Masazumi Okabe
Also Known As: 岡部正純, Seijun Okabe, Okabe Seijun
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sakaide, Kagawa Prefectue, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: June 13, 1935
Age: 89 years old
Gender: Male
Popularity:
Known For:
新婚シリーズ 最初が肝心
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-02-07
Popularity:
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
Overview:
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-04-20
Popularity:
Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-09-22
Popularity:
Gang's Upward Strategy
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-12-18
Popularity:
Life of Hishakaku 3
Overview: Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-03-01
Popularity:
Nerves for Victory
Overview: A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-08-26
Popularity:
Gem Beauty
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-01-02
Popularity:
Farewell Rabaul
Overview: A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have little regard for life. Seeking the companionship of any woman who will have them, they spend their days indulging in every fantasy in order to escape the overwhelming fear of death looming just over the horizon.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1954-02-10
Popularity:
Police Precinct: Mysterious Red Phone
Overview: A young girl named Michiko is kidnapped and later found dead in a bag. But the kidnapper strikes again. The 18th work from the series "Keishicho Monogatari".
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-06-24
Popularity:
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Overview: A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-12-06
Popularity:
Secret
Overview:
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-05
Popularity:
The Outsiders
Overview: A drama about relations between Japanese immigrants and the indigenous Ainu on Hokkaido, the most northerly island of Japan. From a novel by Taijun Takeda.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1958-11-26
Popularity:
Ken-chan no oneesan
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-02
Popularity:
Here Because of You
Overview: An uplifting drama about the bond between a group of high school seniors and their kind-hearted teacher, Mr. Yabuki. Faced with the rigors of growing up in modern times, students often look to Mr. Yabuki for advice and guidance. But when Mr. Yabuki’s career is threatened as a result of a false accusation from the school’s PTA, the students band together to stand up for their beloved teacher and help him to save his good reputation and job.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-05-23
Popularity:
The Second Bullet is Marked
Overview: Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-01-27
Popularity:
Kashima-nada no onna
Overview: Drama about the lives of seasonal migrant workers in Kashima
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-10-07
Popularity:
Crimson Night Dream
Overview:
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-08-26
Popularity:
Nerai uchi buraikan
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-10-06
Popularity:
Curry Rice
Overview: 1962 Japanese movie
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-11-23
Popularity:
Run, Genta, Run!
Overview: A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-22
Popularity:
The Seven Faces of Bannai Tarao, Private Eye
Overview: Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1956-01-03
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Overview: A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
Genres: Drama Mystery War
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-03-12
Popularity:
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
Overview: As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-01-15
Popularity:
Modern Lady Gambler
Overview: Fujiko wanders aimlessly through the country, seeking vengence on the man she onced loved, who betrayed her, and destroying her family and her life. When she discovers that man had already died, she loses her will to live. But in a twist of fate, she meets Tatsumi, a raising star in the Horikawa Family. She quickly falls in love with him and his yakuza lifstyle. But when Tatsumi is chosen to but the next Boss of the family, his jealous sworn brother Morito kills him with the help of a mysterious man behind the scenes. Now Fujiko becomes a Bakuto, a wandering yakuza gambler, and once again, walks the bloody path of vengence...
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-05-26
Popularity:
Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san
Overview: Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-10-22
Popularity:
Brutal Tales of Chivalry
Overview: After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa and his gang take hold of goods from the US military, black-market and controlled items in order to become the most powerful group in Enko area.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1965-10-01
Popularity:
Turtle Geisha
Overview: Natsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In the end, she’s pitted against a sexual superman and a showdown ensues. There’s also a subplot about a mad scientist type who needs vaginal juices to create a potion designed to turn Japanese girls black.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-07-03
Popularity:
Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Devil's Rose
Overview: The first installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.
Genres: Action Science Fiction Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-11-24
Popularity:
Devil's Nursery Rhyme
Overview: 1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-11-15
Popularity:
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
Popularity:
Invasion of the Neptune Men
Overview: Astronomer Shinichi Tachibana has a secret identity as the superhero "Iron Sharp" and is well beloved by children. When they are attacked by a group of metallic aliens, Iron Sharp drives the aliens away. The resourceful Tachibana helps develop an electric barrier to block the aliens from coming to the Earth. After several losses by the aliens, they announce that they will invade the Earth, throwing the world into a state of panic.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-07-19
Popularity:
Message from Space
Overview: The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.
