Watari Tetsuya

Watari Tetsuya was a Japanese actor, enka singer, entertainer, and businessman. He was born in Yasugi, Nogi, Shimane, Japan and raised in Awaji, Hyogo. He graduated from Aoyama Gakuin University (青山学院大学) with a degree in economics after attending Ishiya Elementary School and Mita Gakuen…

Ito Shiro

Ito Shiro is a Japanese comedian, actor, talent, and moderator born in Takecho, Shitaya-ku, Tokyo. He is a consultant to the Japan Comedy Association. He belongs to Orte Planning. His son is actor and talent Ito Takaaki. After graduating from Tokyo Metropolitan Ichigaya Commercial High School, he hoped…

Nakamura Yuri

Nakamura Yuri is a Japanese-born Korean actress and former singer from Neyagawa City, Osaka Prefecture. She belongs to the Alpha Agency. Nakamura's father was a third-generation Japanese man and her mother was Korean and held citizenship in both South Korea and Japan. Nakamura, like many other multiracial…

Mickey Curtis

Mickey Curtis (born Michael Brian Curtis) is a Japanese actor, singer, and media personality. He was born to English-Japanese parents. A pivotal figure in Japanese popular music, Mickey is considered one of the three big Japanese names in rock music, helping to popularize the genre in the 1950s where…

Hashizume Isao

Hashizume Isao is a Japanese actor born in Higashisumiyoshi Ward, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. He is the representative of the theater group Yen and belongs to Yen Planning. In 1975, he participated in the founding of the theater group Yen with Akutagawa, Nakaya Noboru, Kishida Kyoko, and Arikawa Hiroshi.…

Kaga Mariko

Kaga Mariko is a Japanese actress, born in Kanda, Tokyo, Japan. She was scouted by directors Shinoda Masahiro and Terayama Shuji, and made her film debut in a Shinoda-directed, Terayama-penned movie, Tears on the Lion's Mane, in 1962. In recent years, she has gained newfound popularity thanks to her…

Osugi Ren

Osugi Ren (born Osugi Takashi) was a Japanese actor. For his work in Cure, Hana-bi and other films, Osugi was given the Best Supporting Actor award at the 1999 Yokohama Film Festival. He often worked alongside Takeshi Kitano and Susumu Terajima. In the DVDcommentary, to the mpd.psycho (TV Miniseries)…

Denden

Denden, born Ogata Yoshihiro, is a Japanese actor and former comedian born in Chikushino City, Fukuoka Prefecture and raised in Mizumaki Town. He belongs to the Alpha Agency. After graduating from high school, he moved to Tokyo to apply for an apprenticeship under Atsumi Kiyoshi, but he could not meet…

Matsushige Yutaka

Matsushige Yutaka, born in Fukuoka Prefecture, is a Japanese actor. He won the award for the best supporting actor at the 31st Yokohama Film Festival for Dear Doctor. (Source: Wikipedia)

Kataoka Tsurutaro

Tsurutarou Kataoka is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 31st Blue Ribbon Awards, at the 13th Hochi Film Award and at the 10th Yokohama Film Festival for The Discarnates. -- Wikipedia

Barons

South Korea can no longer be considered a drug-free country. The drug epidemic is so widespread that meth has been detected in sewage collected from sewage treatment plants. When the government realizes that the police…

Good Friends

6.4

K, Tatsuya, Joon Oh and Yuuji are best friends. They work for Sung Ho's gang in a Korean neighbourhood in Japan. A power struggle over their territory erupts between their gang and the yakuza. K, Tatsuya, Joon Oh and…

Hana-Bi

7.7

Nishi is a violent and unpredictable police detective who quits the force after a terrible incident results in his partner, Horibe, needing to use a wheelchair. After his retirement he spends much of his time looking…

Irasshaimase, Kanja-sama

6.5

In this film, a hospital with bad reputation and debts is transformed into a money-making machine by putting all focus on "customer satisfaction", such as offering some-what kinky optive service like extended time…

Yataro Kasa

Hoodlum Priest and the Gold Mint

4.0

The rogue Ryuzen priest is now not only gambling, fornicating, fighting, drinking and dealing in entertainment services, but also becomes involved in abetting a woman who may have inherited a fortune and needs a helping…

Hamon: Yakuza Boogie

7.2

Keisuke Ninomiya, who works as a construction consultant, becomes acquainted through his work with yakuza Yasuhiko Kuwabara. One day, film producer Koshimizu brings a movie investment proposal to yakuza leader Shimada.…

Yamegoku - Yakuza Yamete Itadakimasu

7.2

Nagamitsu Bakushu is a mysterious police officer who mans a hotline within the Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Organised Crime Department for breakaway yakuza members. After receiving a phone call, the detective in charge…

Kamikaze Cop, Marihuana Syndicate The Assassin

Shiro Hayata is a detective who rescues a gangster after which he becomes an undercover cop in a yakuza gang to explore the marijuana import route. He saves the yakuza boss called Mano Mitsuo and is assigned to kill…

Honjitsu Kyushin

6.0

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day, a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical…