Tamio Kawachi

Tamio Kawachi

July 21, 1938 · 88 years old

Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).

Known For

14 titles
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Gozu

Gozu

2003 · 2h 9m · Movie

A yakuza enforcer is ordered to secretly drive his beloved colleague to be assassinated. But when the colleague unceremoniously disappears en route, the trip that follows is a twisted, surreal and horrifying experience.

6.9
2
Tokyo Drifter

Tokyo Drifter

1966 · 1h 22m · Movie

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

7.1
3
Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1973 · 1h 39m · Movie

During the violent chaos of post-War Japanese black market, a young gangster called Shozo Hirono has to keep up with the rapid shifts of power between unscrupulous bosses.

7.4
4
Gappa the Triphibian Monster

Gappa the Triphibian Monster

1967 · 1h 30m · Movie

Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.

4.4
5
Story of a Prostitute

Story of a Prostitute

1965 · 1h 36m · Movie

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

7.3
6
Cruel Gun Story

Cruel Gun Story

1964 · 1h 27m · Movie

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

7.1
7
The Warped Ones

The Warped Ones

1960 · 1h 15m · Movie

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

6.9
8
Everything Goes Wrong

Everything Goes Wrong

1960 · 1h 11m · Movie

The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

6.8
9
Black Sun

Black Sun

1964 · 1h 35m · Movie

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

6.7
10
Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey

Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey

2000 · 1h 25m · Movie

Two years after the events of 'Ultraman Tiga', Daigo is forced to pick up another Dark Spark Lens in an attempt to stop three evils the once, dark Tiga worked with 30 million years ago, to stop destruction in Japan once and for all.

6.8
11
Akai hankachi

Akai hankachi

1964 · 1h 39m · Movie

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches ...

6.8
12
Hissatsu shikakenin

Hissatsu shikakenin

1973 · 1h 27m · Movie

An Edo-era assassin reconnects with his past while his friend desires change.

7.3
13
Hi no ataru sakamichi

Hi no ataru sakamichi

1958 · 3h 34m · Movie

A college aged woman arrives in Tokyo to study while finding work at the wealthy Tashiro family home as a tutor of the daughter, while the two brothers vie for her attention.

7.2
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The Symbol of a Man: The Rule for a Vagabond

The Symbol of a Man: The Rule for a Vagabond

1965 · 1h 28m · Movie

In early 20th Century Japan, a yakuza boss goes on a 3-year journey. When he sees some trouble, he heads right for it.

6.2