Kōjirō Kusanagi
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Known For:Acting
Birthday:1929-09-19
Place of Birth:Tokyo, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan
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Also Known As:Кодзиро Кусанаги

The Sun (2005)
A re-imagination of Japanese Emperor Hirohito’s final days in power as WWII draws to a close.

Angel and the Outlaw (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Maison Ikkoku - Apartment Fantasy (1986)
Travel into Japan's nuttiest apartment house and meet its volatile inhabitants: Kyoko, the beautiful and mysterious new apartment manager; Yusaku,...

Alone Across the Pacific (1963)
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

A Colt Is My Passport (1967)
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

I Hate But Love (1962)
A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

I Love The Sun (1966)
A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

I Am Waiting (1957)
A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Heisei Zankeiden: Gaido is Killed! (1997)
Takanezawa, a young head of the Yokohama Kibe group, confronts the Kansai organization that forces the transfer of Shima with the debt of the...

Heisei Gokudoden Yasha Tears! (1999)
Seven years have passed since the incident of the previous work. Yakuza Seiji, who was called a "Bodhisattva" and was afraid of being a "Yaksha" if...

Truckster Goes to Hokkaido (1976)
Momojiro comes to the rescue of beautiful Akiko who struggles to run a ranch on her own.

Carlos (1991)
V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.

The Man Who Stole the Sun (1979)
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks...

Facing to the Clouds (1962)
A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko...

Intimidation (1960)
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

The Warped Ones (1960)
A juvenile delinquent gets out of the pen and immediately embarks on a rampage of untethered anger, most of it directed at the girlfriend of the...

Yami wo saku kuchibue (1960)
A unique action film about a battle between two students and a yakuza over the eviction fee for a family that abandoned their home at the bottom of...

Lost Love (1978)
At a seaside city somewhere in the Tohoku area, the corpses of Nozomi, daughter of an affluent family, and Yamazaki, son of an engineer at the local...

Modern Children (1963)
After their father dies, his children try to get by on a house boat.

Girl in the Glass (1960)
The film starts with a short scene ending with shot of Sayuri Yoshinaga's character floating dead on the surface of a lake before the opening credits...

Bakayaro! I'm Plenty Mad (1988)
Anthology film. "What's Wrong with Eating?" Numayama Kazuki is always complaining about his wife's, Atsugi Shizuka, body shape. Because of that...

Streetlights (1957)
A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

Second Generation Young Boss (1969)
Takeshi Nanjo, a junior lieutenant in the navy whose father, the head of the Nanjo-gumi yakuza family, was killed, is forced to leave the army and...

田舎刑事 時間よ、とまれ (1977)
A family murder case that occurred in Hita City, Oita Prefecture. A murderer whose statute of limitations is about to expire is shown on TV, and...

Yakuza Lawyer Haruhiko Ayanokoji (1994)
The fourth head of the Masashimizu group suddenly died. It was good until his adopted son Haruhiko Ayanokoji, a lawyer, succeeded him, but the gang...

Dorei kōjō (1968)
After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

Karate Cop (1982)
A martial arts master/detective investigates a series of murders and helps a deaf bathhouse attendant, Hisako.

Song of a Traveller (1962)
A crime film released in 1962

The Scarred Angel (1966)
A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

The Night is mine (1958)
Four criminals break into the home of a jewelry merchant, Sanpodo, rob the diamonds, and escape. However, one of them receives a bullet during a...

Woman in a Box: Virgin Sacrifice (1985)
A young virgin is captured by an abnormal couple. The girl is kept locked in a wooden box, and subjected to sexual torture and abuse. Loosely...

Chivalrous Life (1965)
In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...

Madadayo (1993)
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Shinobu Otake's Inspirational Girl: Youth Lived by Love and Psychic Powers (1980)
The biography of Mifune Chizuko a woman clairvoyant.

The Sleeping Beast Within (1960)
When a middle aged salaryman is unknowingly used by drug traffickers he is dishonored and fires back at the Yakuza bosses, with destructive...

The Sands of Kurobe (1968)
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of...

Nowhere Man (1991)
Sukezo, a former manga comic artist, takes up the art rock business by setting up a shop in a shed by the river. He tries hard to be successful, but...

Dead Angle (1979)
Elite college graduates commit perfect financial crimes though loopholes in the law during the 1950s.

Memories of You (1988)
University student Akira meets the lovely 14-year-old Yumi, whom he had tutored years ago. Her mother is told by her doctor that the schoolgirl has...

Private Detective DOBU 5: The Pinwheel Murder Case (1983)
After two thugs are killed, Dobu and his crew have three days to catch the murderers. Dobu suspects a hidden mastermind influencing the magistrate.

No More God, No More Love (1985)
Released after seven years in prison, an inveterate thug goes from strength to ruthless strength as he makes his way through a succession of dubious...

Strike the White Ball (1980)
1980 Japanese film distributed by Shochiku.

The Skies of Haruo (1977)
1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

Barefoot Gen (1976)
First live action adaptation of Keiji Nakazawa's manga.

The Long Death (1964)
On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

The Fugitive Samurai (1984)
Itto Ogami- High Executioner to the Shogun- has been betrayed by his political enemies and sentenced to a dishonorable death. Seeking to restore the...

Danger Pays (1962)
Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...

At Noon (1978)
Tadao decides to comes back from Tokyo to live in his home town, in the countryside. He stays at his parents place and finds a job, repairing...

Harbor Rats (1957)
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

Be-Bop Highschool: The Power (1988)
A heated argument between middle school thugs leads to a fierce war between two rival high schools when Toru's girlfriend, Shoko, gets involved.

