Known for Acting
Kōjirō Hongō was a Japanese actor best known for his work with Daiei Studios in the 1960s. Hongō won an Elan d'or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1959.
Born
February 15, 1938
Died
February 14, 2013 (age 74)
Birthplace
Okayama, Japan
Filmography
86 films, 1 show
Road to the Don Theatrical Version
2003 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
A young yakuza experiences various conflicts, tactics, betrayals, rules, etc. in the gangster world, stands out in the organization, and climbs to the top of the organization. The theatrical version of the popular video series adapted from the original work by Murakami Kazuhiko.
Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea
2003 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
Ryuji Hoshikawa (played by Ken'ichi Endô), the leader of the Hoshikawa group and an executive of the Saito group, a branch of the Asahikawa Sekine Association, grew increasingly distrustful of the group's leader, Shigezo Saito (played by Johnny Okura), after being removed from his role as acting head of the Saito group. As a result, he abandoned his parent organization and his family, ultimately accepting the ceremonial sake cup from Tetsuya Kishimori (played by Kentaro Shimizu), the leader of the Kishimori group, which belongs to the massive Kinjokai organization based in the Kanto region.
Music of Remembrance -Gb-
2002 · 2h
country: Japan
A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy's entangled memories.
Nationwide Conquering: The Spirit of the Tekiya Chapter 2: Sardine Shrine and a Storm of Love
2001 · 1h 39m
country: Unknown
The second installment of this rousing entertainment series, depicting the chivalry, loyalty, and fiery human spirit of the tekiya crews! Riki Takeuchi’s new world of manly honor explodes onto the screen!
Family 2
2001 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike's sequel is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! Takashi Miike's Family, Part 2 continues the tale of the yakuza gangster named Hideshi, who must uncover the identity of the man who killed a powerful crime boss.
Nationwide Conquest: The Spirit of the Tekiya
2001 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
It depicts a world overflowing with the manly spirit of the stall vendors who run the festival. Kanji, the son who comes to inherit Kantaro’s stall-vendor business, heads to Niigata in order to save fellow stall vendors who are being attacked one after another.
Family
2001 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi discovers that Takeshi was secretly sent by their Yakuza boss to eliminate Iwaida. Meanwhile, the mobster Kenmoshi abducts Takashi's wife Mariko and rapes her, trying to force Takashi to deliver his brother to him.
History of Japan’s Yakuza — Ambition Corps 4
1999 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
After the Tenryu-kai kill the Kameda-gumi boss and Wakagashira, the Kameda-gumi move to wipe them out. Executives Saigo, Katsuragi, and Hidaka exploit a weakness in Tenryu-kai officer Hashida to locate their hideout, setting the stage for a brutal all-out war.
Embalming
1999 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Miyako, a young female embalmer, is called to restore the body of a recent suicide. While performing her duties, she pricks herself on a needle buried deep within the boy’s flesh. When the head is stolen during the night, Miyako begins a desperate search to recover it and finish her work, encountering organ harvesting, religious cults, and dark secrets from her own past along the way.
The Hidden Festival
The Hidden Festival
1998 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small remote island to seal a business deal. His predecessor almost managed to convince the island's 17 inhabitants to sell their stake and make way for a resort hotel -- that is, before he died under dubious circumstances. Takamine finds the islanders polite and kind but unwilling to discuss business; instead, they tell him to become an islander. So the city-slicker stuffed shirt loses his tie and starts to help the women plant and the men fish. He soon makes his acquaintance with Takako (Mitsuko Baisho), the widowed daughter of the island's chief. She lives alone with her crazed son who is kept Jane Eyre-style chained to a stake. One moon-lit night, their mutual attraction boils over, resulting in a naked, passionate roll on the beach.
Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza
1996 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
Yabuki's old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will survive the wrath of The Yakuza.
Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars
1995 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia.
Gamera: Guardian of the Universe
1995 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he gives to his daughter Asagi. Meanwhile, ornithologist Nagamine investigates reports of a new species of large bird named Gyaos. As the Gyaos begin to attack, an ancient guardian with a bond to Asagi emerges.
Garōden
1995 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
Based on the Baku Yumemakura martial arts serials
Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 3
1994 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara), who was thinking about the next money plan for the 200 million yen he got from the painting trick, looks at high-rate poker gambling. The target is Shinya, Saijo's sergeant. He's been crazy and has preyed on women who were dazzled by gold. Moreover, his reserve is 1.3 billion yen. If you continue the game as it is, Tetsuo will lose. Suddenly, in the latter half of the game, which was greeted by Shinya's predominance, a huge number of cardboard boxes were carried in front of Tetsuo. Who on earth for what? And what's inside !?
Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
1994 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
The second 'Gotoshi' film.
Blood Stained Crest
1994 · 1h 34m
country: Unknown
Showa 38. In those days when golden badges gleamed on lapels, the Shoryu-kai reigned in the east and the Akutsu Federation in the west. Positioned between them was the old-school Yoshida-ikka, which fell victim to a surprise attack by the Shoryu-kai that disregarded the code of honour. Witnessing this, the Akutsu Federation sent Katsuragi (Hitoshi Ozawa), assistant underboss of the Hyodo-gumi, to try to bring the Yoshida-ikka under their umbrella first. Takayama (Ken Tanaka), the second-in-command of the Yoshida Family, could not bring himself to agree to a 4:6 split, even though the proposal came from his sworn brother, Katsuragi. Meanwhile, Ōba, the second-in-command of the Hyōdō-gumi, attacked the Yoshida Family to prevent Katsuragi from taking the credit. With his boss murdered, Takayama, a long dagger in hand, quietly rises to face the challenge alone…!
The King of Minami: Loan Shark Law
1993 · 1h 32m
country: Unknown
#3 in the King of Minami series. Ginjiro Manda sets his sights on a corrupt cop named Tatsuya, who finds himself in debt to Manda after unsuccessfully trying to scam the ruthless loan shark. The pair also find themselves chasing a notorious con artist, who is himself in debt to an even more ruthless real estate tycoon.
Last Run: 100 Million Yen's Worth of Love and Betrayal
Last Run: 100 Million Yen's Worth of Love and Betrayal
1991 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
Former Formula 2 driver Morita, known as 'Kamikaze Run', is asked by Onodera, an old friend and current representative of a large trade company, to function as intermediary for an auction of vintage cars owned by Morita's former rival Gianpiero, until an accident ended both careers. Onodera invites Morita to stay in his house until the auction, but his wife seems to have a past connection with the guest, while his son takes a huge liking to him, to Onodera’s raising frustration on both fronts. Meanwhile, his wife’s younger sister has a relationship with a young driver, while Onodera cooperates with billionaire Kurosawa and Morita’s ex-lover, Kyoko, in order to rig the auction.
Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
1991 · 1h 35m
country: Japan
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
Karate for Life
1977 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
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 dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?
Tsugaru Folksong
1973 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to a couple arriving from Tokyo - the woman returning to her home, the man an escapee from the yakuza. The man doesn't seem to mind when the woman sells her favours to tourists at the local bar, just as she seems to take his attentions to Yuki, a blind girl, with equanimity.
The Woman Gambler's Iron Rule
1971 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law.
Mission: Iron Castle
1970 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever seen in the otherwise color-dominated year of 1970. Issei Mori directs Hiroki Matsukata as the reluctant leader of a small band of spies charged with kidnapping a noblewoman from a heavily ninja-proofed castle. The finality of the air slowly began to fill like smoke, and in all that had become dark the loyalty of the Ninja who dared to go shone like light as they entered a world shrouded in mystery. Things do not go as planned in what is possibly the darkest and most fatalistic of the already noir-ish 60′s fare. Both the decade and it’s distinctive style of shinobi cinema went out on a high note with Mission Iron Castle.
Haunted Castle
1969 · 1h 22m
country: Japan
A young woman turns to the supernatural to wreak revenge on a murderous warlord.
The Falcon Fighters
1969 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. Katō Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps trains new volunteers from the Army's Infantry to become Japan's next generation of fighter pilots at the Tokorozawa Flying School. Flying Kawasaki Ko-4 biplanes, Lt. Katō will train both friend and future foe alike. But as war in China breaks out, Katō now in command of the 5th Rentai will take his untested men flying antiquated planes into aerial combat against the Chinese Air Force who is now headed by Lt. Cho who Katō both earlier befriended and personally trained himself. While Katō's squadron ultimately achieves air superiority over the skies of Manchuria, it comes at a high price in men to which each loss carries a heavy burden that he alone must carry. As the war widens into the Second World War, Captain Katō must battle an ever advancing array of deadlier new enemies flying ever more modern fighter planes.
