Name
Tamio Kawachi
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1938-07-21
Deathday
2018-02-10 (80 years old)
Place of Birth
Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography
Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).
Known For
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
(128 Votes)
7.3
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselve...
Relase Date : 13 Jan, 1973
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Story of a Prostitute
(47 Votes)
6.6
Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to servic...
Relase Date : 27 Feb, 1965
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Gappa, the Triphibian Monster
(52 Votes)
5.6
An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship th...
Relase Date : 22 Apr, 1967
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Tokyo Drifter
(220 Votes)
7.068
After yakuza boss Kurata dissolves his own criminal empire, a rival kingpin offers a posit...
Relase Date : 10 Apr, 1966
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Cruel Gun Story
(21 Votes)
6.7
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking reven...
Relase Date : 1 Feb, 1964
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1967 Gappa, the Triphibian Monster as Hiroshi Kurosaki
- 1963 Jidanya
- 2007 The History of Yakuza Struggles in Kyushu - The Ogura War
- 2001 Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant as Osa
- 2003 Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle as Owada
- 2003 Gozu
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kanbara Seiichi
- 1969 Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
- 1968 Wind of Youth
- 1972 The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
- 1976 A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Doctor
- 1974 The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
- 1973 The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
- 2017 Conquest 11
- 2017 Conquest 10
- 1962 Hana no saigetsu
- 2004 Road to the Don 23
- 2000 Fighting Knife Yoshi
- 1990 Bad Guys Only
- 2005 Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū
- 2007 Road to New Don
- 2008 Road to New Don 2
- 1970 A Gangster's Morals
- 2007 Tainted Emblem: The Final Chapter
- 1966 Tokyo Drifter as Tatsuzo the Viper
- 1960 The Wild, Unruly Drifter
- 1965 Story of a Prostitute as Shinkichi Mikami
- 1964 Cruel Gun Story as Takizawa
- 1964 Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Kurokawa
- 2000 Shura ga Yuku 9
- 1966 Watashi, chigatteiru kashira as Yoshida
- 2007 Yakuza no daimon
- 2007 Yakuza Emblem Chapter 2
- 2007 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 3
- 2008 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 5
- 2008 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 4
- 2002 Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution 2
- 2001 Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
- 2008 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 6
- 2009 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 9
- 2008 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 7
- 2008 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 8
- 2009 Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 10
- 1960 The Warped Ones as Akira
- 1962 I Hate But Love as Hiroshi Ozaki
- 2001 Gunball
- 1983 Empress
- 1963 Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Manabe
- 1991 Heat Wave as Shinkichi, Hashiba
- 1964 Black Sun as Akira
- 1962 Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
- 1967 The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding as Ishikawa no Torakichi
- 1960 Everything Goes Wrong as Jirô Sugita
- 1970 Abare chōhan
- 1996 KISS ME
- 1961 Wharf Temperament as Eiji Iwasa
- 1963 Youth of the Beast as Hideo Nomoto
- 1992 Gorotsuki
- 1962 Naku n janai ze
- 1963 Prince of Wolves as Ginji Tachibana
- 1966 Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
- 1969 Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower
- 1967 Aruhi watashi wa
- 1968 若い川の流れ
- 1965 Gambling is My Destiny as Masa (The Drifter)
- 1962 Youth Turned Sideways
- 1997 Remembering the Cosmos Flower
- 1961 Hotbed of Crime
- 1998 East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights
- 1992 The Setting Sun
- 1962 Utau abarenbō
- 1965 Loss of Innocence
- 1997 Confinement Escape: Plundered Love
- 1992 Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan
