The best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s action movies

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

20/11/1917- 28/01/1970
Today we present the best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s movies.

Cruel Gun Story

Cruel Gun Story
7.2/10
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rei, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rei. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?

The Rambler Goes North

The Rambler Goes North
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 03/01/1962
In the nine part Wataridori series (1959-1962), Kobayashi played a wanderer on Japan’s back roads with most of the accoutrements of a Western hero, from a horse to fringes, guitar and even a trusty bullwhip.

Black Tight Killers

Black Tight Killers
6.8/10
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women

Detective Bureau 2-3: A Man Weak to Money and Women
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 07/07/1963
  • Character: Nishiwatari
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

The Man with a Sinister Laugh

The Man with a Sinister Laugh
6.8/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 06/08/1960
  • Character: Funaba
After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his missing sister.

Tiger of the Sea

Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk
6.6/10
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.

The Young and Bad

The Young and Bad
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.

The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja

The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja
The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.

Red Pier

Red Pier
6.9/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 23/09/1958
  • Character: Matsuda
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.

Farewell to Southern Tosa

Farewell to Southern Tosa
6.3/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 02/08/1959
Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger
6.9/10
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.

The Guitarist from the Sea

The Guitarist from the Sea
Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.

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