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Karate Warriors
Karate Warriors ( ja, 子連れ殺人拳, ) is a 1976 Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba. Plot Chico arrives in a city where there are two warring gangs. Chico gets wind of a large hidden stash of heroin owned by the, now dead, former leader over all of the gangs and sets off to find it and keep the two gangs at war. Meanwhile, he has befriended a small boy whose father is a samurai assassin working for the rival gang. Cast *Sonny Chiba *Isao Natsuyagi * Akiko Koyama * Akane Kawasaki *Hideo Murota * Eiji Gô * Bin Amatsu *Nenji Kobayashi *Yayoi Watanabe *Tatsuo Umemiya Release On November 20, 2007, BCI Eclipse released the film in their ''Sonny Chiba Collection'' DVD set, which also includes '' Golgo 13: Assignment Kowloon'', ''The Bullet Train'', '' Dragon Princess'', ''Karate Kiba'', and ''Sister Street Fighter is a spin-off of '' The Street Fighter'' (1974). The plot revolves around Lǐ Hóng-Lóng (李紅竜 ''Li Kōryū''), the female martial artist of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
is a Japanese film director. Career Born in Nagano Prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Waseda University and began working at the Tōei studios in Kyoto. He directed a number of action movie series in the 1970s and has also helmed many TV movies. Filmography * '' Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams'' (1970) * '' Wandering Ginza Butterfly'' (1972) * '' Gincho Nagaremono: Mesuneko Bakuchi'' (1972) * ''Sister Street Fighter'' (1974) * '' Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread'' (1974) * '' A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse'' (1975) * '' The Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' (1975) * ''Champion of Death'' (1975) * ''Karate Bearfighter'' (1975) * (1975) * ''G-Men '75 was a long-running prime-time popular television detective series in Japan. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:54 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) network from May 24, 1975 to April 3, 1982. A sequel, ''G-Men ' ...'' (1975-82) television series * '' Circuit no Ōk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yayoi Watanabe
is a Japanese actress. She appeared in many Toei films including Pinky violence films. In 1979, she married sumo wrestler Kurama and retired. Selected filmography Film *'' Shin Harenchi Gakuen'' (1971) *''Wandering Ginza Butterfly'' (1972) *'' Female Prisoner 701: Scorpion'' (1972) *'' Female Prisoner Scorpion: 701's Grudge Song'' (1973) *''Karate Kiba'' (1973) *''School of the Holy Beast'' (1974) *''Cross the Rubicon!'' (1975) *'' Violent Panic: The Big Crash'' (1976) *''Karate Warriors'' (1976) *''Okinawa Jūnen Sensou'' (1978) Television *''playgirl'' (1972) *''Unmeitōge'' (1974) as Sasaka *''G-Men '75'' (1975–79) Guest (ep.13,19,63,71,166,199) *''Space Ironman Kyodain'' (1976) *''Monkey Monkey is a common name that may refer to most mammals of the infraorder Simiiformes, also known as the simians. Traditionally, all animals in the group now known as simians are counted as monkeys except the apes, which constitutes an incomple ...'' (1979) Guest (ep,26) *'' Hattori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Action Films
Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Philadelphia Flyers–Red Army game results in a 4–1 victory for the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers over HC CSKA Moscow of the Soviet Union. * January 16 – The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction (the West German extreme-left militant Baader–Meinhof Group) begins in Stuttgart. * January 18 ** Full diplomatic relations are established between Bangladesh and Pakistan 5 years after the Bangladesh Liberation War. ** The Scottish Labour Party (1976), Scottish Labour Party is formed as a breakaway from the UK-wide party. ** Super Bowl X in American football: The Pittsburgh Steelers defeat the Dallas Cowboys, 21–17, in Miami. * January 21 – First commercial Concorde flight, from London to Bahrain. * January 27 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karate Films
(; ; Okinawan pronunciation: ) is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom. It developed from the indigenous Ryukyuan martial arts (called , "hand"; ''tii'' in Okinawan) under the influence of Chinese martial arts, particularly Fujian White Crane. Karate is now predominantly a striking art using punching, kicking, knee strikes, elbow strikes and open-hand techniques such as knife-hands, spear-hands and palm-heel strikes. Historically, and in some modern styles, grappling, throws, joint locks, restraints and vital-point strikes are also taught. A karate practitioner is called a . The Empire of Japan annexed the Ryukyu Kingdom in 1879. Karate came to mainland Japan in the early 20th century during a time of migration as Ryukyuans, especially from Okinawa, looked for work in the main islands of Japan. It was systematically taught in Japan after the Taishō era of 1912–1926. In 1922, the Japanese Ministry of Education invited Gichin Funakoshi to Tokyo to give a karate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Films
The year 1976 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1976 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *January – Paramount Pictures sets up a separate motion picture division and names David V. Picker as president. *March 22 – Filming begins on George Lucas' ''Star Wars'' science fiction film. In one of the most lucrative business decisions in film history, Lucas declines his directing fee of $500,000 in exchange for complete ownership of merchandising and sequel rights. *April 1 – ''The Rocky Horror Picture Show'' is officially re-released as a midnight movie at the Waverly Theater (Now the IFC Center) in Greenwich Village in New York City, starting through the run and still being shown in there all around the world. *April 9 – Alfred Hitchcock's last film, '' Family Plot'', is released. *August 11 – John Wayne appears in his final film, ''The Shootist''. *August 26 – Alan Ladd Jr. i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sister Street Fighter
