Asao Koike
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Asao Koike.
Born: March 18, 1931
Place of Birth: Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Postwar Secrets
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
I Want to Be a Shellfish
On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police as a war criminal and sued for murder.
Professional Killers – Assassin's Quarry
An assassin is mistaken for a doctor and threatened by a band of masterless warriors, but they realize their mistake and retreat into the darkness. Days later, he is asked to kill the doctor's brother. What secrets are these men hiding?
Happiness of Us Alone
The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Japanese Godfather: Ambition
An ambitious Kansai yakuza don moves in on Tokyo using financial and political tactics, sparking conflict with a local criminal association.
Eighteen Years in Prison
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 cross again as they both fall in love with the same woman.
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
The Armed Organization
Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union. He finds himself between a rock and a hard place, at odds with both the dockworkers' leader (Tomisaburo Wakayama) and sadistic, unprincipled bosses (Fumio Watanabe and Tetsuro Tamba).
Professional Killers
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...
Kogarashi Monjiro
Monjiro was born into a poor farm family in Mikazuki Village, Nitta County, Ueshu, and abandoned his hometown when he was 10 years old. He has been traveling aimlessly with a long toothpick in his mouth. Monjiro avoided getting involved in anything, but wherever he went, he ended up getting involved in incidents
Filmography
as Yuhara
as Inejirō Asanuma
as Rothbart (voice)
as Toyotomi Hideyoshi
as Iwataro Okabe
as Koizumi Yukinaga
as Kaneko
as Hidenobu Fujioka
as Kazuaki Yashiro
as Fujii
as Akimasa Onizawa
as Yoshimatsu Sasamoto
as Michizou Senbou
as Tetsugorō Iwata
as Katsunosuke Miura
as Yuji Tadokoro
as Kinugasa
as Tokumatsu
as Sagawa
as Yoshii Haruo
as Ishiyama
as Tomoji Okajima
as Sekiguchi
as Sohku Yamazaki
as Kunimatsu Takanashi
as Kikukawa
as Narrator
as Tokugawa Yoshinao
as Boss Mangoro
as Samonji
as Kizaki
as Yakuza Boss
as Sataro
as Kiyoshi Ôba
as Suzaki
as Tatsuya Kayama
as Silver (voice)
as Ozaki
as Kinpachi
as Yabuki
as Kurogane Fujikichi:
as Sanji
as Lord Ozeki
as Hirukawa
as Hatsutaro Ochiai
as Yoshio Kodaira (segment "Kodaira jiken")
as Kamarkim (voice)
as Horitatsu
as Lucifer (voice)
as Terauchi
as Tetsunosuke Kanehara
as Tsuji
as Makino Bingo-no-kami
as Matasaburo Tachibanaya
as Boss Gonzo
as Tatsunosuke
as First Lieutenant Ôoka
as Kimura
as Tsukada
as Panja
as Kawamoto
as Matoba
as Narrator (voice)
as Sawakichi
as Tatsu
as Minegishi Ryunosuke
as Hanai
as Toshio Kosaka
as Osaki
as Tomonari
as Black Glasses
as Hayakawa
as Tsuzuki soldier