Genres: Action Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-29
Popularity:
Red Diamond
Overview: After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the azuki beans market. A young man tries to regain his wealth in the bean market.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1964-10-14
Popularity:
The Beast and the Magic Sword
Overview: His bloodline damned by a witch, Waldemar Daninsky heads to Japan to seek a cure for his werewolf curse.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1983-11-25
Popularity:
Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm
Overview: Shinichi “Sonny” Chiba returns as the reckless son of a private detective takes on the case of a minor league baseball pitcher who disappears right before signing a contract into the major leagues. Meanwhile, the body of an orthopedist is discovered in the river.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-09-13
Popularity:
The Eleventh Hour
Overview: Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a figure of speech — (essentially “last minute” or “eleventh hour”) — that refers to a situation of peril. The film boasts a script co-written by Uchida and Akira Kurosawa’s frequent screenwriter, Shinobu Hashimoto, and stars Kurosawa’s frequent star Takashi Shimura.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1957-11-24
Popularity:
Four Sisters
Overview: A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1962-07-01
Popularity:
Speed Crazy
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1959-12-20
Popularity:
Game of Chance
Overview: Bungo becomes a single parent when his wife leaves him because of his drinking and gambling. Deciding to quit his vices, he works menial jobs, drifting from city to city. However, not completely losing his gambling tastes, he became a hunted man and must escape to Tokyo after he was found cheating at dice. Bungo and his son Kenichi comes upon the Kizaki Family in Asakusa, where more troubles are awaiting them...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1966-10-22
Popularity:
Megumi no Sekai
Overview: A unique combination of social problem and entertainment TV movie about a female journalist who is hurt to the core when the truth of an article is questioned.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-04-19
Popularity:
Organized Violence
Overview: A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1967-02-25
Popularity:
The Man of Seven Faces
Overview: Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1960-04-26
Popularity:
Botchan yarō seizoroi
Overview: 1961 Japanese movie
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-01-09
Popularity:
A Devil of a Gentleman
Overview:
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1963-04-06
Popularity:
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 4
Overview: Samon, who had left his position as a police constable, embarks on a journey. During his travel, he is attacked by a group of masked bandits and sufferes a deep wound on his way back to Edo at the request of Magistrate Toyama. Saved by Dr. Kazumichi, Samon is asked by Toyama to identify an informant among the members of the lightning gang, a group of cruel thieves wreaking havoc throughout Edo. Samon then becomes an assistant to the firefighter squad led by Naito Hayato-masamune. One night, while rushing to the oil merchant Tambaya, who is attacked by the robbers, Samon and his group discovered a trembling young girl Oso who is the only survivor of the massacre and has lost her voice due to terror.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1984-03-15
Popularity:
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
Overview: Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken for a snitch and about to be beaten up when he was saved by the quick thinking of a ferryman Sanji. The infiltration is the plan of Samon and chief elder Abe Isenokami, who has asked Samon to obtain smuggling evidence against shipping whole retailers Kawachiya Senemon and his son Sennosuke.
Genres: Action Drama History
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-01-21
Popularity:
The Edo Fortune-Teller
Overview: Karasudo, who charges 16 mon for his fortune-telling skill, asks for nothing when it comes to swordplay. His merciless blade is stained with the blood of his enemies when he uncovers a sinister plot and finds that his martial arts skill must be called into action. An unusual and highly entertaining story, about a man not to be trifled with.
Genres: Action History Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-07-13
Popularity:
大時計の美女 江戸川乱歩の「幽霊塔」
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-12-04
Popularity:
The Insatiable
Overview: Yuki Onozaki, who was studying at a Women's College in Tokyo, was originally a young and ignorant girl, but her life changed completely in the summer of a certain year. During the summer vacation, Yuki returned to her hometown of Kyoto, only to be raped by the lover of her mother. Yuki then abandoned her studies and chose a depraved life. She met the gang leader Kiyoshi Oba and factory industrialists. Although these men could give her more or less physical comfort, they could not open Yuki's locked heart. It was not until the appearance of the young architect Yoichiro Honma that Yuki's love flower gradually bloomed. Soon, Yoichiro's first love while studying in France, Sandra, finds her, which makes Yuki's heart surge. After several twists and turns, Yoichiro decided to marry Yuki, but the trials never stopped...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-12-17
Popularity:
Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō
Overview: Chiezo's two-guns-at-all-costs film, directed by Ozawa Shigehiro (Kengo Tengu Matsuri) from a screenplay by Matsuura Kenro (The Dice Magistrate). Shot by Nishikawa Shoei (I Am the Magician of Hell).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1961-04-21
Popularity: