Takeshi Yoshida
Known for Acting
Filmography
16 films
Known for Acting
Filmography
16 films

Outlaw: Goro the Assassin
1968 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
On a cold winter day, Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) and Masahiko murder the mob boss of Meishin-Kai. The deed costs them time in prison, but Goro had no shred of regret. When Goro is released 2 years later, Masahiko is dying in prison hospital and entrusts his last wish; "find my sister and take care of her." Goro leaves as a free man with a mission, but soon finds that he might have been better off in jail.

Outlaw: Heartless
1968 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2
1968 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.

Outlaw: Gangster VIP
1968 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Goro had grown up in the yakuza world. As an active member of the Mizuhara family crime syndicate, he expressed his loyalty by always putting himself in the forefront of every battle. Violence never bothered him. However, after being sentenced to three years in prison for stabbing a rival gang’s hit man, he becomes disenchanted with the Yakuza life style. Goro is determined to start anew, but karma catches up. His two closest friends are murdered by his ex-boss. He is left with two options: to kill or be killed.

A Colt Is My Passport
1967 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Shin yūkyōden
1966 · 1h 24m
country: Japan
In this town, Kagosuke and Ryukichi of the Okamoto family, who are deeply committed to the yakuza way, are straightforward and justice-loving hot-blooded men. However, their slight clumsiness is a flaw, but they are extremely strong in fights, and there's no one who can match them. They are head over heels for Osen-san. They are both desperately unwilling to yield even if the other is a brother.

Kill or Be Killed
1966 · 1h 27m
country: Japan
When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Love Eternal
1966 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.

Love and Desire in the Night Mist
1966 · 1h 32m
country: Japan
A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

Tokyo Drifter
1966 · 1h 23m
country: Japan
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a position to Kurata's top operative, Tetsuya "Phoenix Tetsu" Hondo. When the fiercely loyal Tetsu declines, Otsuka taps unstoppable Tatsuzo the "Viper", a ruthless gun-for-hire, to assassinate him. As the Viper trails his target through the countryside, the agile Phoenix Tetsu grows concerned that one of his former associates has betrayed him.

Youth A Go Go!
1966 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

The Four Loves
1965 · 1h 29m
country: Japan
A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each of the daughters has a romantic interest and it's noticeable that the father, too, has someone in mind.

Seishun zenki: Aoi kajitsu
1965 · 1h 31m
country: Japan
1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Ningen ni kakeruna
1964 · 1h 24m
country: Japan

Homecoming
1964 · 1h 37m
country: Japan
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, during the revolution in Cuba, but is now living in Japan. Tomoko's mother has remarried a strict, narrow-minded university professor, whose only worry is protecting his family name from the slightest blemish.

Only on Mondays
1964 · 1h 34m
country: Japan
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.