The Magoichi Saga
1969 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners.
Gateway to Glory
1969 · 2h 1m
country: Japan
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.
Lefty Fencer
1969 · 1h 16m
country: Japan
As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family's most treasured possession, the famed Drenched Swallow sword. As an adult, she has become a skilled swordswoman and lives a carefree life with her adopted family. One day, Okin saves a girl from a group of yakuza, and in doing so, gets involved in a grand conspiracy involving religious leaders, government officials, the yakuza and Lord Daizen-dayu, the man who killed her father and mutilated her body...
Broken Swords
1969 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.
Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts
1969 · 1h 18m
country: Japan
In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl's grandfather on sacred ground, the door is opened for the Yokai Monsters to step in.
The Two Bodyguards
1968 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
Film directed by Kenji Misumi
The Bride from Hades
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
Gamera vs. Viras
1968 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.
G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards
1967 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
The Woman Gambler
1967 · 1h 25m
country: Japan
Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin. In a fierce gambling den where rough men clash like sparks, two female gamblers vie for the same man in a high-stakes, best-of-seven showdown—from which only one will emerge victorious. Amid the tense atmosphere, Natsue, a highly skilled card dealer, gracefully reveals her hand with the flick of her slender fingers. At that precise moment, across the table, Takiko’s face goes ashen—she’s just lost the fateful game her lover had wagered his fortune on. The next day, Takiko and her boyfriend attempt a double suicide in despair, but she survives alone. Consumed by twisted emotions toward Natsue, a man named Isobe manipulates Takiko. Under his influence, Takiko seduces Tagami—who is Natsue’s fiancé—setting the stage for a dangerous and tangled web of love, revenge, and deceit.
War of the Monsters
1967 · 1h 29m
country: United States
An expedition goes out to a remote island to find a priceless opal. This opal happens to be the egg of the powerful Barugon, a huge lizard-like monster that can freeze foes with its long tongue or disintegrate them with its devastating rainbow ray. When Gammera begins to fight Barugon, several plans begin to stop both monsters and keep the damage of Japan at a minimum.
Gamera vs. Gyaos
1967 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While scientists and the military scramble to devise a way to stop this new threat, a young boy forms an alliance with Gamera; a monster no one else seems to trust.
Return of Giant Majin
1966 · 1h 19m
country: Japan
The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin rises from Lake Yakumo to settle a score of his own.
Gamera vs. Barugon
1966 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
ほんだら剣法
1965 · 1h 26m
country: Japan
Zero-Fighters
1965 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
雲を呼ぶ講道館
1965 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
The Gambling Samurai
1964 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
Ōkuma Shigenobu the great
1963 · 1h 43m
country: Japan
The biopic of Shigenobu Ōkuma, one of the main Japanese leaders at the turn of the 20th century, a supporter of rapprochement with the United Kingdom, and who brought his country into the Triple Entente against the German Empire.
Operation Underworld
Operation Underworld
1963 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
A detective investigates a criminal organization's involvement in real estate.
Sentimental Mobsters
1963 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
Zero Escape Visibility
1963 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Young Trees
1963
country: Japan
A bright and cheerful story about a young girl who comes to Tokyo from the countryside, relying on her aunt to become a maid, and willingly aspires to become a maid and lives a healthy life despite the hardships she encounters with people from all walks of life. Ririko Tachibana moved to Tokyo in reliance on her aunt Motoko, who lives in Tokyo. When Ririko leaves her classmate Chizuko Misawa, who says she is going to rely on jazz singer Michi Nozoe, and arrives at her aunt's house, she is disappointed to find that a job has been arranged for her as a nanny. Her dream of attending night high school was dashed, but Ririko made up her mind to do her best to do as much as she could. The Honbashi family, where she was employed, lived alone with the widow Shinae, and Mrs Shinae was asked to go to her daughters' house to help out...
Teinen Taishoku
1963 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Order of Yakuza
1962 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Order of Yakuza
Fūshinraishin
1962 · 1h 33m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
The Great Wall
1962 · 2h 16m
country: Japan
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.
