Masaru Shiga
Japanese actor and singer.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.095 |
| Birthday | 1942-01-13 |
| Place of Birth | Kyōto, Kyōto Prefecture, Japan |
| Also Known As | 志賀勝, 志贺胜, |
1977
Karate for Life
6.6/13
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a...
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Karate for Life
2006
Hula Girls
6.7/51
Young women in a small Japanese town look to revive their home's declining fortunes by building a Hawaiian village tourist attraction.
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Hula Girls
1975
Story of a Nymphomaniac
4.3/3
Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to u...
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Story of a Nymphomaniac
1977
The General and His Empire of Joy
4.5/3
Zenjiro (Masaru Shiga) is a lowlife criminal, roaming the country with his merry band of crooks, gamblers and rapists. When he gets done with his late...
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The General and His Empire of Joy
2013
Miroku
0/0
Through philosophical and science themed imagination, Emile questions everything from his teenage years to adult life.
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Miroku
2003
My House
6.3/3
A young Japanese boy's life is changed when his sister returns to the small island, full of eccentric characters, where he lives.
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My House
1979
No Grave for Us
5.8/5
A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...
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No Grave for Us
1979
Dead Angle
7/1
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.
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Dead Angle
1998
Friendship
0/0
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...
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Friendship
1987
Be-Bop High School: A Dunce Rhapsody
0/0
College student Mayumi takes a mutual interest in Hiroshi, but their happiness is cut short when two thugs expelled from school eye the new couple.
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Be-Bop High School: A Dunce Rhapsody
1977
Nuns That Bite
6.7/7
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulan...
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Nuns That Bite
1976
The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
7/6
Chiba, looking gnarly, and acting as animalistic as ever, stars alongside Matsukata as violent gangsters battling their way through fight after bloody...
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The Great Okinawa Yakuza War
1997
King of Sha-kin
0/0
In late 90s Osaka, three people from various walks of life meet by chance. They team up to orchestrate a complex financial con targeting crooked busin...
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King of Sha-kin
1977
Doberman Cop
6.652/23
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the grizzly murder of an Okinawa woman. As he probes deeper into...
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Doberman Cop
1976
Yakuza Graveyard
6.4/23
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own...
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Yakuza Graveyard
1974
New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
5.333/12
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attemp...
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.382/102
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
7.333/60
Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in love...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1969
The Fort of Death
6.714/7
The second Bounty Hunter film, when master killer Shikoro Ichibei takes up the cause of a group of farmers being driven to despair by the vile Lord Oz...
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The Fort of Death
1974
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
6.9/38
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 di...
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1977
Decapitation of an Evil Woman
6.2/4
An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Po...
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Decapitation of an Evil Woman
1969
Yakuza on Foot
5/1
An Osaka gangster Shimamura just got married. His new bride, Mineko is also involved in drug trafficking. When she goes to China to make a deal, thing...
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Yakuza on Foot
1978
Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
7/1
The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan.
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Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1966
Samurai Wolf
7.2/26
This is the story of a vagrant samurai – the solitary, savage and scrupulous Kiba – who arrives at a village to defend a beautiful, blind woman agains...
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Samurai Wolf
1976
A Savage Beast Goes Mad
6.333/6
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fi...
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad
1968
The Marked Man
0/0
A man from Osaka comes up to Tokyo to fight gangsterism.
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The Marked Man
1977
Gambling Code and Feuds
0/0
It is the first Toei yakuza film directed by Akinori Matsuo, who was active in Nikkatsu action movies. It is a local yakuza movie made following Okina...
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Gambling Code and Feuds
1972
A Yakuza Has His Way
0/0
The eighth installment in the popular film series starring Tomisaburo Wakayama. Embarrassed by the chairman of the Seiyu-kai for not having a family c...
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A Yakuza Has His Way
1997
King of Sha-kin 2
0/0
A normal banker decides to take on the loan sharks and yakuza.
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King of Sha-kin 2
1974
Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
5/4
Gokudo Shimamura comes to blows with the Delinquent Boss who rolls into town with his motorcycle gang.
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Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
1970
Silk Hat Boss
0/0
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series sta...
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Silk Hat Boss
1970
The Silk Hat Boss 2
0/0
The Silk Hat Boss becomes involved in a car imports business during his trip to Atami.
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The Silk Hat Boss 2
1988
The Boss' Wife
5/2
The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a...
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The Boss' Wife
1973
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.216/116
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
1967
Eleven Samurai
7.5/22
The lord of the Oshi fief is killed by his trespassing neighbour, the cruel and despotic Nariatsu, son of the former Shogun. After an investigation, t...
