Takeshige Hatanaka
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan
Adult: No
Birthday: January 08, 1948
Age: 77 years old
Gender: Male
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Virus
Overview: Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-06-26
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Curse of the Dog God
Overview: A trio of young scientists investigate a source of uranium at the base of a sacred mountain, and after running over a dog, find themselves cursed by the locals.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-06-18
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
Overview: The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Shizu. In the process of trying to capture her, the clan murders her entire family, but Princess Shizu escapes their clutches. She enlists the aid of eight samurai warriors, possessors of powerful magic crystal, led by Dosetsu (Sonny Chiba!) to help rescue the remaining members of her court and revenge her family. Along the way, they must fight undead warriors, evil spirits, poisonous beauties and a giant centipede.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1983-12-10
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers
Overview: The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-10-25
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The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
Overview: When a priceless jewel owned by rich heiress Sabine is stolen, along with her daughter, Professional thief and hired killer Ryuichi Koga and his gang are hired to retrieve both. At a ransom exchange, the team save the girl but lose the money and the jewel. When Sabine decides to deal directly with the thieves and obtains the jewel on her own by paying the ransom, Koga, having been stiffed of his fee by Sabine, steals the jewel. Little does he know, it’s a fake. Now, Koga and the team must break into a high security bank to steal the real jewel.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-12-28
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A Single Flower Withered
Overview: Shiratori Shinichi, is released from prison and now roams the streets in search of his sister. While at a red-light district in Chiba, Shiratori finds out that his sister is in Tokyo. However, things take turn for the worse as he gets into a fight with the local Handa gang...
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-10-05
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
Overview: Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-07-29
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Karate Killer
Overview: Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1973-10-13
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Festival Champ
Overview: Hiroki Matsukata is a fish market worker and a fanatical Japanese festival rascal. He also falls in love with a stripper while delivering his colleague's love letter to her but forgetting to mention it's from another man.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-05-29
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Violent Fraternity
Overview: Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-11-01
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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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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 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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Graveyard of Honor
Overview: A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-02-15
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Violent Streets
Overview: With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
Genres: Crime Drama Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1974-04-13
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Wolf Guy
Overview: Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers.
Genres: Crime Horror Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1975-04-04
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A Kamikaze Cop
Overview: An undercover cop befriends a yakuza underling who through his contacts helps him infiltrate two rival Yakuza gangs. He pits the two rival gangs against each other in hopes that they will cross each other out.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-05-23
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Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
Overview: After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1972-08-25
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Samurai Reincarnation
Overview: After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage.
Genres: Action Fantasy Horror
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-06-06
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Proof of the Man
Overview: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1977-10-08
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Dead Angle
Overview: Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-07-04
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０計画を阻止せよ－総理大臣誘拐！！－
Overview: Samonji, a reporter, receives a message on his answering machine from his friend Takada that says "stop it... zero plan! February." Learning that Takada is dead, Samonji begins an investigation. He and his younger sister Fumiko investigate major events happening in February but cannot find anything relevant. Meanwhile, Kanzaki, a doctor who works at a clinic on a remote island, is working on a plan to extort two billion yen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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A Kawachi Rascal's Song
Overview: Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in love with such a man...
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Thugs of Shinjuku
Overview: Fresh out of jail, a smart-mouth wise guy Goro takes the name “Big Brother Katsumata.” Not fitting in well with established gangs, he forms a rag-tag gang called “the Shinjuku Brothers.” The members of their gang are thugs who only wish they were traditional yakuza. When they turn up at the funeral for a gangster, they are not welcomed, but a senior boss intervenes to keep things calm. The boss of bosses invites them to join a respected local council of warlords. Katsumata is suspicious of why such powerful men would extend an invitation to lowlife like himself.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1970-12-18
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Patience Has An End
Overview: Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1971-06-25
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The Execution Game
Overview: The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.
Genres: Thriller Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1979-11-17
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Karate Warriors
Overview: Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1976-04-10
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