Tōru Abe
Acting
Biography
Toru Abe (安部 徹, Abe Tōru, 28 March 1917 – 18 July 1993) was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1944 to 1985.
Born: March 28, 1917
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Japan
Known For
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.
Special Crime Investigation Front
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!
Tarao Bannai
Legendary detective returns.
The Killer
A former gang leader and lone wolf who has left the organization works behind the scenes in a new city to take revenge on a giant alliance of organizations. This film is amongst the last "straight" yakuza films made at Nikkatsu before the studio's switch-over to pinku eiga.
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.
Young Lord Yakuza
Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.
Admiral Yamamoto
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.
Tokyo Story
The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their aged parents, and so it falls to Noriko, the widow of their younger son who was killed in the war, to keep her in-laws company.
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts, and moves to Manchuria with his newly-wed wife Michiko, but when he tries to put his ideas of more humane treatment into practice, he finds himself at odds with scheming officials, cruel foremen, and the military police.
Filmography
as Sakae Oya
as Hiromatsu
as Leader of the Village Assembly
as Otto Frank (voice)
as Mondo Murai
as Kentaro Yokokawa
as Koizumi
as Besho
as Goda
as Hada
as Yakuza Boss
as Kendo Terauchi
as Oshima Humio
as Tsuyoshi Kishimoto
as Asakichi
as Yakuza Boss
as Chief Senda
as Hideo Tokuzawa
as Furuya
as Boss Toubei
as Chuichi Nagumo
as Dobashi
as Samezu no Masagoro
as Ronin
as Rear Adm. Takijiro Onishi (uncredited)
as Bunzo
as Iwasa
as Yoshiichiro Omori
as Oike
as Chief of Staff Soka
as Yasaburo Oba
as Tsuyoshi Shimaoka
as Ukichi Tsurumura
as Detective Kuroshima
as Kichinosuke Koizumi
as Hidanokami Arakawa
as Kizaki
as Bunsho Tei
as Kito
as Tsukuru Tachibana
as Kanzaki
as Yasui
as Tatsuzo Karasawa
as Heizo Yoda
as Yuasa Teizo
as Te
as Boss Yoshida
as Sukegoro Iioka
as Toribu
as Boss Yagiri Tokyuro
as Ryuzo Goda
as Yamada
as Kurobe
as Deputy Chief Kawanishi
as Detective A
as Hoshino
as Ryu
as Hanji Takebayashi
as Kenzo Goda
as Akahori
as Yoshimura
as Watarai Gunsô
as Mihara
as Iida
as Matsu
as Shinzo Takaoka
as Murayama
as Inspector Hanada
as Yamagami
as Gô Momoyama
as Fortune Teller Raiunken
as Fortune Teller Raiunken
as Second baseman Aoike
as Police Department Manager
as Takaji Muranaka
as Railway Staff
as Kakubei Oiwa
as 通訳
as Sergeant Aoki
as Older brother Taro Ichi
as Tajima
as Ichiro
as X