List of the best Tamio Kawaji movies: Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell Bastards(1963), Tokyo Drifter(1966), Battles Without Honor and Humanity(1973) ... ...
Crime, Drama, Action
Japan
1963
89 Minutes
Manabe
Jo Shishido Tamio Kawaji Yûko Kusunoki Kotoe Hatsui Nobuo Kaneko Reiko Sasamori Naomi Hoshi
Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.
Action, Crime, Drama
Japan
1966
83 Minutes
Tatsuzo
Tetsuya Watari Chieko Matsubara Ryuji Kita Hideaki Nitani Tamio Kawaji Tsuyoshi Yoshida Eimei Esumi Eiji Gô Isao Tamagawa Michio Hino Tomoko Hamakawa
crime boss rival thug assassin young woman thrilling suspenseful eerie tokyo inner city countryside gang war betrayal murder plot crime pursuit rivalry revenge 1960s
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.
Crime, Drama
Japan
1973
99 Minutes
Kanbara Seiichi
Bunta Sugawara Hiroki Matsukata Tatsuo Umemiya Tsunehiko Watase Nobuo Kaneko Gorô Ibuki Tamio Kawaji Eiko Nakamura Hiroshi Nawa
prisoner gangster mob boss best friend gritty brutal hiroshima, japan market bar organized crime postwar japan double-cross yakuza sacrifice revenge wretched excess 1950s
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.