Ryûji Katagiri

Ryûji Katagiri

Total Credits at Criticker: 18 (Actor), 1 (Director)

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    Family
    Shudder at the Yakuza Mafia's takeover of Japan's dark side. There is no bond like the Family bond of the Yakuza. The story of Japan's Yakuza Families and the ultimate test of loyalty. Kidnapping, murder, boat chases, big explosions, sexual exchanges, beautiful women and drugs abound in this beautifully shot film. (diabolikdvd.com)
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    The Yakuza Papers 5: Final Episode
    n this violent and morally ambiguous crime drama from master genre filmmaker Kinji Fukasaku, Takeda (Akira Kobayashi), a longtime leader of one of Hiroshima's Yakuza families (the Japanese Mafia), attempts to resolve the longtime war between various mob factions by reshaping his organization into a political organization that would be both powerful and legal. (All Movie Guide)
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    Jittemai
    A strange world of the criminal underground during Samurai times where a trio of mute assassins hack their way across ancient Edo looking for evil in a dreamlike world of corruption, where priests rob the dead and daughters get a hand at the family business of killing. (hkdvdstore.com)
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    Onna gokumon chou: hikisakareta nisou
    This weird mixture of period splatter movie and Japanese nunsploitation is about a girl called Omino, a young woman who flees from her master and ends up in a convent full of man-hating, murderous nuns. (bulletsnbabesdvd.com forum)
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    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
    The movie is set in Kure (same place as Yakuza Papers part 1), and the initial story once again revolves around the Yamamori clan. Boss Yamamori is the same whining, crying bastard you hate from the original series. In this new series Bunta plays Mikio Miyoshi of the Yamamori family. He is a similar type of character to the one he played in the first set of movies. These new ones are differernt though. There is a lot more (uncoregraphed) gun violence. (KG)
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    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 2: Boss\
    The seventh in the shocking "Jingi Naki Tatakai" movie series, which exposes the true lives of the yakuza that is hidden by a mask of "jingi". The next stage of this continuing drama is the Kanmon Channel where the Owada and the Kyoei groups are battling for territorial rights and drug smuggling. The Owada sends their man, Tetsu, and his friend Shuji to kill the Kyoei boss. With the promise of fame and riches, Shuji takes the fall and goes to jail for 7 years. (AT)
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    New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 3: Boss\
    The eighth sequel of the series by the successful ?ukasaku and Bunta?collaboration revolves around the men of a lesser organization that are constantly bullied by the upper organization and leed in vain?in gang wars. A minor dispute between the Sakamoto family based in Osaka (the largest organization in Japan) and the Kawahara family of Amagasaki (subsidiary of the Genryu Group of Kyushu) turns into a conflict that leads to several deaths in both families. (AT)
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    The Dream of Delinquent Boys
    The juvenile delinquent, Yoshiie Hirouki (Ken'ichi Matsuyama) transferred to Kitahosi Institute, the one and only school which is admit dropping out student entire country. In here, he not only met friends who lived on as same environment as he was in the past, but also the adults including the teacher, Atachi, who give him kind attention with sincerity. Because of them, this true outsider of society's mind start to changed and decided to have dream that he want to be a teacher like Atachi.
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    Family 2
    Family 2 (2001) - Direct-to-Video
    In this continuation of "Family", it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the Japan Mafia: Mr. Nishiwaki. Hideshi finds something odd about the killing and begins to investigate, uncovering the true motives behind this murder. Miike's sequal is chock full of harrowing Boat chases, big explosions, beautiful women sex and drugs! (Amazon)
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    Mottomo kiken na yuugi
    (...) hitman Shohei Narumi (Yûsaku Matsuda) becomes embroiled in a vicious power struggle between two large corporations over a sizable government defence contract. Executives of the Tonichi Group are being ransomed and then killed and its chairman, Kohei Kohinata (Asao Uchida), asserts that it is a plot concocted by the Godai Conglomerate and its head, Seishiro Adachi (Bontarô Miake). Narumi is hired to save the kidnapped head of Tonichi Electrics, Nobutaka Nanjo (Masanori Irie). (makeminecriterion.wordpress.com)
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    Shokei yugi
    The Execution Game (1979) opens with Narumi's abduction, his torture, and his guns-ablazing escape from an abandoned warehouse, a lengthy, violent passage that proves to merely be a test by a mysterious group who wants Narumi to assassinate the hitman currently in their employ. (makeminecriterion.wordpress.com)
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    Ojôsan tantei Tokimeki renpatsu!
    A story about a female detective that sacrifices her baby in order to solve the case. (ADC)
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    Crime Hunter
    The very first V-Cinema production; a stripped to the bone action film about a cop avenging his partner's (the very young Riki Takeuchi) death. (bulletsnbabesdvd.com)
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    Ginpei From Koina: Migratory Bird of Winter
    Shimoda, Izu, the venerable Amimoto Onabe family is repeatedly harassed by the upstart Hotate family, who targeted their fishing grounds. Ginpei, the head of the Onabe family, is in love with Oichi, the only daughter of Gohei, the adviser. Ginpei is told that he plans to have her marry Unokichi. Finally, the Onabe family and the Hotate family get into a fight, and Ginpei kills Tajiro, the hotate family’s proxy. Ginpei leaves Oichi in Unokichi’s care and sets off on a treacherous journey.
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    Another XX: Red Murderer
    Another XX ダブルエックス 赤い殺人者
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    Carlos
    Carlos (1991) - Direct-to-Video
    V-cinema classic about a wanted Brazilian Japanese gangster who flees to Tokyo and fights yakuza.
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    Mary\
    An assignment is issued to a lady sniper to destroy the mafia.
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    The Blind Cat
    The first film about Kiriko - a blind woman with a sword.
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