The best Tatsuo Umemiya’s movies

Tatsuo Umemiya

Tatsuo Umemiya

11/03/1938- 12/12/2019
We present our ranking of the best Tatsuo Umemiya’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Tatsuo Umemiya.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
7.4/10
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...

Graveyard of Honor

Graveyard of Honor
7.1/10
A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
7.3/10
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.

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Four Days of Snow and Blood
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 17/06/1989
  • Character: Owner of Hotel Sanno
Based on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading politicians were killed and the center of Tokyo was briefly held by the insurgents before the coup was suppressed.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
6.5/10
The 224-minute compilation edition Battles Without Honor and Humanity The Complete Saga compiles these five movies : Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1973) Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima (1973) Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Proxy War (1973) Battles Without Honor and Humanity 4: Police Tactics (1974) Battles Without Honor and Humanity 5: Final Episode (1974)

Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis
5.9/10
A sensuous movie based on a literary work. Hitomi Kuroki stars as the film’s heroine.

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
7.3/10
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.

The Revenge and the Death

The Revenge and the Death
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 07/08/1963
  • Character: Hideo Matsunaga
A gritty, noirish gangster saga.

Yakuza War: Japanese Godfather

Yakuza War: Japanese Godfather
6.8/10
  • Release: 22/01/1977
  • Character: Fukushima
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
6.8/10
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.

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
6.6/10
Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

The Shogun Assassins

The Shogun Assassins
6.6/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 01/09/1979
  • Character: Sanada Nobuyuki
This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Hunter in the Dark

Hunter in the Dark
7/10
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.

Yanagase Blues

Yanagase Blues
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1967
  • Character: Jiro Fukumoto
Jiro, a smooth-talking, womanizing bartender, flees from a Yakuza boss to Yanagase.

The Murder Corps

The Murder Corps
  • Release: 24/05/1975
A violent upstart forms an alliance with the powerful Tensei-kai syndicate to fight on the front lines of an underworld war and take over all of Japan.

Ryakudatsu ai

Ryakudatsu ai
6.8/10
The fear of the fiercely obsessive woman who deprives her best friend of her husband. An emotionally charged movie starring Hitomi Kuroki, Masato Furuoya, and Hisako Manda.

Devil's Flute

Devil's Flute
6.1/10
  • Release: 20/01/1979
  • Character: Shunroku Kazama
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.

Down with The Big Boss

Down with The Big Boss
5.9/10
In pre-war Japan, two members of a large yakuza syndicate instigate a turf war that embroils the highest echelons of Tokyo's underworld.

Capone Cries a Lot

Capone Cries a Lot
6.4/10
Umiemon is a naniwa-bushi singer who travels with his wife to the United States in hopes of achieving fame and fortune.

Yakuza Graveyard

Yakuza Graveyard
7.1/10
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.

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