlating : 1979.12.28Populariteit : 3.058
Tora-san's Runaway
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an...
Vrijlating : 1970.08.26Populariteit : 4.351
Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
Vrijlating : 1974.08.10Populariteit : 2.172
Tora-san, My Uncle
Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.
Vrijlating : 1989.12.27Populariteit : 4.192
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.
Vrijlating : 1973.07.04Populariteit : 3.51
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
Vrijlating : 1972.12.29Populariteit : 5.009
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
Vrijlating : 1972.08.05Populariteit : 2.691
Tora-san, the Good Samaritan
After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.
Vrijlating : 1971.04.28Populariteit : 6.628
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...
Vrijlating : 1971.01.15Populariteit : 4.956
Tora-san's Song of Love
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...
Vrijlating : 1983.08.06Populariteit : 3.277
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
Vrijlating : 1983.12.28Populariteit : 5.813
Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
Vrijlating : 1985.08.03Populariteit : 1.055
Tora-san's Island Encounter
Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...
Vrijlating : 1985.12.28Populariteit : 2.96
Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...
Vrijlating : 1986.12.20Populariteit : 1.537
Tora-san Goes North
When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...
Vrijlating : 1987.08.15Populariteit : 4.089
Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...
Vrijlating : 1987.12.26Populariteit : 1.688
Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.
Vrijlating : 1988.12.24Populariteit : 2.696
Tora-san Goes to Vienna
During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.
Vrijlating : 1989.08.05Populariteit : 1.058
Melody of Rebellion
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a...
Vrijlating : 1970.07.22Populariteit : 3.102
The King of Minami Returns: A Winning Divorce, a Losing Divorce
Osaka loan shark Ginjiro Manda becomes entangled in an elaborate divorce scheme targeting a hard-working waitress at his cafe.
Vrijlating : 2018.01.06Populariteit : 0.712
The Shy Deceiver
A young thug wanna-be yakuza falls in love with a country girl.
Vrijlating : 1968.06.15Populariteit : 3.402
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends...
Vrijlating : 1975.03.01Populariteit : 6.247
Osaka Tough Guys
Osaka Tough Guys stars Kentaro Nakakura and Yoshiyuki Ohmori. It tells the story of two hoods forced to take on paid work when they run out of money...
Vrijlating : 1995.06.21Populariteit : 3.401
Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories
Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre...
Vrijlating : 1969.03.29Populariteit : 2.857
The Pachinko Game Drifter
Based on the comic by Yoshikazu Ebisu, starring Riki Takeuchi, Dan-chan, who plays the role of Takeuchi, challenges the great game of the century,...
Vrijlating : 1995.01.20Populariteit : 0.368
Pink Lady's Motion Picture
The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a...
Vrijlating : 1978.12.16Populariteit : 1.371