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Acting
Hiroshi Date
Born August 22, 1931 · Kyoto, Japan (age 95)
No biography available.
Known For
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable · 1973Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
★ 6.81973
MovieDramaAction
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.
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41 · 1972Female Prisoner Scorpion: Jailhouse 41
★ 7.11972
MovieActionDrama
After being used and betrayed by the detective she had fallen in love with, young Matsu is sent to a female prison full of sadistic guards and disobedient prisoners.
Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza · 1968Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
★ 7.01968
MovieCrime
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.
Violent Streets · 1974Violent Streets
★ 6.81974
MovieCrimeDrama
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.
The Bodyguard · 1973The Bodyguard
★ 5.11973
MovieActionThriller
Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?
Violent Fraternity · 1974Violent Fraternity
★ 8.01974
MovieCrimeAction
Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.
Criminal Woman: Killing Melody · 1973Criminal Woman: Killing Melody
★ 6.71973
MovieActionCrime
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.
Karate Warriors · 1976Karate Warriors
★ 6.91976
MovieDramaAction
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.
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