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Tag Archives: Tetsuya Watari
Step on the Gas / Shinjuku outlaw: Buttobase (1970)
Y?ji, fresh out of prison on parole, is taken to a bar that Nao operates and there he meets his old love Emiko Read More »
It Is a Long Walk / Nagasaki burabura bushi (2000) Yukio Fukamachi, Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tetsuya Watari, Reiko Takashima
Though she was sold to a geisha house at a young age, Aihara (Yoshinaga) Read More »
Black Dagger / Burai: Kuro dosu (1968) Keiichi Ozawa, Tamio Kawachi, Chieko Matsubara, Kunie Tanaka, Tetsuya Watari
“Black Dagger” is the fifth successful installment of the “Outlaw” series. Read More »
Tokyo Drifter AKA Tôkyô nagaremono (1966) Seijun Suzuki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Tamio Kawachi
Tokyo Drifter stands with Branded to Kill as one of the best-known and most acclaimed films of Seijun Suzuki, one of Japan’s most talented maverick directors. Read More »
The Heart of Hiroshima / Ai to shi no kiroku (1966)
One morning, Kazue (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop Read More »
Velvet Hustler (1967) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Ruriko Asaoka, Jô Shishido
A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. Read More »
Heartless (1968) Mio Ezaki, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Kôji Wada, Hiroshi Nawa
Known as one of the pioneers to establish the Nikkatsu “mood action” genre, Mio Ezaki incorporates road movie scenes with a new theme song sung by Tetsuya Watari Read More »
Gangster VIP (1968) Toshio Masuda, Tetsuya Watari, Chieko Matsubara, Mitsuo Hamada, Tamio Kawachi
The film stars Tetsuya Watari who plays Goro, a gangster who was sent to prison for three years for stabbing a hitman Read More »
Gangster VIP 2 (1968) Keiichi Ozawa, Tetsuya Watari, Izumi Ashikawa, Eimei Esumi, Jûkei Fujioka
Wherever he goes, trouble follows Goro like a shadow. Continuing in the storyline of its predecessor Read More »