Takuzo Kawatani at Criticker

Takuzo Kawatani
	Country: Japan Total Films at Criticker: 18 - You've Seen 0
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Kagerô (1991)

Summary: Rin is a traveling gambler who goes by the name of "Luminesent Rin". She is apparently a well known and respected but not considered to be among the elite gamblers. Heading to a job for "Boss Masa", she unexpectedly runs into her younger brother in the train station on the run from thugs. She rescues him and pays off his gambling debts. Finding out that her brother has lost the family restaurant due to gambling debts, she decides to return to her home town to do something about it... (imdb)

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Zatôichi (1989)

Summary: The final and most savage installment of the series.

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Jittemai (1986)

Summary: A strange world of the criminal underground during Samurai times where a trio of mute assassins hack their way across ancient Edo looking for evil in a dreamlike world of corruption, where priests rob the dead and daughters get a hand at the family business of killing. (hkdvdstore.com)

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The Burmese Harp (1985)

Summary: Ichikawa remake of his 1956 classic.

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Empire of Passion (1978)

Summary: A young man has an affair with an older woman. He is very jealous of her husband and decides that they should kill him. One night, after the husband had plenty of sake to drink and was in bed, they strangle him and dump his body down a well... (imdb)

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Dokufu oden kubikiri asa (1977)

Summary: Crimes and misadventures of a girl named Oden. Loosely based on actual story of Takahashi Oden.

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Hiroshima jingi: Hitojichi dakkai sakusen (1976)

Summary: After a devastating event, a yakuza family converts itself (on the surface only) into a "legitimate" business company dealing with real estate and construction. However, old habits die hard.

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Tokugawa onna keibatsu-emaki: Ushi-zaki no kei (1976)

Summary: Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. 1. During a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as her personal slave to torment him, and tries breaking her spirit by means of rape, torture and pure sadism. 2. When Sutezo is forced to serve the cruel master of a brothel to repay his debts, he becomes friends with the young girl Sato. (imdb)

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Yakuza Graveyard (1976)

Summary: A cop intervenes in warfare between Yakuza gangs. (bfi.org.uk)

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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Boss's Last Days (1976)

Summary: The eighth sequel of the series by the successful 밊ukasaku and Bunta?collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and leed in vain?in gang wars. A minor dispute between the Sakamoto family based in Osaka (the largest organization in Japan) and the Kawahara family of Amagasaki (subsidiary of the Genryu Group of Kyushu) turns into a conflict that leads to several deaths in both families. (AT)

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Crazed Beast (1976)

Summary: Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.

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Gyokuwarijin Yuki (1975)

Summary: Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this pair of short features follow the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker." She's the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it's her job to break them in for future clients.

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Kôshoku: Genroku monogatari (1975)

Summary: Natsu, the older of two sisters, has a relationship with Yonosuke, the local kimono trader. Unlike her more conservative sister Oshichi she tries to use sex as a means to climb to a better social position. To even attempt that she first needs to get out of the Buddhist monastery she is working at...

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Jeans Blues: No Future (1974)

Summary: Fate brings together two young misfits who embark on a robbing spree, in a Japanese Bonnie and Clyde style. (imdb)

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The Street Fighter (1974)

Summary: Terry is a tough, mercenary, master of martial arts. When an important business magnate dies, leaving billions to his daughter... (imdb)

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Poruno no joô: Nippon sex ryokô (1973)

Summary: Christina, on arriving in Japan, acquaints a Japanese man at the airport who looks like a sap. He takes her to his apartment where he brutally rapes her and keeps her hostage and bound in chains. Christina's alluring beauty eventually enchants the rapist and he is soon consulting his 'How to Stimulate a Woman' sex book in an effort to please her... Of course, our girl exploits this weakness and manages to escape.

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The Yakuza Papers 3: Proxy War (1973)

Summary: Kinji Fukasaku's violent chronicle of mob warfare in post-war Hiroshima continues with this, the third film in the Yakuza Papers series. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) struggles to remain independent and neutral in the midst of an ongoing battle between two mob families, but his drams of brokering a balance between them are dashed when a crime syndicate from Kobe enters the picture. (All Movie Guide)

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The Yakuza Papers 1: Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)

Summary: Kinji Fukasaku directed this powerful and uncompromising look at the deadly stakes of life among the Yakuza -- the Japanese Mafia. Shozo Hirono (Bunta Sugawara) is a former Japanese soldier who, following his nation's defeat in World War II, finds himself in a prison cell in Hiroshima on a murder charge. While behind bars, Hirono gains a loyal friend in fellow criminal Wagasugi (Tatsuo Umemiya), and upon his release Hirono joins Wagasugi in an underworld gang. What starts as a seemingly easy way to earn some quick money becomes something darker and bloodier... (All Movie Guide)

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