A shogunate secret agent is sent to investigate a secret deal with a Dutch Read More »
Tag Archives: Tomisaburô Wakayama
Shinsengumi Last Days of the Shogunate / Shoretsu shinsengumi – bakumatsu no doran (1960) Yasushi Sasaki, Chiezô Kataoka, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yatarô Kurokawa
Near the end of the Edo period, a military force known as Shinsengumi guards the Shogun. Read More »
Irezumi / Spirit of Tattoo (1982) Yoichi Takabayashi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Yûsuke Takita, Harue Kyô
To satisfy her lover’s fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered Read More »
The Path of the King / Nihon yakuza-den: Sôchiyô e no michi (1971) Masahiro Makino, Ken Takakura, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama
When the aging leader of the yakuza gang Maeda-gumi decides to retire, many of the gang members have no confidence Read More »
Internal Sleuth / Sakura no Daimon (1973) Kenji Misumi, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kayo Matsuo, Michi Higashi
When 150 guns are lost from the Iwakuni base and two police officers Read More »
Fate Deals the Card of Death / Bakuchi-uchi: Inochi-huda (1971) Kôsaku Yamashita, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Michiyo Yasuda
Seijiro and Shizue meet in Niigata and fall in love. Seijiro has to go back to Tokyo soon after Read More »
Gambler / Bakuchi uchi (1967) Shigehiro Ozawa, Kôji Tsuruta, Kyôsuke Machida, Tomisaburô Wakayama
Tsuruta is a respected tattoo artist working with comrades Machida and Yamashiro. Read More »
Chutaro of Banba (1955) Banba no Chûtarô
Based on the play ”Mabuta no Haha” by famed author Hasegawa Shin, this is the first major Read More »
Sympathy for the Underdog / Bakuto gaijin butai (1971) Kinji Fukasaku, Kôji Tsuruta, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Tsunehiko Watase
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. Read More »
Ohyaku: The Female Demon / Yôen dokufu-den: Han’nya no Ohyaku (1968) Yoshihiro Ishikawa, Junko Miyazono, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Kunio Murai
A female acrobat and a thief plans to steal the gold from the mint. Read More »