Ashita au hito
1962 · 1h 28m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Otoko to onna no sei no naka
1962 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven
1962 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
The Whale God
1962 · 1h 40m
country: Japan
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo
1962 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
Princess and I
1962 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
情熱の詩人啄木
1962 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
1962 Japanese movie
Wakai yatsura no kaidan
1961 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
1961 Japanese movie
Buddha
1961 · 2h 37m
country: Japan
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.
Okoto and Sasuke
1961 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.
A Maiko's Holiday
1961 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
Mitsuko, a maiko from Gion, met Haruki by chance and had a fun time with him, but is stunned when he discovers her secret. This is a love story that cheerfully portrays the life of a modern maiko.
Satan's Sword III: The Final Chapter
1961 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fencing hall. The third film in the Satan's Sword trilogy.
Last-Ditch Glory
1961 · 1h 59m
country: Japan
Wakai nakama
1961 · 1h 21m
country: Japan
1961 Japanese movie
Bara to ryū
1961 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
1961 Japanese movie
The Ginza Three Boys
1961 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
Satan's Sword II: The Dragon God
1960 · 1h 30m
country: Japan
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.
Satan's Sword
1960 · 1h 46m
country: Japan
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Ryunosuke Tsukue, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.
風来物語 あばれ飛車
1960 · 1h 44m
country: Japan
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
Dare yori mo kimi o aisu
1960 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu" by Kazuko Matsuo.
A Nice Guy
1960 · 1h 20m
country: Japan
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
Jirocho Fuji 2: The Chivalrous
1960 · 1h 48m
country: Japan
The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting from Katsu Shintaro as One-Eyed Ishimatsu highlights this great tale taken from Japanese history!
Victory and Defeat
1960 · 1h 57m
country: Japan
After the boxing champion retires, the head of a powerful gym, Minegishi (So Yamamura), recommends Yamanaka (Hiroshi Kawaguchi), who is no longer in top form and is ranked number one, for a title fight, but his comrade Hata (Kojiro Hongo) is not happy with this choice, and so he moves to the gym run by the criminal businessman Goda (Toru Abe) and burning desire to beat Yamanaka.
The Demon of Mount Oe
1960 · 1h 54m
country: Japan
A band of warriors journeys to Mount Oe to rescue abducted women from a demon, overcoming supernatural threats like a giant spider and a diabolical witch along the way.
Ah Special Attack Corps
1960 · 1h 36m
country: Japan
Depicts four cheerful, young former college students with promising futures who die tragic deaths as pilots in the Kamikaze Special Attack Corps.
Princess Sen in Edo
1960 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!
The Two Musashis
1960 · 2h 2m
country: Japan
During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu clan's top instructors and then taking on Sasaki Kojiro!
The Princess Says No
1959 · 1h 39m
country: Japan
風来物語任侠篇
1959 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
The Aristocrat's Stairs
1959 · 1h 55m
country: Japan
A romantic tale depicting the beautiful and tragic love between a young man and woman from aristocratic families who are caught in the crossfire of the February 26 Incident.
Etajima, the Naval Academy
1959 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. Murase's mother had remarried after his father's death and the impressionable boy hated his overbearing father who held the whip-hand over his gentle mother. Out of defiance of his step-father he became wayward. But he was bright and his teacher persuaded him to enter the Academy as he knew that if he left home, his mother need not feel apologetic towards her husband on his account. Discipline was strict, their studies were hard and, in between, all the new cadets received an ample share of beatings, at the hands of the senior cadets, for the slightest mistakes. Murase thought all picked on him the most, especially Cadet First Class Kogure, who manhandled him at the slightest excuse.
The Lord and the Gambler
1959 · 1h 38m
country: Japan
Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother's castle, when the ruler of the Takatori Clan suddenly dies leaving no heir and despite the protest from Minister Horio, it is decided that young Chonosuke is to succeed as ruler of the clan. Horio determines to murder Chonosuke on his way to Edo so that his own grandchild may rule the Takatori Clan. "Odd" Han, a travelling gambler happens to stop at the inn where Chonosuke's party is staying in secret. The assassins come to attack Chonosuke on the riverbank where he is viewing the fireworks alone but are driven off by Han. Now Chonosuke travels with Han disguised as a gambler during which he begins to learn the hardships of the peasants and is struck with the contrast between the life of a feudal and those whose labour provides his luxurious living.
Jirocho Fuji
1959 · 1h 45m
country: Japan
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.