is a spin-off of ''The Street Fighter'' (1974). The plot revolves around Lǐ Hóng-Lóng (李紅竜 ''Li Kōryū''), the female martial artist of the title. When her brother Lǐ Wàn-Qīng is kidnapped by drug lords, she seeks revenge. The drug lord's colorful collection of "killers" includes a toga-clad group of Thai Boxers called the "Amazons Seven", along with representatives of almost every martial art. Hóng-Lóng breaks into the drug lord's compound with the help of Seiichi Hibiki (Sonny Chiba) and other members of the Shorinji Kempo dojo. After all of his minions are defeated, the drug lord himself battles Hóng-Lóng, wearing a steel claw in imitation of Han, the villain from ''Enter the Dragon'' (1973). This was the first in a trilogy of films. It was followed by '' Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread'' (1974) and ''The Return of the Sister Street Fighter'' (1975), each with Shihomi as star. Plot When Lee Long (Hiroshi Miyauchi), a shorinji kempo champion and Hong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karate Kiba
is a 1973 Japanese martial arts film starring Sonny Chiba. It is based on an action manga by Ikki Kajiwara. A recut version was released in the United States in 1976 as ''The Bodyguard'', with added footage in the first ten minutes of the film. ''Bodyguard Kiba'' was followed by the sequel '' Bodigaado Kiba: Hissatsu sankaku tobi'', released later that same year. There were then three more film adaptations with Takeshi Yamato in the role of Kiba released in 1993, 1994, and 1995 by Takashi Miike at the beginning of his career. Plot summary " Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dragon Princess
''Dragon Princess'' is a 1975 karate film directed by Yutaka Kohira. Plot The film opens with Isshin Higaki (Sonny Chiba) and his daughter Yumi Higaki (Etsuko Shihomi) being attacked by a rival karate master, Hironobu Nikaido ( Bin Amatsu) who wants Isshin's job as top karate master. Nikaido teams up with four other masters and they manage to disable one of Isshin's arms and wound his eye with a kunai knife. Alive but crippled Isshin and Yumi retreat to New York where he trains his daughter to avenge him and the death of a friend. After her father's death, Yumi returns to Tokyo to take her revenge. She enters a karate tournament funded by a corrupt business man, but Nikaido, seeking to assure his student's supremacy in the coming fight, sends his four top fighters to wipe out the rest of the competition. Eventually, Yumi, with the help of another karate student, Masahiko Okizaki (Yasuaki Kurata) kills Nikaido and his minions. Her arm is permanently disabled, keeping her from c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bullet Train
(also known as ''Super Express 109'') is a 1975 Japanese action thriller film directed by Junya Satō and starring Ken Takakura, Sonny Chiba, and Ken Utsui. When a Shinkansen ("bullet train") is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if it slows below 80 km/h unless a ransom is paid, police race to find the bombers and to learn how to defuse the bomb. Plot Tetsuo Okita is a former businessman who lost his manufacturing company to bankruptcy and separated from his wife and son a year earlier. Desperate to make ends meet and start over, he collaborates with activist Masaru Koga and his former employee Hiroshi Ōshiro in an elaborate plot to extort money from the government. ''Hikari 109'' is a high-speed 0 series bullet train carrying 1,500 passengers from Tokyo to Hakata. Shortly after the train's departure, railway security head Miyashita is notified by Okita that a bomb has been planted aboard and will explode if the train slows down below 80 km/h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assignment Kowloon
is a 1977 Japanese-language action thriller film starring Sonny Chiba as the international assassin Golgo 13. It is the second live-action movie based on the manga series ''Golgo 13'', after the eponymous 1973 JapaneseIranian film starring Ken Takakura. Plot Master assassin Duke Togo—codenamed "Golgo 13"—is hired by an American crime syndicate to kill Chou Lei Fang, a powerful member of the syndicate's Hong Kong branch who has been selling their drugs through his own channels. At the same time, he has to keep an eye out on Smith, a hard-boiled Hong Kong detective who is hell-bent on taking down Chou and his drug-manufacturing organization. One night, an undercover officer named Lin Li follows Chou and infiltrates his drug factory, but she is shot and captured by his henchmen. The next day, Smith locates Chou's factory after a group of children find Lin Li's communicator, but Lin Li is killed during a shootout and the factory is destroyed. By this time, both Chou and Smith ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatsuo Umemiya
was a Japanese actor, ''tarento'', and businessman. He was represented by the agency Pickles. His daughter is model and ''tarento'' Anna Umemiya. The son of a doctor, Umemiya gave up a medical career to debut as a Toei New Face at the Toei Studios. As an actor, he appeared in films and television dramas and also in restaurant variety shows. Umemiya died of kidney failure Kidney failure, also known as end-stage kidney disease, is a medical condition in which the kidneys can no longer adequately filter waste products from the blood, functioning at less than 15% of normal levels. Kidney failure is classified as eit ... on 12 December 2019. He was 81 years old. Filmography TV series Anime Variety Advertisements Discography Singles Albums References External links * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Umemiya, Tatsuo 1938 births 2019 deaths Japanese entertainers Japanese businesspeople Japanese chefs Male actors from Harbin 20th-century Japanese male actors 21st-centu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
