Hayato Tani
Also Known As: 岩谷肇, 岩谷隆広
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: September 09, 1946
Age: 78 years old
Gender: Male
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Once and For All Pt.２
Overview: Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-03-30
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Wild Spirit
Overview: It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-01-14
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Call Girl
Overview: A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior.
Genres: Romance Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-09-18
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Nocturnal Lights
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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Only on Mondays
Overview: Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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The School Deviate Waru
Overview: Yoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to tame him down, but they fail miserably. Yoji continues his no-respect rampage until the school principal brings in a new student, an American educated karate expert Noboru Ohinata (Yuki Meguro), to counter Yoji’s terror!
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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The Final Gamble
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-02-11
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The Incident at Takanodai
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Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-29
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Empress
Overview: A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his mistress. But beware, power is fleeting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-04-29
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Dai san no jôji
Overview: Pinku from 1965.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-11-01
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The Experience
Overview: Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-06
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Wandering Himeshiro
Overview: Himeshiro is a wandering yakuza, his father was the best doctor in the eight provinces of the Kanto region, and Himeshiro took over the knowledge of medicine from his father. If he encounters a sick person on the way, he uses his right hand, wrapped in a rosary, to give medical attention, while if he sees a bad person, he draws his sword with his left hand and uses it to punish the evildoers. So he travels on the verge of life and death along the Nakasendo highway...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-02-12
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Hikari Sentai Maskman: The Movie
Overview: Takeru fights to rescue a mermaid living in an underground pool being used by Igam to cause massive earthquakes to the surface.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1987-07-18
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Kekkon Annai Mystery
Overview: A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1985-06-15
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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
Overview: The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-06-01
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雪夫人繪圖
Overview: 1975 Toei movie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-01
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Nagasaki Blues
Overview: Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-04-19
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Love Lost in Tears
Overview: Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-08-11
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The Bad Guy Blues
Overview: A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-08-27
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The Bad Boss
Overview: The first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
Genres: Drama Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-06
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Organized Violence II
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Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-06-29
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A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
Overview: Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-12-23
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Rampaging Dragon of the North
Overview: The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fukasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-22
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Reformatory Buddies
Overview: Third film in the series.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Overview: Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-08-13
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Black Sun
Overview: Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-04-24
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Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
Overview: Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-10-15
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Wolf Escort
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-31
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Wolves of the City: Checkmate
Overview: This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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The School of Chaos
Overview: Based on the manga by Tetsu Kariya and Ryouichi Ikegami.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-09-20
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Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
Overview: The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-18
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Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
Overview: The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-08-01
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Hooligans on Buggies
Overview: Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-10-29
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-29
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
Overview: The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two girl gangs to clash in several fights. However, when one of the leaders dies, the girls end up by uniting against the male gangsters that had been using them as puppets - and it all ends in a great finale mixed battle by the seashore.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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The Bullet and the Horse
Overview: A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-04-23
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Once and For All
Overview: Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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The Japan Derby Race
Overview: A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-13
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
Overview: Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-12-27
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Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
Overview: This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big Bad" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also worked with Ito.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-13
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A Young Female Instructor
Overview: A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-15
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The Bad Boss 3
Overview: A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-05-06
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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
Overview: Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-01-18
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New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-30
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Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
Overview: Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-09-22
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Pretty Devil Yoko
Overview: Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl (Mako Midori) discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be (Ichiro Araki) is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here (Hayato Tani) the first boyfriend. Director Yasuo Furuhata (his first picture) lets his camera roll in trendy clubs amongst partying youngsters in a way that could've been out of 60s England or a Nikkatsu film. The film was inspired by an article in Life magazine (Volume 57, 1964) titled The Young Rebellion.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-03-19
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The Transgressor
Overview: 18 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Delinquent Street
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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Port City Blues
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Takeshi's Castle Vol. 1
Overview: Various attacking forces unique to Takeshi's Castle were organized, aiming for "Defeat! Takeshi's Castle" There were many battles. This set gathers the tightness of the battle, such as parent-child tournament, Danjin tournament, female college student tournament, brave fighter tournament, etc. Also included is a collection of contests in Takeshi's Castle, as well as episodes of Takeshi & Takeshi Corps struggling to recapture the castle that was stolen by Captain Tani.
Genres: Comedy Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2009-11-20
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The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation
Overview: A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Matsubara). The wife finally kills him, but...
Genres: Horror TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-07
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