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Eleven Samurai
1968
Wicked Priest
5.7/5
During the Taisho Period (early 1920's) a monastery of warrior monks was split apart between two factions. One of these factions was led by the Chief...
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Wicked Priest
1972
The Pledge
5/5
When Omuro Yahachi of the Omuro family is selected as Mutsumikai Soke's successor, the conflict between the Kitakyushu and Wakamatsu begins.
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The Pledge
1980
The First Catch
1/1
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.
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The First Catch
1967
Code Between Brothers 5
6.5/4
Saburo Kitajima, one of Japan’s most famous Enka singers, returns in the fifth of the Kyodai Jingi series. During the early 20th century, Ryuji from A...
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Code Between Brothers 5
1972
Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
7/1
Monjiro, reunited with his long lost sister, is pursued by a yakuza gang because he killed their boss. He also meets a fellow gambler who idolizes Mon...
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Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth
1981
Blue Jeans Memory
0/0
A trio of high school boys get summer jobs at a seaside resort. Soon, however, they learn that the woman who runs it is in financial trouble. The thre...
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Blue Jeans Memory
1975
Company Buggers
7/1
Hiroshi, a small-time racketeer, makes a name for himself extorting vulnerable companies and their directors for financial gain.
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Company Buggers
1972
The Brawling Angel
0/0
Ninkyo with Hideki Takahashi.
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The Brawling Angel
1969
The Cross of Vengeance
0/0
Film with Junko Miyazono.
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The Cross of Vengeance
1990
KILL THEM ALL
0/0
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KILL THEM ALL
1971
Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
7.3/5
The seventh chapter of the stunning Hibotan Bakuto series. Many years have passed since Oryu the Red Peony began her soul-searching journey after her...
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Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
1976
Operation Plazma in Osaka
6.5/2
Amidst Japan's postwar economic boom, yakuza factions in Osaka fight for survival when Japan's largest crime syndicate plans a hostile takeover.
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Operation Plazma in Osaka
1972
Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
7.4/4
The final chapter of the Hibotan Bakuto series. Oryu the Red Peony visits an old dying Boss of an ally family and promised her that she would help gui...
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Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
1975
The Viper Brothers and the Young General
0/0
The last in the series. Sugawara runs into two mahjong cheaters (Ichiro Araki and Mako Midori + sidekick Takuzo Kawatani) whom he takes for friends in...
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The Viper Brothers and the Young General
1968
Ninja's Mark
6.2/6
When the Shogun Tokugawa III is in bed with a girl, she turns into a monster. The court believes she is Ninja Magic, used to frighten the lord off wom...
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Ninja's Mark
1974
The Tattooed Hitman
6/3
The most dangerous hired gun in Kyushu's underworld has managed to trigger a vicious gang war, and now, there's a contract on his life. Though nobody...
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The Tattooed Hitman
2003
Another Battle/Conspiracy
0/0
Katsunori Takahashi and Ken Watanabe star in a modern yakuza tale in the classic Japanese film series, Battles Without Honor and Humanity, directed by...
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Another Battle/Conspiracy
2000
Kizu Darake no Jingi
0/0
Inside the Todo-gumi, the confrontation between the young head of the martial arts group and the young assistant head of the moderate group continued....
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Kizu Darake no Jingi
2007
The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
7/5
A freelance writer is given a bizarre assignment by the sexy editor of "Black Book Monthly": find a bug with the power to bring humans back from the d...
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The Insects Unlisted in the Encyclopedia
2000
Debt King Part VII: Millennium
0/0
Takao, the owner of a coffee shop and brother-in-law to Anzai, the assistant manager of Hikari Bank, Osaka central branch, is caught in a scam by an o...
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Debt King Part VII: Millennium
1972
The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
0/0
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1974
The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
0/0
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to d...
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The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
1976
Violent Panic: The Big Crash
4.5/2
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother,...
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash
1967
Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
0/0
The second part of the Gamblers series.
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Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
1967
Gambler: Victory Without Death
6/1
Tsunetaro Asakura AKA "Dynamite Tsune" is a talented gambler, but not infallable. After losing his Boss's money in a dice game he repays his debt by s...
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Gambler: Victory Without Death
2000
Another Battle
6/2
Former childhood friends Kadoya Kaneo and Tochino Masatatsu cross paths again. Kaneo is now a yakuza member, while Masatatsu is a nightclub owner with...
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Another Battle
1992
Gokudo Steak III
0/0
A deadly battle with mercenaries and a confrontation with big brother Yazaki!
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Gokudo Steak III
2001
Jitsuroku Yozakura Ginji 2
0/0
Straight to video sequel
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Jitsuroku Yozakura Ginji 2
1990
1750 Days of Turbulence
8.5/2
After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.