- 1962 The Guys Who Put Money on Me as Kenjiro Yoshida
- 1960 Return of the Vagabond
- 1959 Woman from the Sea as Toshio
- 1970 Spartan Education
- 2006 Cool Dimension: Innocent Assassin
- 1964 The Flower and the Angry Waves
- 1964 Red Handkerchief
- 1968 Outlaw: Gangster VIP as Isamu Tsujikawa
- 1968 Retaliation as Naruse
- 1970 Waterfront Blues as Chiba
- 1966 Carmen from Kawachi as Seiji Takano
- 1985 Kekkon Annai Mystery
- 2001 A Yakuza Christian: A Battle in Hell
- 1987 The Forced Marriage with Children
- 1966 Star of Destiny
- 1985 Break Town Story
- 1980 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Seiichi Kanbara
- 2008 修羅之魂 ～激動渡世編～
- 2008 修羅之魂 ～侠客立志編～
- 1969 Savage Wolf Pack
- 1958 A Slope in the Sun as Tamio Takagi
- 1961 Yabure Kabure
- 1962 Teenage Yakuza as Jiro
- 1964 Welcome, My Baby as Toshio Tanimura
- 1967 The Black Sheep
- 1969 Mini-Skirt Lynchers
- 1969 Penitentiary Brothers as Jiro Matsubara
- 1984 Chi-n-pi-ra as Otani
- 1971 The Viper Brothers as Katsuji (Immortal Katsu)
- 1971 The Viper Brothers Rage Again
- 1968 Outlaw: Black Dagger as Sueo Shige
- 2006 Yakuza Don
- 1975 Shimane Prison Riot as Dog breeder
- 1961 Lost in the Sun
- 2003 Kanto Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
- 1960 The Drifter from the Sea
- 1964 Whirlpool of Flesh as Kenichi Sekiguchi
- 1983 Kazoku no sentaku as Yoichi Kanazawa
- 1971 A Man's World
- 1972 Informal Dress
- 2006 Waru: The End
- 1973 Professional Killers as Gozamatsu no Magohachi
- 1967 My Sweetheart as Kawachi
- 1963 I Fly for Kicks as Kenji Yoshioka
- 1995 Sukiyaki as Ryohel Mihara
- 1965 The Rule for a Vagabond as Naojiro
- 1961 Kitakami Nocturne as Keisuke Shirato
- 1982 The Imperial Japanese Empire
- 1977 Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu as Kenji Igarashi
- 1973 The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers as Katsu
- 1959 Friendship of Jazz as Kenji Kawazoe
- 1992 Investigation of a Typical Love as Takimura
- 1959 The Sky Is Mine
- 1964 Ningen ni kakeruna
- 1958 The Coming of Age as Yasushi Nanjô
- 1958 The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Kaoru Shirafuji
- 1959 Dream Young Man's Dream
- 1959 Umi wa kurutte iru
- 1959 Gun Number Zero as Yoshio
- 1959 Wounded Beast
- 1959 Downhill Youth as Yasuo Kawase
- 1959 Mighty Rules
- 1958 The Man Who Rode the Typhoon as Shiro Nezu
- 1959 The Stream of Youth as Yasuo Kitaoka
- 1959 When a Man Risks His Life as Masao Taniguchi
- 1958 Taiyō o buchi otose
- 1959 Hijo tehai
- 1958 Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
- 1959 Unripe Fruit
- 1958 Osaka no kaze
- 1972 The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
- 1975 The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- 1992 The Gambler as Honorable
- 1974 The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges
- 2007 Tainted Emblem
- 1963 The Hill is Full of Flowers as Masaya Nozaki
- 1970 Fossil of Love
- 1966 Cheers to the Sky
- 1964 Kaze to Ki to Sora to
- 2003 Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea
- 2011 The Lion Who Conquers Shura
- 2011 The Lion Who Conquers Shura 2
- 1961 Shōjo
- 1971 The Earth is Born Again as Yokoyama
- 1971 Night Butterflies
- 1960 Flowers in the rain
- 2004 修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇
- 1961 Aoime no Sugao
- 2000 Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey as Souichiro Sawai
- 1993 Emperor of Upheaval
- 1963 午前零時の出獄
- 1979 Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Yonaki Numa
- 1975 Pimp Heaven as Yoshiichi
- 1967 A Bumpkin of Tokyo
- 1961 Shokei zen'ya
- 1960 Boku wa naichicchi
- 1961 Zurari oretacha yōjinbō
- 1969 Yoru no mesu - Hana no inochi
- 1962 Night of Bloody Hell
- 2006 Proud Ambition 2
- 2005 Proud Ambition 3
- 1988 Soul Music: Lovers Only
- 1975 The Bullet Train as Satô
- 2007 True Account: The Chivalrous Dragon of Japan
- 2010 Exiled
- 2004 修羅のみち10 九州全面戦争
- 1969 Biographies of Killers
- 1965 In Tears
- 2000 Shin Mahjong Demon 5: Shinjuku Mahjong Showdown
- 1989 Beppin Town
- 2005 Isolation Letter
- 1961 Blue Hunter as Kawamura
- 1985 Osomatsu-kun: Iyami and Chibita's Cooking Showdown as Yasu the Gourmet
- 1966 Lost in the Rain ( 13 episodes ) as Nozaki Masaya
- 1972 Kogarashi Monjiro ( 1 episode ) as Sentaro
- 1980 Tokugawa no Onnatachi ( 1 episode )
- 1981 Pro Hunter ( 1 episode )
- 1997 Ultraman Dyna ( 51 episodes ) as Sawai So-Ichiro
- 1976 Daihijôsen ( 10 episodes )
