Best movies of Fumio Watanabe

Actors : Fumio Watanabe, Tomoko Mayama, Shigeru Tsuyuguchi, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kenji Misumi,

The story of a Ronin (i.e. a masterless samurai) who wanders the countryside of Japan with his small child, having various adventures.

Actors : Goichi Yamada, Shin'ichi Chiba, Fumio Watanabe, Etsuko Shiomi,
Directors : Shigehiro Ozawa,

Tough karate master Terry Tsurugi takes it upon himself to protect a late businessman's daughter from the Yakuza.

Actors : Kayoko Shiraishi, Meiko Kaji, Yukie Kagawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

After spending a year in solitary confinement, Matsu escapes from prison with six more convicts, followed by the guards led by the vengeful warden who wants her dead at all costs.

Actors : Yûsuke Kawazu, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Yoshiko Kuga,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class men.

Actors : Hôsei Komatsu, Fumio Watanabe, Kei Satô, Do-yun Yu,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A Korean man is sentenced to death by hanging, but he survives the execution. For the following two hours, his executioners try to work out how to handle the situation in this black farce.

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tetsuo Abe, Tsuyoshi Kinoshita, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

A young boy reluctantly aids his swindling father in a threatening scam.

Actors : Kayoko Honoo, Fumio Watanabe, Isao Sasaki, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Actors : Hiroshi Akutagawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Actors : Kayoko Honoo, Yûsuke Kawazu, Shima Iwashita, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Masahiro Shinoda,

A young journalist turns to an assassin for help when a team of hired killers comes gunning for her.

Actors : Hiroyuki Nagato, Mariko Kaga, Shôichi Ozawa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Kazuo Kuroki,

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.

Actors : Teruo Yoshida, Masumi Tachibana, Reiko Mikasa, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

The Joy of Torture is an anthology that is made up of three separate stories that all intersect: The first segment is about Shinza who was hurt while working when a log hit him on the head,...

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Shin'ichi Chiba, Toshiaki Minami, Fumio Watanabe,
Directors : Ryuichi Takamori,

Hayata is an undercover cop assigned to infiltrate not one, but two rival Yakuza gangs. Things get complicated when Hayata gets into a relationship with a young schoolteacher, the daughter ...

Actors : Fumio Watanabe, Ken Takakura, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

One of Toei's last ninkyô yakuza pictures of the 1970's.