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Tatsuo Umemiya

Tatsuo Umemiya (梅宮 辰夫, Umemiya Tatsuo, 11 March 1938 – 12 December 2019) was a Japanese actor, talent, and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and talent Anna Umemiya. The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television dramas and also in restaurant variety shows. Umemiya died of kidney failure on 12 December 2019. He was 81 years old. Born : 11th-Mar-1938

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Wandering Ginza Butterfly

Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a shamed woman confined to living in the shadowy world of sex clubs and street gangs. She returns to the city to live with her uncle, a billiard-hall owner, and after befriending pimp and ne’er-do-well Ryuji (Tsunehiko Watase), she gets a job working at a hostess club in the chic Ginza neighborhood, where the expensive shops and neon lights conceal a dark world of crime and sexual slavery. But when a rival gang attempts to muscle in on the club, Nami becomes enmeshed in a violent struggle that forces her to wield a skilled pool cue to defend her uncle’s business, and eventually a short sword to wreak bloody vengeance upon her enemies.
Released : 1st-Apr-1972

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Mr. Tadano's Secret Mission: From Japan With Love

Tadano is assigned by the chairman Kurokawa to protect and check the personal affairs of a young idol, Sylvia , who is the main character at the "Flower Earth Festival 2008" organized by Denodo. Sylvia has been threatened by someone to resign from the main character role. Tadano starts investigating while supporting Yamanishi, the event organizer. However, Tadano is struck down by a mysterious giant of a man. Yamanishi, who has obtained important information, is murdered, and Sylvia is kidnapped. Tadano realizes that Anzai, Yamanishi's right-hand man who has been eyeing the chairmanship, is the mastermind behind this. Tadano rescues Sylvia and brings her to the event venue.
Released : 6th-Dec-2008

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Prince of Space

Attracted by the report of the development of a new type of rocket fuel, the vicious dictator of Krangkor, the dark planet, descends on Earth to steal the formula from its creator, the benevolent Dr. Makin.
Released : 19th-May-1959

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Metamorphosis

A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.
Released : 10th-Oct-1986

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Hunter in the Dark

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his boss's enemies almost overwhelming.
Released : 17th-Jun-1979

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Yakuza Graveyard

A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are in negotiations with certain factions, he sides with his own syndicate of choice.
Released : 30th-Oct-1976

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Graveyard of Honor

A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the Japanese mafia but quickly loses his self control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
Released : 15th-Feb-1975

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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case

A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
Released : 27th-Sep-1991

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Okatsu the Fugitive

Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to marry and actually she doesn't seem too upset about the situation. At the same time, a bunch of farmers are being slaughtered by a corrupt group running a tobacco smuggling ring. They're being investigated by a man who is documenting their crimes and when they find out about it, they torture him for information but get none. It's not long before he and Okatsu's mother wind up dead and she sets out for revenge.
Released : 1st-Oct-1969

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Bloodstained Clan Of Honor

It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.
Released : 31st-Jan-1970

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Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City

Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…
Released : 18th-Jan-1969

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World War III Breaks Out

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'.
Released : 19th-Oct-1960

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Devil's Flute

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the backdrop of wealth, this film is loaded with twists and turns and surprises at every corner.
Released : 20th-Jan-1979

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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.
Released : 9th-Sep-1970

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The Experience

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
Released : 6th-Oct-1970

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Wolves on Motorcycles

Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground.
Released : 31st-Jul-1971

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Wolves of the City: First to Fight

Pinku from 1971.
Released : 29th-Dec-1971

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Oh Wonderful Utamaro!


