243 results found for: Sympathy for the Underdog
Sympathy for the Underdog
Japanese Movie - 19717.4
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Ando Noboru
Ando Noboru is a Japanese actor and former yakuza. He is known for utilizing his experiences as a criminal in his many roles in yakuza films. One clear sign of his past occupation is the large knife scar on his left cheek, the result of a brawl with a Korean gangster as a young man
Fukasaku Kinji
Kinji Fukasaku was a Japanese film director and screenwriter. He is known for directing the Japanese portion of the Hollywood film Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970), yakuza films including the seminal Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973), samurai period pieces such as Shogun's Samurai (1978), and his controversial…
Tsuruta Koji
Ono Eiichi, better known by his stage name Tsuruta Koji, was a Japanese actor and singer. He appeared in almost 260 feature films and had a unique style of singing. His daughter, Tsuruta Sayaka, is an actress. Born in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Tsuruta was raised in Osaka by his grandmother, following his…
Tanaka Osamu
Tanaka Osamu is a Japanese editor. Not to be confused with the actor with the same name.
Koike Asao
Koike Asao was a Japanese actor, voice actor, and narrator from Tokyo. He graduated from Aoyama High School and joined the Bungakuza Acting Research Institute in 1950, making his stage debut in "The People of Mount Kunlun." In 1963, following a split in Bungakuza, he helped found the modern theater…
Yuri Tohru
Yuri Tohru was a Japanese comedy actor and voice actor from Ishinomaki, Miyagi, Japan.
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Korean Movie - 20027.7
In Seoul, Ryu, a deaf worker, has a sister who needs a kidney transplant. He tries to donate his own kidney to his sister, but his blood type is not compatible with hers. When Ryu is fired from Ilshin Electronics,…
Fake & Faker: The Royal Lie
Chinese Drama - 2025, 69 episodes
The Chen family, a lineage of generals, has lost all its sons in battle for the nation. To preserve the family bloodline, the grandmother disguises the sole surviving heir, Chen Ping An, as a girl and declares to the…
Wolves Cry Under the Moon
Taiwanese Movie - 19974.0
Taiwan highways are crammed with millions of cars everyday. One day, the government closes the highways for 12 hours. All the cars are forced off their usual routes... Youthful Jade steals a jeep. On her way, she picks…
Bonkura
Japanese Drama - 2014, 10 episodes7.0
The murder of a greengrocer marks the start of a series of disappearances of the residents of a tenement house. Feeling suspicious about these cases as well as sympathy for the residents, the constable Izutsu Heishiro…
Kaerimichi: Kisu no Kioku
Japanese Movie - 2025
Yu is streaming himself singing and playing the guitar. His roommate, Mikio, is filming. After a dispute with another resident at his previous apartment about his guitar being too loud, the landlord, Mikio, suggested…
Onihei Hankacho: Deku no Juzo
Japanese Special - 2024, 1 episodes6.3
Ono Juzo, an officer from Arson and Theft Control Division, stumbled upon a scene where a wanted thief, Sukejiro had been killed by his pregnant wife, Ofuji. Out of sympathy for the wife, Juzo hides the dead body and…
A Taxing Woman
Japanese Movie - 19877.5
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in…
Miracle in Four Days
Japanese Movie - 20056.6
Dvorak's Symphony No. 9, "From the New World" wafts through a hospice recreation room. Sitting at the grand piano is a young girl, Chiori, with a prodigious ability to play any piece of music after one hearing. Kisaragi…
Bao Shi Fu Zi
Chinese Movie - 1983
The film tells the story of servant Lao Bao, who toils to raise his son. However, his son shows no ambition, and Lao Bao's hopes for his son to achieve great success are dashed. The film remains faithful to the core…
