Takeshi Caesar
Also Known As: Caesar TAKESHI, Tomofumi Murata
Biography: Takeshi Caesar (born Tomofumi Murata) is a Japanese actor and retired martial artist. Caesar is also the founder of the 'shoot boxing' combat sport. In film, he is most known for his collaborations with Takashi Miike on various features, most notably Shinjuku Triad Society (1995), and Fudo: The New Generation (1996).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Yamaguchi, Yamaguchi, Japan
Birthday: August 17, 1955
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Gender: Male
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Full Metal Yakuza
Overview: After being brutally murdered in a gangster-style execution, Kensuke Hagane finds himself brought back to life by a mad scientist and rebuilt as a robot-human hybrid with a serious thirst for vengeance and the tools to carry it out.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-12-05
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Shinjuku Triad Society
Overview: Tatsuhito, a cop, pursues Chinese warlord Wang through the underworld of Shinjuku and over to Taiwan.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-08-26
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Young Thugs: Nostalgia
Overview: Nostalgia is Takashi Miike’s favorite film of his considerable body of work. Including biographical elements, Nostalgia centers around the home and school of a young boy, whose family mix the violent and dysfunctional with the comic and the loveable. Though containing elements of the sudden and shocking brutality that many associate with this director, Young Thugs – Nostalgia is more concerned with a child’s moment of leaving the internalized world of fantasy, and passing on eagerly to the next stage of life. A wonderful, touching, startling vision that is uniquely Miike’s.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1998-09-26
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Fighting Knife Yoshi
Overview: Kazuki spends his days training to leave his home town and become the best cook in Japan.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-07-14
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Fighting Knife Yoshi 2
Overview: Sequel to 'Fighting Knife Yoshi'
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2000-11-10
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The Way to Fight
Overview: Dangerous street fighter Kazuyoshi Tamai finds out that his rival, Takeshi, is the leader of a gang responsible for a series of assaults. Kazuyoshi is ready to face off against Takeshi, but comic challenges keep his nemesis out of reach. It's not until years later -- when Kazuyoshi becomes a championship boxer and Takeshi is a pro wrestler -- that they meet again in a battle that pits two combatants with very different fighting styles.
Genres: Drama Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-27
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Hell Dogs
Overview: Bent on revenge, a traumatized ex-police officer must infiltrate a yakuza organization by befriending one of the group's most unhinged members.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2022-09-16
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Fudoh: The New Generation
Overview: In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-10-12
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Kamikaze Taxi
Overview: A young foot soldier in the yakuza seeks revenge when his prostitute girlfriend dies after a session with a high-ranking Japanese politician with a taste for torture. He sets out on a 'kamikaze' mission to kill his bosses and the politician; along the way, he acquires the aid of a taxi driver who has recently returned to Japan after living in South America for several decades and is struggling to cope with poverty and the prejudices of native-born Japanese.
Genres: Crime Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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Young Thugs: Innocent Blood
Overview: Young Thugs: Innocent Blood follows three friends through their first year after leaving high school. Having robbed their teacher on their last day, Ryoko gets a job in a hair salon, while the two boys settle down into a career of enforcement and protection.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1997-06-21
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極悪 人間魚雷ブルース
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-01-21
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New Third Gangster
Overview: When Masaki find themselves at a bar owned by his friend Akemi and ponder the recent strange happenings. He later accepted a proposal from his old rival Hattori and join the Todo-gang. A member, Hazama, beeing jealous over Masakis high rank and starts planning ways to get rid of the newcomer from the gang.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-01-20
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Izo
Overview: Izo is an assassin in the service of a Tosa lord and Imperial supporter. After killing dozens of the Shogun's men, Izo is captured and crucified. Instead of being extinguished, his rage propels him through the space-time continuum to present-day Tokyo. Here Izo transforms himself into a new, improved killing machine.
Genres: Action Drama Fantasy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2004-09-07
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Ley Lines
Overview: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of Miike's works, the film examines the underbelly of respectable Japanese society and the problems of assimilation faced by non-ethnically Japanese people in Japan.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-05-22
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