Released : 1st-Jun-1974

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Cops vs. Thugs

When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
Released : 26th-Apr-1975

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Gang vs. Gang

The plot opens with the hero (Tsuruta) leaving prison, having served time through taking the blame for a fellow gang member’s crime. However, his former gang boss seems to have gone to seed, with people now killing each other and dealing in drugs. The hero then teams up with a lone operator (Tamba) who specialises in shaking down gangsters.
Released : 13th-Jul-1962

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The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy

A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
Released : 6th-Dec-1961

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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. His struggles with his boss, the Shikoku Godfather, and the tumultuous life of his adopted daughter, Matsue, form the backdrop of this epic tale of justice, obedience, and bloody vengeance.
Released : 5th-Jun-1982

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The Bad Boss 3

A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
Released : 6th-May-1969

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Delinquent Boss: Devour to the Bone

This is the Sixteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Released : 14th-Oct-1972

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The Gate of Youth Part 2


Released : 11th-Feb-1977

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Capone Cries a Lot

Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.
Released : 16th-Feb-1985

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Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil

The sixth and last Moonlight Mask film in the original series produced by Toei in the 1950s.
Released : 4th-Aug-1959

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Human Torpedoes

Story of loyal sailors giving their lives for their country as human torpedoes towards the end of the War.
Released : 3rd-Jan-1968

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The Last Kamikaze

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji Tsuruta stars as a Kamikaze squad leader who has second thoughts about suicide runs. He becomes torn between his own morality and his duty to his country when he must deal with a pilot under his command who refuses to complete his mission.
Released : 29th-Oct-1970

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The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
Released : 1st-Jun-1968

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Raised in a Palace

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a geisha at night She sees her future as an entertainer, not a prostitute, & she expects a happy marriage with a medical student, Yasuke (Katsuo Nakamura), a sweet fellow she deeply loves. but things started to getting worse for Tamiko and she's forced to become the mistress of the disgusting Tsukada (Seiji Miyaguchi).
Released : 23rd-Sep-1964

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The Challenge

Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
Released : 28th-Mar-1962

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Four Hours of Terror

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
Released : 30th-Sep-1959

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The Boy Detectives Club – The Enemy Is an Atomic Submarine

Ninth and final film in the Boy Detectives Club series. Features Tatsuo Umemiya's film debut.
Released : 25th-Mar-1959

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Industrial Spy

A spy learns the top secrets of a company.
Released : 21st-May-1968

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Break Town Story

Japanese drama film.
Released : 24th-Aug-1985

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Domineering

When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
Released : 29th-Oct-1982

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Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"

Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Released : 15th-Oct-1969

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Delinquent Boss: Alley Dog Commando

This is the Fifteenth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Released : 16th-May-1972

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G-Men in the Pacific

G-men challenge a jewelry smuggling ring. The chase starts in Kyushu and continues to Kobe to Yokohama.
Released : 22nd-Apr-1962

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

The 224-minute compilation edition of Battles Without Honor and Humanity compiles these four movies: Battles Without Honor and Humanity, Deadly Fight in Hiroshima, Proxy War, Police Tactics.
Released : 5th-Apr-1980

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Love on a Daily Basis

The lives of a young yakuza and his girlfriend.
Released : 17th-Dec-1988

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Nagasaki Blues

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.
Released : 19th-Apr-1969

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Downtown Blues

The desires and pretensions of woman of the Ginza are depicted.
Released : 1st-Aug-1968

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A Woman’s Road

Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.
Released : 14th-Apr-1973

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The Bad Guy Blues

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
Released : 27th-Aug-1969

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
Released : 15th-Jan-1974

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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
Released : 25th-Sep-1973

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Dream Maker

Masato is a bad boy, but very in love with music. He meets a girl, Miki, who has serious diseases but is optimistic toward life. They start to work together in a CD shop and catch every chance to show their talents. Under the efforts of Masato, his company at last becomes an entertainment giant in Japan.
Released : 23rd-Oct-1999

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The Dump Truck Rascal

Depicting the turbulent life of truck driver Takashi, his fellow drivers, and the women he meets.
Released : 29th-Apr-1981

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Wolves of the City, Money Hunters

