Name
Takuzō Kawatani
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1941-07-21
Deathday
1995-12-22 (54 years old)
Place of Birth
Changchun, Jilin, China
Biography
Takuzo Kawatani was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 165 films between 1967 and 1995. He was most famous for playing villains.
Known For
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
(125 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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Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation
(10 Votes)
7.2
A local yakuza boss of a silk farming town shows kindness to the wandering gambler Oryu by...
Relase Date : 22 Nov, 1968
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Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka final...
Relase Date : 28 Apr, 1973
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7.4
The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true live...
Relase Date : 1 Nov, 1975
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Empire of Passion
(140 Votes)
6.846
A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his gh...
Relase Date : 6 Sep, 1978
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7.02
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic Games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, u...
Relase Date : 15 Jan, 1974
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Oxen Split Torturing
(32 Votes)
5.8
Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christia...
Relase Date : 4 Sep, 1976
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Japan Organized Crime Boss
(12 Votes)
7.375
Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of hi...
Relase Date : 8 Jul, 1969
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Yakuza Graveyard
(39 Votes)
6.577
A police investigator cracks down on yakuza business, but once he realizes the police are ...
Relase Date : 30 Oct, 1976
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Doberman Cop
(30 Votes)
6.533
Joji Kano is a loose cannon cop from backwoods Okinawa, sent to Tokyo to investigate the g...
Relase Date : 2 Jul, 1977
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Movies
Tv Shows
- 1969 Ex-Convict - Territory of Rampage
- 1969 Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
- 1967 Shogun and His Mistress 2
- 1968 Red Peony Gambler as Henchman
- 1970 Red Peony Gambler: Oryu's Return as Henchman
- 1974 Student Yakuza
- 1989 Osomatsu-kun: Greetings From The Watermelon Planet-zansu! as Dayon (voice) / Kemunpasu (voice)
- 1972 Eight Men to Kill as Guard
- 1971 A Scarred Life
- 1969 Gambler's Legacy
- 1973 Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle
- 1974 The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
- 1976 A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Matsutaro Tokuda
- 1975 Pimp Heaven as Mr Zen
- 1976 Yakuza Graveyard as Detective Kajiyama
- 1974 Jeans Blues: No Future as Ishimatsu
- 1978 Empire of Passion as Inspector Hotta
- 1972 The Kanto Scarlet Cherry Gang as Gang member
- 1970 Wicked Priest 4: The Killer Priest Comes Back
- 1973 The Kyoto Connection
- 1967 Three Gamblers as Prison Guard
- 1986 Death Shadows as Yasuke
- 1969 Kanto Street Peddlers as Iwase
- 1978 Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron as Sanji
- 1971 Kanto Street Peddlers: Violent Fire Festival as Kazuo Tsukamoto
- 1985 Tracked as Ichiro Makabe
- 1991 Heat Wave as Ryukichi Ineda
- 1975 Virgin Breaker Yuki as Rokuzo
- 1977 Decapitation of an Evil Woman
- 1987 The Great Department Store Robbery
- 1982 Kidnapping Blues as Farmer
- 1974 The Rapacious Jailbreaker as Osamu Miyabe
- 1973 Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School as Detective B
- 1984 For Kayako as Irujun Im
- 1975 Story of a Nymphomaniac as Hisamatsu
- 1965 Blood of Revenge
- 1976 Truckster Goes to Hokkaido
- 1972 Hikage-Mono
- 1970 House of Gamblers
- 1974 Woman Mobsters
- 1994 The Man Who Shot the Don
- 1992 The Dream of Russia as Koichi
- 1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode as Moriya Hitoshi
- 1991 Hokui 15° no duo as Takuzō
- 1976 Violent Panic: The Big Crash as Sakuji Hatano
- 1975 The Karate 3
- 1968 Return of the Outlaw
- 1972 Modern Lady Gambler
- 1970 A Wad of Notes as Yakuza
- 1974 人妻セックス地獄
- 1973 Terrifying Girls' High School: Delinquent Convulsion Group as Tokumaru
- 1969 Yakuza Law
- 1968 Wicked Priest 2: Ballad of Murder as Thug
- 1965 The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
- 1974 Third Generation Boss
- 1965 Code of Ruffians
- 1991 Kumokiri Nizaemon: The Great Bandit
- 1968 Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger as Henchman
- 1969 Red Peony Gambler: Second Generation Ceremony
- 1973 The High Cost of Virginity
- 1988 Mother
- 1977 Short and Fat as Kazuto Tonoma
- 1987 Ronin on a Mission as Mori Kojiro
- 1995 The King of Minami: Sweet Trap
- 1982 The Buddy: Yaji and Kita as Tajibee
- 1972 Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro
- 1985 Tora-san's Island Encounter as Sakai
- 1987 River of Fireflies
- 1979 Goodbye, Flickmania as Dan
- 1969 Memoir of Japanese Assassinations as Soldier
- 1989 Harimao as Tani Tamakichi
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima as Mitsuo Iwashita
- 1987 Guys Who Never Learn
- 1970 Whipmaster: Ballad of Murder
- 1976 A Savage Beast Goes Mad as Saburo Tanimura
- 1978 Truck Rascals: Another Odyssey of Momojiro
- 1976 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Last Days of the Boss as Kazunari Tsugawa
- 1976 The Most Perverted Post War Crimes
- 1974 The Fancy Man as Shoji Akita
- 1977 Doberman Cop as Hiyoshi Kinoshita
- 1975 Cops vs. Thugs
- 1975 Gambling Den Heist as Tetsuya bessho
- 1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood as Sergeant Major Nagata
- 1985 The Burmese Harp as Sgt. Ido
- 1976 The Yakuza Code Still Lives as Teruhisa Yoshinaga
- 1973 Yakuza of the Present as Uno
- 1974 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 as Nanba Family Member
- 1969 Wicked Priest 3: A Killer's Pilgrimage
- 1974 The Maizuru Showdown between The Yakuza Brothers
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Ryoichi Enami
- 1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War as Katsuji Saijo
- 1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics as Policeman at hospital
- 1975 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Head of the Boss as Detective
- 1975 Shimane Prison Riot as Yakuza underling
- 1977 The Smart Aleck Ten
- 1991 Maji!
