Rokkō Toura
Acting
Biography
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Born: April 30, 1930
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Known For
The Strange Tale of Oyuki
A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous and smartly dressed, Nagai patiently wrote in his diary his thoughts during many years. A melancholy reflection on the passage of time and a brilliant interpretive exercise.
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
Tree Without Leaves
Haru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on his first novel. As the last surviving member of his kin, he intends to chronicle the family he grew up in.
League of Gangsters
A yakuza is released from prison after serving a long sentence. He immediately sets about creating a new gang and attempts to pull off a huge ransom score.
Brand of Evil
A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where he is asked to investigate Mitsue Takazawa, the wife of a local trading firm president. While secretly conducting his own research, he finds out that Takazawa's husband is the one, responsible for Kikuchi's imprisonment, who also have set sights on Setsuko, a woman Kikuchi becomes romantically involved with.
Akō Rōshi
"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the retainers hear about their Lord's death, they sacrifice their lives to regain the honor of their former master.
Death by Hanging
A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.
Kuroneko
In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai returning from the war through that area are found mysteriously dead with their throats torn out. The governor calls in a wild and fierce young hero to quell what is evidently an Onryō ghost. He encounters the two beautiful women in an eerie, beautiful scene. After spiritual purification, he meets the demon in a thrilling fight.
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison camp, run by the strict Captain Yonoi. Colonel John Lawrence, who has a profound knowledge of Japanese culture, and Sergeant Hara, brutal and simpleton, will witness the struggle of wills between two men from very different backgrounds who are tragically destined to clash.
Filmography
as Follower
as Katagiri
as Nyû Funaya
as Interpreter
as Tsunemi Kuno
as Iijima
as MP Captain Abe
as Okino
as Kozo Sudo
as Miyauchi
as Teacher
as 加屋徳次郎
as Detective Nishimura
as Yami no Hichibei
as Saito
as Tani / Police
as Office General Manager
as Gen Karasaki
as Ayabe Ukon
as Shishido Baiken
as Ministry of Justice Officer
as Clerk
as Hajime Ito
as Rintoku Teruya
as Policeman
as Narrator
as Mitsuo Shimaoka
as Senta
as Interpreter
as Sakurada Mamoru
as Yabuchi Gyobu
as Denjuro
as Isao Fujiwara
as Narrator (voice)
as Himself
as Choji
as Chief
as Fukaya Shinzaemon
as Wufeng
as Samurai
as Doctor
as Eiji, brother
as Television Man
as Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Shunichi Matsumato
as Kagemaru
as Genji Hyuga
as Nakata
as Crippled yakuza
as Kaino
as Sakurai
as Mitsuaki Inamura
as Zhou Yu-Xian
as Shibata Kinichi
as Takebayashi Takashige
as Ogata
as Higashiura Toura
as Masa