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
Released : 18th-Apr-1970

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TV Credits

Iron Chef

- Iron Chef is a Japanese television cooking show produced by Fuji Television. The series, which premiered on October 10, 1993, is a stylized cook-off featuring guest chefs challenging one of the show's resident "Iron Chefs" in a timed cooking battle built around a specific theme ingredient. The series ended on September 24, 1999, although occasional specials were produced until 2002. The series aired 309 episodes. Repeats are regularly aired on the Cooking Channel in the United States and on Special Broadcasting Service in Australia. Fuji TV will air a new version of the show, titled Iron Chef, beginning in October 26, 2012.
Released : 10th-Oct-1993

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金のたまご

- In this engaging comedy, a husband and wife enter a journey of self-discovery when they enter their child into a drama school. Just where does a parent's dream for their child's success end and the child's own future aspirations begin?
Released : 3rd-Jul-1997

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Hagure Keiji '97

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Released : 2nd-Apr-1997

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Hagure Keiji '99

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Released : 31st-Mar-1999

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揺れる想い

- The wife of a lawyer and her twice-divorced sister-in-law scheme to break up her brother's marriage in this hard-edged drama of misdirected passion. The quirky characters who fill out the cast include a youthful entrepreneur and the heroine's father, a police officer who would do anything to make his daughter happy.
Released : 13th-Jan-1995

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風少女

Matsumoto -
Released : 13th-Apr-1988

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拝啓、父上様

Komiya Ryuuji - Set in an old prestigious ryotei (Japanese-style restaurant) in a small town in the center of Tokyo, a young itamae (cook for Japanese dishes) struggles his life, love and work while the long-lasted ryotei and the beloved old town face the change to survive the time. This heartwarming drama shows the intimate relationship of the community that has been lost nowadays, asks what the most important things in your life is, and tells how difficult it is to make a decision. The story is told in the form of a letter from him to his unknown father with lots of humor and love.
Released : 11th-Jan-2007

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カミング・ホーム

Shirota Shintaro - Shirota Shintaro lives with his wife Atsuko, his four children, Shitaro's father Fukuzo, and a dog. He is forced to make room for his sister Megumi and her children, as well as an unexpected lodger from Hungary.
Released : 8th-Jul-1994

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とんぼ

Takejiri Kenzo - Eiji Ogawa, a young leader of the Hattagumi yakuza, left the prison after two years sentence. However, it was only Tsunekichi Mito, the younger brother, who came to meet him.
Released : 7th-Oct-1988

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SMAP×SMAP

Skit Guest - SMAP×SMAP was an ongoing weekly Japanese variety show on Kansai TV and Fuji TV starring the members of SMAP. The show began on April 15, 1996 and it aired from 22:00 to 22:54 every Monday. The show's usual ratings were higher than 20%, which is considered high since most variety shows range from 10-20%. Each episode begins a variety of skits, comedic performances, and/or games.  These are followed by Bistro SMAP, in which the SMAP members compete against each other to impress celebrity judges with their gourmet cooking.  Last is a musical performance by SMAP which may include celebrity guests, as well.
Released : 15th-Apr-1996

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男たちの旅路

Jun'ichi - Employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds confront many difficult questions
Released : 28th-Feb-1976

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特命係長 只野仁

总裁 - Hitoshi Tadano is an assistant manager of an advertisement company who seems to be nothing but a dull and incapable “nobody”. While most of the employees wonder why such a passive and incompetent person like Hitoshi is yet to be laid off, there is just one person who heavily relies on him as a “savior” to the company, the CEO. In fact, the “Mr. Nobody” is simply a disguise from the real Hitoshi, as he is under various special missions of the CEO to quietly carry on his “extraordinary” task to fight against the corruption of the company.
Released : 4th-Jul-2003

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絶対に笑ってはいけない

Guest - After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).
Released : 27th-Jul-2003

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スクール☆ウォーズ

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Released : 6th-Oct-1984

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刑事純情派

Yokomizo Shigetada - Detective Kichinosuke Yasuura, also known as "Yasu-san", A detective with a sense of humanity and justice that deviates from the framework of the police organization is popular.
Released : 6th-Apr-1988

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佐武と市捕物控

- Fuji drama specials based on the eponymous manga by Shotaro Ishinomori.
Released : 31st-Jul-1981

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