Tetsuya Watari

Tetsu has joined his yakuza boss in going straight, but when a rival gang threatens to bring them back into the gang wars...

A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely on Chieko, a young Tokyo courtesan who gives him shelter. He's banished to Osaka, where he picks up a drug habit. Through it all, he keeps his friends and enemies off balance with unpredictable behavior - and he seems indestructible. (imdb)

A cop intervenes in warfare between Yakuza gangs. (bfi.org.uk)

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. (imdb)

Crime doesn't pay as can be seen in this Japanese crime drama. A streetwalker's son grows up in a Japanese ghetto and becomes a prominent member of the yakuza, but eventually he tires of corruption and violence. He decides to reform and return to his family, but by the story's end discovers that good intentions are no substitute for final justice. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi (fandango.com)

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference. (imdb)

This sequel to "Gokiburi deka" shows further dealings with criminals by a "Cockroach" detective.

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

Kin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan... (themoviedb)

Takanosuke Ushio and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other that they would build a retreat in Shiguretei, but Ushio was hospitalized after a stroke a few days later, and when his wife, Takako, rushed to the hospital, she discovered their love affair, which in reality had not gone beyond kissing... (imdb)

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money. (imdb)

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem, owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

To fulfill a prison mate's dying wish, and to right what is wrong, Goro will kill again. Tetsuya Watari meets his archenemy Shuusuke Shirayama, a rival gangster who also wants to part with the yakuza ways. (imdb)

A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro (Tetsuya Watari) is in the middle of action. (imdb)

Although Goro is a known assassin, he has always been against the ways of the yakuza. In "Outlaw Kill!" he deals with the dilemma of living such a lifestyle more than ever: the sacrifices, the time wasted in prison. (imdb)

One morning, Kazue (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is about to knocked over by a motorbike in front of the music instrument shop where she works and breaks all the records she is carrying. The driver of the motorbike, Yukio, works at a printing company. Two immediately become close after the accident and they start meeting each other each day...

Yuji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance.

Tai Kato’s early 20th century set yakuza epic about an ordinary merchant girl (Hiroko Maki) who crosses paths with an assassin (Tetsuya Watari). The encounter sends her to jail as a suspected accomplice. Years later she marries a yakuza boss, whose gang is affiliated with working class people. And who should reappear... (Letterbox'd and me)

The film focuses on the romantic life of Tetsu, the drifter, and the girls he loves but can never quite bring himself to settle down with. Our story is set in a picturesque harbor town to make matters even more atmospheric. Yoshida is Tetsu's double-crossing rival who pays in the end with his life.