Keiichi Kitagawa
Also Known As: 北川恵一
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Gender: Other
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Dissolution Rites
Overview: Sawaki is released from prison after serving eight years for murdering a rival gang leader in order to obtain the land rights to a landfill for the Kotaki clan and he discovers that the world has changed significantly in that time. The police have forced the disbanding of all yakuza groups in and around Tokyo and most of the former yakuza have moved on to legitimate jobs. Sawaki is disgusted that his yakuza brothers have abandoned their codes of honor and are abusing their newfound power in the legitimate business world to exploit the poor. Sawaki feels partly responsible for making them so powerful and enabling their corruption, so he decides to follow his traditional code of honor to save the residents of a small town where his former lover lives.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-31
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Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
Overview: TULIP (The Undercover Line of International Police) is a New York-based international police force in direct opposition to the criminal organization TIGER (The International Group of Espionage and Revolt). Shunsuke Dan is agent Spycatcher J3 of the TULIP Japan Branch. Spycatcher J3 stands against TIGER's machinations.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-03
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次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-09
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新婚シリーズ 月給日は嫌い
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-01-23
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新婚シリーズ 最初が肝心
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-07
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Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
Overview: Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's girlfriend (Miki Sugimoto). Upon release Reiko reassembles her mob and launches a Machiavellian scheme to engineer a gang war between Hayama's Oba Industries and the formerly dominant Hamayasu Clan. The rival gangs begin killing each other off and Reiko works her way closer to her ultimate vengeance.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-27
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Gang's Upward Strategy
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
Overview: Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is taken in a crossfire between a big yakuza group from Osaka at war with the Tokyo alliance for the control of the city. He tries to keep to the old yakuza code but he is no match for the new thugs who live and fight without honor.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-07-08
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Darling Escape
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-02-22
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The Yellow Climate
Overview: Based on the mystery novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-23
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First Love of Okon
Overview: A fox in disguise, Okon, returns the favor to a man who rescued her from a fatal trap.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-07-06
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Hahakogusa
Overview: Based on the Nobu Koito story
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-04-22
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Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
Overview: With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-10-25
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Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Overview: Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-11-07
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Continental Drifter
Overview: Japanese crime film.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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The Pretty Jade
Overview: Part 3 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-09-17
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The Ando Gang Documentary Film
Overview: This biopic of notorious yakuza-turned-actor Noboru Ando focuses on the days leading to his arrest after the shooting of businessman Hideki Yokoi.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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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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Devotion to Railway
Overview: A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-11-08
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2
Overview: Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-03-01
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Sister with Sister
Overview: Yoshiko finds new life and love interests when she takes a new job as an office worker.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-12-09
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Romance Freestyle
Overview: The love between young college students Toki and the handsome Takaga is tested when Takaya's parents, who despise Toki's family's geisha house business, intervenes in their relationship.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Deep River Melody
Overview: A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-09-13
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The Armed Organization
Overview: Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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The Tokyo Dame
Overview: A young woman tries to keep her family together after her father disowns her sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-03-17
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Tale of Young Drifter 2
Overview: Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-08-16
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Quarreling with Yakuza
Overview: Set loose in a postwar world with no rules, an ex-juvenile delinquent begins building the most powerful gang in Tokyo's glittering Shibuya ward.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Sympathy for the Underdog
Overview: A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-01-12
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Cosmetic Sales Competition
Overview: A cosmetics saleswoman falls for a rival executive.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-06-09
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Secret Information
Overview: A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to find out who squealed on him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-05-14
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Gambler's World 2
Overview: Thriller about a gangster and an outlaw who become friends despite their different outlooks.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-11-23
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Gambler's World
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-07-30
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The Cheating Underworld
Overview: Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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The Golden Bat
Overview: A teenage boy discovers that the planet Icarus is on a collision course with Earth by gazing through his telescope. Scoffed at by the scientific establishment, the boy is kidnapped and brought to a secret UN base in the Japan alps. He is immediately inducted into the secret program whose mission is to finish the Super-Destruction Beam cannon and destroy Icarus. The cannon is missing a special mineral for the lens. The team heads for a mysterious island in the middle of the Pacific. There they find ancient ruins of Atlantis but they are suddenly attacked by a strange drill shaped metal squid spaceship. It's commanded by the evil being Nazu who has engineered the collision with Icarus! He doesn't want to share the universe with humans and he really doesn't want the cannon finished. The action is on and the team discovers the Golden Bat who has been asleep for over 10,000 years awaiting this very moment to save the earth!
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Zoku ôsho
Overview: Adaptation of novel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
Overview: Hidejuro is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejuro must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-03-06
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The Pledge
Overview: When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-30
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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder
Overview: A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-01-11
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Code Between Brothers: All New
Overview: When the boss of the Nakano Family decides to retire and makes a loyal follower the new boss instead of his own son, it causes strife in the family. Sides are taken and lines are drawn. Meanwhile, a rival family with a land dispute with the Nakano starts pulling strings behind the scenes...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-04-10
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Yokosuka Navy Prison
Overview: When a rebellious roughneck enlists in the Navy and goes on a rampage against his superiors, he is sent to the Yokosuka Naval Prison.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-11-17
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Glorious Fights
Overview: A young leader of the Yamazaki family of Nagasaki, Takida (Ken Takakura) is an A-bomb survivor. He fiercely battles violent elements in southern Japan like there is no tomorrow.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-29
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Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Overview: Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-04-01
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The Horrible Obsessions
Overview: Detective Kikuchi is sent to Okinawa to investigate why a girl jumped from a window after shooting heroin. There, he encounters the usual assortment of addicts, dealers, pimps and sleazy American GIs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-12-16
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
Overview: Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two families?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-06
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Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
Overview: An honorable yakuza syndicate deeply rooted in Kyoto fights for survival when a new breed of gangsters threaten their very existence.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1969-11-20
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Flower Cards Chivalry
Overview: An absolutely astonishing art house ninkyo yakuza film. Wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with old man. They are both arrested by detective. A year later gambler is staying with gangster boss when he comes across that woman and her partner again. Boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way. And here lies one of the film's remarkable departures from the standard ninkyo efforts: it doesn't have a third party villain, nor a clear distinction between good and evil. It's bursting with romantic emotion and wrenched with gritty realism, shot with striking black and white compositions, and explodes into shocking carnage. It has lengthier, more detailed gambling scenes than any other yakuza film I've seen. And it has a heartbreakingly beautiful score. You could call it the Ashes of Time of ninkyo yakuza films. A masterpiece!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Tale of Japanese Burglars
Overview: Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Tale of Young Drifter
Overview: Young boys learn survival skills on a remote island and rescue a girl abducted by a gang of foreigners.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-07-26
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Shōwa Gokudōshi
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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A Flower in a Neon Jungle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-06-20
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Rogue Of The Night
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Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-06-15
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Woman His Prey
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Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-30
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