Cast: Isao Tamagawa

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Isao Tamagawa. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Story of a Prostitute

1965 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yumiko Nogawa · Isao Tamagawa · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the brutal Lieutenant Narita but falls for the...

6.8

142 votes

6.8

142 votes

Fighting Elegy

1966 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Hideki Takahashi · Yusuke Kawazu · Junko Asano · Takeshi Katô

Plot High schooler Nanbu Kiroku yearns for the prim, Catholic Michiko, but her only desire is to reform Kiroku's sinful tendencies. Hormones raging, Kiroku channels his unsatisfied lust into the only...

6.7

86 votes

6.7

86 votes

Branded to Kill

1967 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Jô Shishido · Mariko Ogawa · Koji Nambara · Anne Mari

Plot The film's story centers on Hanada, a.k.a. "No. 3 Killer," the third-best hit man in Japanese organized crime. Near the top of his game, his fortunes change when he encounters...

6.7

842 votes

6.7

842 votes

Heat-Haze Theatre

1981 · Movie · 139 min. · Japan

Direction Seijun Suzuki

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Michiyo Oguso · Mariko Kaga · Katsuo Nakamura

Plot The fever-dream follow-up to his acclaimed "Zigeunerweisen", the enigmatically erotic "Kagero-Za" is the second film in Seijun Suzuki's Taishô Trilogy -- this time set in the disjointed cityscapes and surrounding...

6.6

34 votes

6.6

34 votes

5.4

80 votes

Shoot Before You Get Shot!

1976 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Tadao Nakamaru · Yôko Yamamoto · Kumi Yaguchi

Plot Crazy 1970s action movie from veteran genre filmmaker Inoue Umetsugu.

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Outlaw: Heartless

1968 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Mio Ezaki

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Chieko Matsubara · Kôji Wada · Hiroshi Nawa

Plot Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem, owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer....

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The Stars and I Decided...

1965 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

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Yomigaeru daichi

1971 · Movie · 119 min. · Japan

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Left-Handed Tokyo Bay Sniper

1962 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Kyoko Aoi · Jirô Ishizaki · Koji Mitsui · Kô Nishimura

Plot An undercover Japanese cop meant to operate within a gang, which deals in drugs is killed, by a sniper. The police are searching for a left-handed man as they determined...

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Sunshine in the Old Neighborhood

1963 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Kyoko Aoi · Michi Aoyama · Kamatari Fujiwara

Plot Machiko (Chieko Baisho) lives comfortably with her father, grandmother and two younger brothers while working at a cosmetics factory in Shitamachi. Her boyfriend Michio (Tamotsu Hayakawa) has dreams of landing...

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Call My Black Dice

1964 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

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The Street Without Sun

1954 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

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The Sands of Kurobe

1968 · Movie · 196 min. · Japan

Direction Kei Kumai

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Yujiro Ishihara · Osamu Takizawa · Takashi Shimura

Plot Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel...

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My Fate Is to Wander

1966 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

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