Best movies of Tsunehiko Watase

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masao Kusakari, Isao Natsuyagi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

After a virus devastates the global human population, survivors in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure and save the human race.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Eiji Okada, Ken Takakura, Masako Natsume,
Directors : Koreyoshi Kurahara,

Two Japanese scientists, Ushioda and Ochi, develop a bond with their sled dogs while on an expedition in Antarctica. Ushioda and Ochi eventually leave Antarctica, only to return to search ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Kôji Tsuruta, Akiko Kudô, Tomisaburô Wakayama,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Bunta Sugawara, Shingo Yamashiro, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Yakuza boss Shozo Hirono must choose his alliances carefully as the local gangster family affiliations prove themselves to be wildly unstable, causing gang conflicts to slowly escalate.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shôtarô Hayashi, Nobiko Sawa, Tomoko Kiyoshima,
Directors : Junji Kurata,

A Japanese village is menaced by a plesiosaur from the depths of the sea. Meanwhile, deep in a cave of ice, a prehistoric egg begins to hatch. The plesiosaur and the mystery creature ...

Actors : Kôichi Satô, Tsunehiko Watase, Toshiyuki Nishida, Anna Nakagawa,
Directors : Jun'ya Satô,

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Masaomi Kondô, Kinnosuke Nakamura,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701 -- 1702, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the revenge of its former samurai on the ... See full synopsis »

Actors : Akiko Koyama, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kazuhiko Yamaguchi,

Nami is an ex-convict who becomes a hostess to support a sick woman who bailed her out. In doing so, she gets involved in a local gangster's scheme to take over the bar she works for.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Hiroko Yakushimaru, Rentarô Mikuni, Yuki Kazamatsuri,
Directors : Shinji Sômai,

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Tsunehiko Watase, Meiko Kaji, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Miki Sugimoto, Yayoi Watanabe, Hideo Murota,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil. But in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Hiroki Matsukata, Tatsuo Umemiya, Akira Kobayashi,
Directors : Sadao Nakajima,

There is almost non-stop action and violent brutality guys get cooked to death in oil drums, fires erupt and car explode.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Yoshiko Fujita, Teruo Yoshida, Makoto Satô,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A companion piece to another Ishii directed picture from 1970, also starring Watase, Yoshida and Sato called PRISONERS' BACK LIST.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Keiko Matsuzaka, Toshiyuki Nagashima, Shinobu Ohtake,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

The body of Sakai Hatsuko, a woman of 23 who has been slain with a knife, has been found in a forest. Some days later, Ueda Hiroshi, a 19-year-old shipyard worker, is arrested and charged ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Mayuko Wakamori, Tomoe Hiiro, Yukiyo Toake,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

A five-year-old girl gets a tiny scratch on her finger while playing with mud in a marsh. After that, she suffers all kinds of horrible spasms including biting her tongue.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Makoto Fujita, Kaoru Kobayashi, Asami Kobayashi,
Directors : Yoshitarô Nomura,

A mysterious story involving the disappearance of Tatsuo's three brothers. Tatsuo, thinks that he too may disappear and has a nervous breakdown. His fiance visits a neurologist, who ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Shin'ichi Chiba, Reiko Ike, Tatsuya Fuji,
Directors : Buichi Saitô,

Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Yuriko Hishimi, Bunta Sugawara, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

Sugawara is Kuroda, an itinerant gambler who steps in when a hit by drug-addicted assassin Kusunoki goes wrong, and takes the fall on behalf of the Owada family, but when the gang fails to ...

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Takashi Tsukamoto, Yû Kashii, Kenta Suga,
Directors : Yôjirô Takita,

The Japanese comic character angles for a legendary monster fish.

Actors : Tsunehiko Watase, Mayumi Nagisa, Bunta Sugawara, Tatsuo Umemiya,
Directors : Kôsaku Yamashita,

One of the only pre-1980s yakuza films to be dubbed-into-English.