Best movies of Tamio Kawaji

Actors : Hideaki Nitani, Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

After his gang disbands, a yakuza enforcer looks forward to life outside of organized crime but soon must become a drifter after his old rivals attempt to assassinate him.

Actors : Misako Watanabe, Minako Katsuki, Tamio Kawaji, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A violent thug plays opposing yakuza bosses against each other.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Yôko Yamamoto, Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Hiroshi Noguchi,

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is ...

Actors : Isao Tamagawa, Yumiko Nogawa, Tamio Kawaji, Shôichi Ozawa,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

In WW2 Manchuria, a prostitute grows to resent an abusive adjutant and falls in love with his aide.

Actors : Eiji Gô, Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chishiro, Noriko Matsumoto,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and causes reckless mayhem, mostly directed at the girlfriend of the journalist who helped send him up.

Actors : Nobuo Kaneko, Tamio Kawaji, Reiko Sassamori, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Police detective Tajima, tasked with tracking down stolen firearms, turns an underworld grudge into a blood-bath. Suzuki transforms a colorful pot-boiler into an on-target send-up of cultural colonialism and post-war greed.

Actors : Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka, Chieko Matsubara, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Takumi Furukawa,

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

Actors : Sayuri Yoshinaga, Tamio Kawaji, Shinako Nakagawa, Yoshiko Nezu,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

The young rebel Juro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, with the lover of the latter and with a girl in love with him.

Actors : Hideji Ôtaki, Tamio Kawaji, Yuko Chishiro, Chico Roland,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

Actors : Naoko Kubo, Tamio Kawaji, Chieko Matsubara, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Another subversion of audience expectations has Kobayashi acting somewhat cowardly in the snow-bound final showdown, an unheard-of trait in a ninkyô yakuza hero. Also with Tamio Kawaji as a sword-wielding assassin in Zero-cape-and -hat(!)

Actors : Hideaki Nitani, Tamio Kawaji, Akira Kobayashi, Jô Shishido,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still loyal to the ex-boss, ...

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Shôki Fukae, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Gangster thriller.

Actors : Kayo Matsuo, Keiko Sugiyama, Tamio Kawaji, Noriko Matsumoto,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

A high school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighboring city.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Yôko Minamida, Tamio Kawaji, Yuji Kodaka,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

A rambunctious, rough-and-tumble tale of a rowdy trio (Shishido, Kawaji,Yamauchi) of gambling bumpkins belonging to a rural yakuza clan. Much humor.

Actors : Kôji Wada, Yumiko Nogawa, Tamio Kawaji, Chikako Miyagi,
Directors : Seijun Suzuki,

Like a girl runaway, Tsuyu moves to Osaka to work as a bar hostess. She meets the owner of a model school, Yoko, and seriously thinks about becoming a fashion model. Yoko tells her that she...

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Sanae Kitabayashi, Chieko Matsubara,
Directors : Keiichi Ozawa,

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro (Tetsuya Watari) is in the middle of action.

Actors : Jirô Tamiya, Taisaku Akino, Kôji Takahashi, Tamio Kawaji,
Directors : Yûsuke Watanabe,

An assassin reconnects with his past while his friend desires change.

Actors : Tetsuya Watari, Tamio Kawaji, Yuri Yoshioka, Mieko Fujimoto,
Directors : Yasuharu Hasebe,

The clash between a group of motorist gangster and a professional hunter who desire for revenge.