- 1974 Code of Wolves
- 1976 Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District
- 1987 Eien no 1/2
- 1972 Lustful Shogun and His 21 Mistresses as Prisoner
- 1972 The Red Silk Gambler
- 1969 Yakuza on Foot
- 1989 Zatoichi: Darkness Is His Ally
- 1971 Okoma, the Orphan Gambler
- 1972 Girl Boss Guerilla as Yakuza henchman
- 1967 Code Between Brothers 5 as Yakuza henchman
- 1971 Red Peony Gambler: Here to Kill You
- 1974 Return of the Street Fighter
- 1972 Red Peony Gambler: Execution of Duty
- 1968 Wicked Priest as Yakuza henchman
- 1977 The Life of Chikuzan as Senta
- 1973 Aesthetics of a Bullet
- 1975 Evil Doers
- 1972 Turtle Geisha as Murata
- 1976 The Three Ginza Rascals
- 1970 Silk Hat Boss
- 1970 The Silk Hat Boss 2
- 1974 Yakuza vs. Gang Leader
- 1976 Operation Plazma in Osaka
- 1976 Kawachi Rascal Is Spurred On as Matsutaro Tokuda
- 1972 Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
- 1974 The Street Fighter as Skull Crushed Yakuza Thug Ôshima
- 1972 The Pledge
- 1967 Eleven Samurai
- 1970 A Lively Geisha
- 1967 Heiji, the Detective
- 1969 The Biggest Gamble
- 1988 Crane as Umaemon
- 1974 Bohachi Bushido: The Villain
- 1994 Momotarō Zamurai III
- 1975 Company Buggers
- 1970 A Yakuza Goes Home as Tatsuo
- 1986 Sure Death! 3
- 1973 The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers
- 1992 Succession as Kyozo Shigeta
- 1971 Wicked Priest 5: Breaking The Commandments
- 1968 Gamblers: The Raid as Umekichi
- 1975 Scoundrel Boss as Katsuo Rojo
- 1995 The Third Gangster
- 1975 The Viper Brothers and the Young General
- 1974 The Tattooed Hitman as Kiyoshi
- 1968 Red Peony Gambler: Gambler's Obligation as Thug
- 1970 The Silk Hat Boss 2 as Thug
- 1993 Baian the Assassin: Showdown
- 1973 Dangerous Trade in Kobe
- 1986 Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma as Kogoro Katsura
- 1991 Deer Friend
- 1985 Kimi ga kagayaku toki
- 1976 Oxen Split Torturing
- 1969 Samurai Geisha
- 1969 Killer's Mission as Guard
- 1971 Fate Deals the Card of Death as Yakuza
- 1972 A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell
- 1991 Let's Shoot Ridiculously
- 1993 Haruka, Nostalgia as Tosaku Satoh
- 1971 The Viper Brothers as Togo Shinkawa (thug)
- 1991 The Man Who Became The Don
- 1966 The Protector
- 1971 The Man
- 1977 Japanese Humanity and Justice
- 1971 A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers
- 1983 Kigeki kazoku dōmei
- 1971 Bitter Tears of a Woman Gambler
- 1969 Japan Organized Crime Boss as Policeman (uncredited)
- 1979 本日ただいま誕生
- 1993 Rainbow Bridge
- 1973 Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight as Ninja (uncredited)
- 1980 Aitsu to Ore ( 1 episode )
- 1975 前略おふくろ様 ( 1 episode )
- 1992 Izakaya Chōji ( 1 episode )
- 1985 Kokugo Gannen ( 5 episodes )
- 1980 Keishi-K ( 13 episodes )
- 1987 Chotchan ( 156 episodes ) as 野々村泰輔
- Soon Downtown Story ( 13 episodes )
- 1989 Hana no Furu Gogo ( 6 episodes )
- 1993 悪女Ⅱ サンテミリオン殺人事件 ( 1 episode )
