Isao Tamagawa
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 9.393 |
Birthday | 1922-01-11 |
Place of Birth | Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan |
Also Known As |
1965
Kwaidan
7.7/373
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit...
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Kwaidan
1964
Homecoming
0/0
Moriya Tomoko, a young girl working for a publishing company, is told by a woman art dealer that her real father did not die, as everyone believes, du...
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Homecoming
1966
Tokyo Drifter
7.1/181
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo...
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Tokyo Drifter
1967
Branded to Kill
7.2/230
After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
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Branded to Kill
1980
Zigeunerweisen
6.5/41
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculi...
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Zigeunerweisen
1977
Mount Hakkoda
6.8/13
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia.
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Mount Hakkoda
1968
The Sands of Kurobe
6.2/5
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of t...
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The Sands of Kurobe
1992
A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
4/1
A semi-autobiographical film about a young man from Tokyo who moves to Hirosaki in the early Shōwa era. A straight-to-video production made for the Hi...
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A Tale of Youth at Hirosaki High School
1970
The Militarists
8/1
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The Militarists
1971
Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
5.8/6
Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...
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Men and War II: Land of Love and Sorrow
1968
若い川の流れ
0/0
The story follows Misako Kitaoka, a junior college graduate and Nitto Lease sales department employee, as she grows through work, love, and friendship...
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若い川の流れ
1969
Safari 5000
7.3/3
A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is enl...
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Safari 5000
1965
Seishun no Sabaki
0/0
University karate club member Kikuo is actually the son of a yakuza boss. However, he disliked his father's business and never spoke about his family...
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Seishun no Sabaki
1966
Fighting Elegy
7/33
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually,...
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Fighting Elegy
1964
The Flower and the Angry Waves
6.9/9
A young yakuza in love with the girl who's to marry his clan oyabun, kidnaps the girl before fleeing with her. In Tokyo, he hides under the identity o...
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The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964
Profit from Killing
0/0
The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Satoshi Tsuzuki r...
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Profit from Killing
1968
Outlaw: Heartless
6.6/8
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This...
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Outlaw: Heartless
1976
Cobra 2
0/0
Japanese crime film.
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Cobra 2
1965
Story of a Prostitute
6.6/34
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal...
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Story of a Prostitute
1963
To Your Majesty, The Emperor
0/0
A conscript from a poor background writes the Emperor asking if he can stay in the army when his service is up.
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To Your Majesty, The Emperor
1984
Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
0/0
Japanese comedy film.
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Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
1962
Tokyo Bay
7/1
An investigation into a drug smuggler who is assassinated in front of an insurance building sets two detectives, Sumikawa and Akine, into a sprawling...
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Tokyo Bay
1977
The Visitor in the Eye
6/3
Komori Tiaki is a budding tennis student. However, one day in training her coach hits the ball into her eye accidentally. She is taken to hospital but...
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The Visitor in the Eye
1975
Graveyard of Honor
6.7/45
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Graveyard of Honor
1964
Pale Flower
7.4/103
A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo...
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Pale Flower
1972
Shadow Hunters
6.5/4
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hun...
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Shadow Hunters
1970
Hazardous Graduation
4/2
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.
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Hazardous Graduation
1969
Penitentiary Brothers
0/0
Authentic action drama of modern gangsters.
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Penitentiary Brothers
1977
Sweet Revenge
6.6/5
Masao is falsely accused and jailed for the murder of a loanshark to whom he owed a lot of money. His sister Kiriko makes the long trip to Tokyo, spec...
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Sweet Revenge
1965
House of Terrors
5.7/13
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant...
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House of Terrors
1963
Tale of Army Brutality
10/1
Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World...
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Tale of Army Brutality
1969
The Rough One
0/0
A tale of wannabe yakuza youths. When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Zenkichi develops a crush on Taro's disgusted sister, Miki. But soon the...
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The Rough One
1972
Cross-Currents
6/1
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
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Cross-Currents
1965
The Stars and I Decided...
0/0
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
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The Stars and I Decided...
1978
Take Me Away!
6/1
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Toky...
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Take Me Away!
1964
The Flower and the Sword
0/0
A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful gan...
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The Flower and the Sword
1980
Port Arthur
7.6/10
Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (...
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Port Arthur
1979
The Fall of Teenager
2/1
High school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a chaotic home life, ultimately succumbing to alcohol, mar...
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The Fall of Teenager
1964
Gate of Flesh
6.6/57
In the shady black markets and bombed-out hovels of post–World War II Tokyo, a tough band of prostitutes eke out a dog-eat-dog existence, maintaining...
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Gate of Flesh
1981
Kagero-za
6.5/23
A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.
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Kagero-za
1977
Utamaro's World
5.6/7
Utamaro was an artist who lived in Edo (which was later to become modern-day Tokyo) in the late 18th century. This film, which has a complex and wide-...
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Utamaro's World
1966
Zero Fighter
0/0
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Zero Fighter
1956
Twice on a Certain Night
0/0
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notic...
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Twice on a Certain Night
1954
The Street Without Sun
0/0
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The Street Without Sun
1977
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
5.5/12
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
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A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness
1966
Kokoro no sanmyaku
0/0
A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
1967
Japan's Longest Day
7.1/28
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies...
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Japan's Longest Day
1956
Actress
0/0
Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.
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