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1750 Days of Turbulence
2008
Sorrowful Hitman
0/0
A Hitman must protect a 15-year-old girl
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Sorrowful Hitman
1977
Japan's Don
7.5/2
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Japan's Don
1970
Silk Hat Boss
0/0
In a strange outfit and full of youthful energy, the explosive Boss Kumatora raises hell like there's no tomorrow. The first movie of a new series sta...
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Silk Hat Boss
1974
The Rapacious Jailbreaker
6.5/2
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker
1979
A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun
7/1
Ninth movie in the Torakku Yarō series. Momojiro travels to Nagano to take Jonathan's place driving logging freight through the mountains. There he me...
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A 5,000 Kilometer Run under The Scorching Sun
1973
Sex and Fury
6.1/82
Sex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified by unique tattoos on their backs (a deer, a boar, and...
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Sex and Fury
1994
The Man Who Shot the Don
0/0
Horai serves an 18 year sentence for killing a rival boss, but right before his release he is attacked.
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The Man Who Shot the Don
1979
The Rivals
0/0
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The Rivals
1968
Return of the Outlaw
0/0
Second film of the Gokudo series starring Tomisaburô Wakayama
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Return of the Outlaw
1969
The Yakuza Awaits
0/0
Forth film in the Gokudo series with Tomisaburô Wakayama
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The Yakuza Awaits
1998
King of Sha-kin 3
0/0
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King of Sha-kin 3
1998
King of Sha-kin 4
0/0
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King of Sha-kin 4
1999
Debt King Part V: Project Okinawa
0/0
Mizunuma is struggling to pay back his debts as always, and flies to Okinawa in an attempt to illegally sell a diamond that he confiscated from the ya...
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Debt King Part V: Project Okinawa
1999
Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa
0/0
Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants to...
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Debt King Part VI: Legendary Speculator in Naniwa
2001
King of Sha-kin 8
0/0
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King of Sha-kin 8
2002
King of Sha-kin: Final
0/0
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King of Sha-kin: Final
1968
A History of the Japanese Underworld
0/0
The hero tries to unite various gangs.
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A History of the Japanese Underworld
2000
Hiroshima Yakuza War
0/0
After World War II, in Hiroshima, the Yakuza clans start a war for control of the city.
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Hiroshima Yakuza War
1971
Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
6/1
A high-ranking yakuza rises to national notoriety.
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Evil Boss vs. Henchmen
1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
7.1/132
In the third film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades
2002
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
6.7/28
After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing oth...
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
1976
Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
0/0
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Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On
1977
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
10/1
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
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Japanese Godfather: Ambition
2009
Road to New Don 4
0/0
The fourth 'Road to New Don' film.
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Road to New Don 4
2009
Road to New Don 5
0/0
The fifth 'Road to New Don' film.
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Road to New Don 5
2009
Road to New Don 6
0/0
The Sixth 'Road to New Don' film.
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Road to New Don 6
2001
Don Woman
0/0
Yakuza Girl Boss film.
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Don Woman
2001
Don Woman 2
0/0
It's 'Don Woman 2'... you already knew!
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Don Woman 2
2002
Don Woman 3
0/0
It's 'Don Woman 3'... Are you ready to see?
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Don Woman 3
2008
Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 7
0/0
The seventh 'Yakuza Emblem' film.
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Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 7
1967
Eighteen Years in Prison
9/2
A former soldier is caught working the black market and sent to prison while his partner escapes and goes on to become a gangster, but their paths cro...
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Eighteen Years in Prison
2008
Emperor of the Underworld The Man Called Capone
0/0
2008 Original Video.
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Emperor of the Underworld The Man Called Capone
1969
Brothers Serving Time
8/1
While imprisoned, Tatsu encounters Danshi, a man who is a big honcho in the prison pecking order. After initial conflict they become sworn brothers. T...
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Brothers Serving Time
2000
The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
0/0
#31 in the King of Minami series. A washed-up yakuza named Fukunaga borrows money from Manda, unwittingly involving him in a sinister murder plot.
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The King of Minami: Yakuza in Debt
1974
The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
0/0
With a Kansai syndicate vying for Tokyo, one man reunites with his roguish half-brother in the midst of negotiations, when all hell breaks loose.
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The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
1974
Code of Wolves
7/1
In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
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Code of Wolves
2000
Hiroshima Yakuza War: Finale
0/0
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Hiroshima Yakuza War: Finale
2013
The Daimon 2
0/0
The second in the series about a former businessman who rises in the world of the yakuza. Monjiro Tashiro sets out on his path. As war with the Hamaik...
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The Daimon 2
2013
The Daimon
0/0
Based on the manga of the same name, this hard-boiled action drama depicts the life of a man torn between being a respectable civilian and a respected...
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