Be-Bop High School: A Delinquent Student March (1987)
A sly prep school thug uses his girlfriend to lure Hiroshi and Toru to a fight, but the scheme escalates to an all-out war between everyone involved.

The Gentlemen’s Alliance (1986)
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.

The Killing Game (1978)
The second movie of Tôru Murakawa's "Game" trilogy. After making a sensational hit, a hitman has gone into hiding for five years. When he comes...

The Execution Game (1979)
The third movie in Tōru Murakawa's Game trilogy about a hitman. Narumi is set up by a mysterious woman. Abducted and tortured, Narumi is forced to...

Target (1980)
Two killers revenge a wirepuller of the underworld in Yokohama.

The Tragedy of “W” (1984)
A young girl is striving for stardom. In order to get a lead role in a new production, she agrees to stand-in for a famous star whose rich patron...

The Days of No Return (1978)
The story of a high school boy (Toshiyuki Nagashima) in Tokyo returning to his home town of Nagano upon the death of his father.

The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf (1979)
A seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salaryman leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to...

Sexual Crime (1983)
Three people whose lives have taken a turn for the worse retreat into a world of erotic dreams made flesh in this drama from director Sai Yoichi. An...

Shadow Hunters (1972)
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...

Cruel Gun Story (1964)
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...

Stranger (1991)
After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless...

Darkness at Noon (1956)
Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

Woman from the Sea (1959)
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a...

The Last Hero (1982)
The 8th All-Japan Road Race Championship. The internationally ranked A-level SUGO circuit is on the edge of its seat as the 500 cc final draws near. ...

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger (1960)
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is...

A Killer Without a Grave (1961)
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that...

Be-Bop High School 2 (1986)
Teen thugs Hiroshi and Toru get caught in a street war when their prized school trousers are forcefully taken from them by punks from a rival school.

XX: Beautiful Target (1995)
When beautiful forensic scientist Kyoko and her colleagues fail to uncover clues to the identity of a man who brutally attacks and kills women, she...

Farewell to the Land (1982)
Yukio is an ex-farmer working as a dump-truck driver in Kashima. Haunted by the drowning of his two young sons, whose names he has had tattooed on...

Sign of the Jack (1970)
Hanamura, widely known in gangland a professional trouble shooter has the sign of the Jack tattooed on his chest. His follower is his sworn partner...

The Beast to Die (1980)
A policeman is murdered and his gun, stolen, used to commit the next crime. Detective Kashiwagi, who is leading the investigation, learns that the...

Lowly Ronin (1981)
Reprising his role from the popular TV series "Koya no Suronin" (The Lowly Ronin), Mifune Toshiro stars in this full-length, stand-alone made for TV...

Woman's Trail: Wet Path (1980)
A stripper reluctantly returns to her manager and husband with her new lover in tow. The lover tries to claim her but after escaping a beating he...

Zatoichi Challenged (1967)
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...

Night Drum (1958)
Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

Break Out (1988)
An accidental shooting on the job and a recent divorce take a toll on the personal and professional life of a Japanese detective. Just as it seems he...

The Young and Bad (1962)
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

The Spiders' The Noisy Parade (1968)
Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!

Wait for Tomorrow (1960)
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

The Highest Honour (1982)
After a highly successful raid on Singapore Harbour, soldiers of Z Special Unit lead a new expedition in Singapore, with disastrous results.

The Vanished (2006)
A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.

Jigokudo Spiritual Press (1996)
Upon rescuing a friend who is being held captive by a wicked classmate and his gang of bullies, 11-year-olds Tetsushi, Yuusuke, and Ryoji...

An Ocean to Cross (1980)
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Appassionata (1984)
This story is based on the novel "Jo no mai" by Tomiko Miyao which is based on the life of painter Shōen Uemura (1875–1949), the first woman...

The Passionate Spinster (1965)
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Disciples of Hippocrates (1980)
The story revolves around Ogino, who is in the last year of his medical studies. Between lectures, exams, on field training, his commitment as a...

Playtime Never Ends (1991)
A serious-minded policeman plays the role of robber in a police training operation against bank robberies. He's so good his fellow policemen can't...

The Hidden Trail of the Beasts (1981)
A star tennis player takes revenge on the blackmailers out to ruin his athletic career.

Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light (1978)
Film distributed by ATG.

Akitsu Hot Springs (1962)
Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal...

Nomugi Pass (1979)
The story of the silk industry and the young girls who worked as silk spinners in the early 1900s in Japan. The silk mills were located in Okaya...

Willful Murder (1981)
The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and...

The Deep Red (2005)
Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a...

The Forest of the Little Bear (1987)
Hunting master Ginzo kills a man-eating bear. When he finds out the bear had a cub, Ginzo decides to raise the cub, but the bear later becomes a...

Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip (1969)
14th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series

Snake and Lady Slave (1976)
Hisayoshi, who was known as "Matahisa" and was a famous bondage artist in the Kansai region, is now a pimp for Mary of Snake Show and does massage....

Juvenile Delinquent: Shout of the Rising Sun (1967)
A film about a juvenile delinquent who swears, yet fails, to rehabilitate.

The Day of Youth (1960)
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away...

To the Sea, See You (1988)
Team DANKAI are a group of drivers set to compete in the Paris-Dakar Rally, an off-road endurance race spanning thousands of miles and multiple...

Kashin (1977)
Centered around Masujiro Omura, who became a commander for the Choshu clan, and founded the modern Japanese millitary system.

Haru no Sakamichi (1971)
The story chronicles the life of Yagyū Munenori.

Professional Killers (1972)
A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one...

The Roads Men Travel (1976)
The series depicts the employees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds facing many difficult questions. It features a...