Tatsuo Endō
Acting
Biography
Tatsuo Endō (遠藤太津朗, Endō Tatsuo, 30 January 1928–7 July 2012) was a Japanese actor. He is famous for playing the role of Manhichioyabun on the television jidaigeki series Zenigata Heiji.
Born: January 30, 1928
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Known For
Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
Bunta Sugawara replaces Koji Tsuruta as the leading man for this sequel of Okoma, the Orphan Gambler.
Rabble Tactics
The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are recruited in groups of fifteen. In Yaju's village, there are only twelve men, so they press Oto, who looks more like a boy than a girl, to join, disguised as a man.
Flower Cards Chivalry
A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is staying with a gangster boss when he comes across the woman and her partner again. The boss lusts for both her and his own daughter, while the boss's crazy yakuza brother loves his daughter, who, in turn, watches the player and wants to destroy the people standing in her way.
Prison Gambler
A film about the confrontation between two yakuza groups in the brutal Miike prison, which contained 1,500 inmates. The second film in the series Gambler / Bakuto directed by Shigehiro Ozawa.
Gambler
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
Lord Mito
One of Japan’s most popular historical characters, former Vice-Shogun Tokugawa Mitsukuni, whose travels around the nation are legendary has made it to the silver screen in a dynamic and exciting tale featuring megastar Toshiro Mifune as an expert swordsman drawn into the action to fight injustice. The Elder Lord travels about disguised as a retired merchant with his two trusty bodyguards Sukesaburo and Kakunoshin by his side and secret agent Yashichi close by. After a chance meeting with a dying man and young woman who had been brutally attacked, they set out for Kaga Province to wreak vengeance on the responsible parties. Don’t miss this exciting journey into Japanese history!
Yakuza of Seki
A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo, whose father entrusts her to him with his dying wish. To honor his promise to Osayo's deceased father, Yatappe brings her to safety, and from a distance keeps a watchful eye on her well being.
Sworn Brothers
Ichikawa Raizo’s last film. He plays a Yakuza enforcer who kills a man on his boss's orders. He’s then sent to a provincial town to lie low, only to be caught in another war orchestrated by his original boss who has set him up.
Onihei Hankachō
Hasegawa is a chief police of big heart who leads a band of samurai police and cultivates reformed criminals as informants to solve difficult crimes.
Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group
A nasty schoolgirl does what she pleases, under the protection of her father, who is the school principal. Another girl is not so nasty, but she is determined and tough enough to contest the girl's gang in a democratic vote - and win. That causes her trouble in school, just when her own father, who owns a truck transport company, is murdered in a fake car accident by an American mobster. Before the girl can react, her naive mother has signed over the company to the mobster, and accepted him as her lover. Repentant, the mother starts drinking, and the good schoolgirl ties up with a halfbreed young man, who also has a grudge against Americans. He starts spying on the gangsters, discovers they are dealing in drugs, but is killed before he can report it. The good girl will lead her team in a desperation assault on the mobsters - and the police will eventually arrive just in time for the showdown.
Filmography
as Doctor
as Hayanose
as Yunosuke
as Hikiroku
as Kitou
as Rokusuke Hayakawa (Police Officer)
as Yang
as Rokusuke Hayakawa (Police Officer)
as Hatao Kurobe
as Ryukichi Yoshino
as Fujikawa
as Takeo Ohara
as Rikizo Watanabe
as Bayan
as Shigeo Aihara
as Hiroshi Nikaidô
as Gôda
as Kanichi Tokimori
as Boss Iwagoro
as Inamura
as Shirobei Daimon
as Yagyu Retsudo
as Hirutoku
as 大野木の百助
as Genjuro Onodera
as Ishikiri
as Ken'ichirô Matsumura
as Mantaro Kuroda
as Detective Inukai
as Eiichiro Tojo
as Money
as Tokachi
as Shuryu
as Banyasu
as Kuronuma
as Kazama
as Gozo
as Gisuke Kuramochi
as Yonekura
as Daisaku Nishikawa
as Ishida
as Mushikago Ujin
as Masugorô Iwabuchi
as Manshichi Minowa
as Boss Tomizo
as Kanda Tsurumatsu
as Horikyu
as Shorin O
as Iwagoro
as Tetsugogô
as Genshin Kusakabe
as Nishikawa
as Gunjuro
as Kikuzo Segawa
as Negami, the owner of the brothel "Ryugu"
as Yakuza boss of Ejimaya
as Takikawa
as Goro Tanaka
as Boss Yasugoro of Takeya
as Choi
as High School Teacher
as Gosaku
as Magoroku
as Inn keeper
as Banpei's Brother
as Tezuka