Kōjirō Kusanagi
Acting
Biography
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Born: September 19, 1929
Place of Birth: Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Yakuza Lawyer Haruhiko Ayanokoji
The fourth head of the Masashimizu group suddenly died. It was good until his adopted son Haruhiko Ayanokoji, a lawyer, succeeded him, but the gang consisted of only three odd people. Depicts the struggle of Haruhiko, who wears two pairs of straw sandals, a boss and a lawyer. A unique court yakuza story starring Masao Kusakari.
The Roads Men Travel
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a guard who survived a suicide mission during the war and his conflicts, rebellion, empathy and reconciliation with the younger generation born after the war.
The Hidden Trail of the Beasts
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.
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...
The Tragedy of "W"
A young theatre actress fights for her uncertain career while having to confront the personal sacrifices that will arise from it.
The Execution Game
The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to take on a difficult job. The target is a veteran killer as good as him.
The Killing Game
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes back he bumps into two women that he has spared five years ago. Two rival yakuza bosses hire Narumi to kill the other. Will Narumi's sense of chivalry entrap him again?
The Man Who Stole the Sun
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Madadayo
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast. Told in warm, gently comic vignettes, Kurosawa’s farewell celebrates aging, friendship, and the sustaining ritual of teacher and pupils refusing to say goodbye.
Woman from the Sea
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
Filmography
as Togo, Minister of Foreign Affairs
as Man Who Bought the Land
as Police
as Police Officer
as Hideki Tojo
as Yamamoto
as Kozo Numata (Episode 1)
as Genji Ou
as Detective
as Yamamoto
as Yokozawa, Keiji
as Yoshikazu Kiuchi
as Tatsunoichi
as Sei's uncle
as Senzo Yaegaki
as Taiichi Aono
as Inspector Yamamoto
as Tetsuya Kamedani
as Colonel Kusunoki
as Mr. Akiyoshi
as Takejiro Yamazawa
as Takita
as Nagatomo
as Wang
as Owner
as Seiji Eguchi(Distant relative of the head and Naito)
as Technician of Phone Company
as Takeshima
as Electrical shop owner
as Manji Hanai
as Shibata
as Hideyuki Kusanagi
as Itabashi
as Konishi Yukinaga
as Kamioka
as Genji
as Man with sunglasses
as Kurisu
as Hit man
as Tetsuji Yabuki
as Ken Serizawa
as Soldier
as Matsunaga
as Nakamura
as Shinji Kumaki
as Komatsu Hiroshi
as Shinji Kumaki
as Goro Ishii
as Takeda
as 三宅慎悟
as Seiji Uemura