Kenrô Matsuura

Kenrô Matsuura

Birth : 1920-09-29, Saitama Prefecture, Japan

Death : 1987-05-07

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Kenrô Matsuura

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The Bored Samurai
Screenplay
Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead with flashy clothes and a handsome face, and is proficient in all the military arts and called Bored Hatamoto. Mikijiro Hira acts as such a hero in history. Mondonosuke is secretly ordered to look into the suspicious movement in Nagoya castle by the Ometsuke, and he found out about the misconduct and sole it. This is a period movie about the hero!
Informal Dress
Screenplay
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor
Screenplay
Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, a small army of samurai, farmers and peasants, band together to do battle against the tide of history. Their leader, Isami Kondo is a man who rises from farmer to fighter to head the fierce Shinsengumi brigade. Using a stern hand and a heart of gold, he rallies his men in defense of the tottering Shogunate. But bloodshed and treachery lurk around every corner.
The Woman Gambler
Screenplay
Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Gambler
Original Story
Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Kojiro
Screenplay
Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tatsuya Nakadai). Oscar winning Hiroshi Inagaki directs this epic motion picture based on Genzo Murakami’s fascinating story. Despite his humble birth, the orphan Sasaki Kojiro (Onoe Kikunosuke) is determined to become the foremost swordsman in all Japan, a title that traditionally belongs to a nobleman. At fencing school, young Kojiro receives the contempt of his classmates because of his superior swordsmanship. When rumors of the upcoming civil war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans spread, Kojiro leaves the school and sets out, seizing every opportunity to realize his dream.
Blood Shed
Screenplay
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
Blood Shed
Original Story
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
The Stars and I Decided...
Screenplay
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
The Stars and I Decided...
Original Story
The brother of an up-and-coming kendoka is mysteriously murdered while working on a new model of motorboat.
A Charming Devil
Original Story
Movie adaptation of the TV series.
A Charming Devil
Screenplay
Movie adaptation of the TV series.
The Call of Blood
Story
Two brothers seek revenge on the yakuza responsible for the death of their father.
Spirit of Youth
Original Story
Japanese youth film.
Orders from Hell
Original Story
Orders from Hell
Screenplay
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Screenplay
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
Original Story
A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era.
Order of Yakuza
Screenplay
Order of Yakuza
The Sentencer
Screenplay
A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.
The Sentencer
Original Story
A man challenges a territorial fight between gangs.
Rascals! Go to Hell
Screenplay
A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.
Rascals! Go to Hell
Original Story
A boss of underworld helps the police crush an evil gang.
The Plateau Man
Screenplay
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
The Plateau Man
Original Story
Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.
The Man with a Shotgun
Writer
Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of trouble surrounding the town's mill.
北上川悲歌
Original Story
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song by Tsuzuko Sugawara.
Magistrate of Dice
Screenplay
Magistrate Kinshiro fights with a group of villains plotting the assassination of the Shogun in Edo.
Living by Karate
Screenplay
Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.
Kojiro's Turning Swallow Cut
Screenplay
The story of Sasaki Kojiro, a young swordsman, and his quest to train under master Seigen and develop his own style.
A Killer Without a Grave
Screenplay
Nakata (Keiichiro Akagi) is a nihilistic young buck who is willing to do anything to get money in his pockets. As he knocks back a couple drinks that he knows he won't be able to afford, a former marksman-turned-bad, Ishioka approaches him. Ishioka is looking for an unaffiliated hit-man who is willing to handle some business. Nakata is just the right man for the job.
Hell's Juggler
Screenplay
Tales of a Gunman: The Man Without Tomorrow
Writer
The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says that he is the younger brother of Colt Jo's killer. When Ryuji escaped difficulties with one blow knocking out the enemy's weapon, Sabu reveals that Colt Jo is in the hospital in Gifu. Ryuji decides to visit his old enemy. However, he does not know that this is a trap.
The Gun Like Lightning
Screenplay
Sadao, is saved from death at the hands of Goro, a killer belonging to a rival gang by Joji just released from prison who has resolved to turn over a new leaf. He has returned, however, because of Keiko, his sweetheart, who he now finds is engaged to Noboru, a detective and son of Jinsaku, boss of the Otsu gang. That night at the night club, headquarters of the Highlight Group - which Noboru is investigating, Majima meets Joji who knows of his attempt to kill Jinsaku, and resolves to kill him.
The Second Bullet is Marked
Screenplay
Tsunokichi and Ken face off against a rival yakuza in Kyushu.
The Guitarist and the Rancher
Screenplay
Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from turning an honest ranch into a gambling resort.
Hell's Companion
Screenplay
Hell's Companion
Original Story
Men in a Rough Town
Screenplay
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Men in a Rough Town
Original Story
An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.
Love Letter
Original Story
A nightclub manager is in love with his pianist. However, she has a ranger boyfriend who's been permanently stationed in the mountain wilderness. Their only communication is by letter. As time passes the correspondence slows to a trickle. Then nothing. The manager persuades the girl to visit the boy. She does, but she's totally unprepared for her bizarre discovery.
Kodokan Under a Morning Moon
Screenplay
The picture tells of a tremendous conflict between ju-jitsu, an aggressive art practiced by vicious hoodlums led by Takamatsu, and judo, which is used only for self-defense and championed by Sugawara. All of which, comes to a mighty match between Sugawara and Takamatsu. It's loaded with dynamite, so to speak, and lasts five minutes on the screen, Sugawara, wins. Takamatsu, a poor loser, and his four ju-jitsu hoodlum companions later ambush Sugawara in the woods. This turns out to be a mortal combat. You'd like to learn the outcome, wouldn't you?
Cantankerous Edo
Screenplay
It's fighting fires and swordsmen with a touch of music in this free-for-all of action and excitement combining the talents of Japan's most popular couple... Misora Hibari and Okawa Hashizo. Along with the great Otomo Rytaro as Tatsugoro the fire chief, they keep Edo safe as part of the famed Megumi Fire Squad.
Meigetsu sataro gasa
Screenplay
Japanese film.
Escape Zone
Screenplay
Shiro Yabe, a young gangster who boarded the second class on the Tokaido Line after finishing a dangerous smuggling transaction in Kobe, is next to a beautiful woman with a sad face.
Koibito-tachi no iru machi
Screenplay
Mr. Baku, a sandwich man, was familiar to his neighbors because he was a natural friend of Ryotaro Yanaka. Yoshie, the sign girl of the coffee shop, is the lover of Douta Kuraishi, the manager of Cabaret Orion.
Hawai no yoru
Screenstory
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Screenplay
Jirocho the gambler hits the road.
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Screenplay
The rise of the famed gambler.
続佐々木小次郎
Screenplay
1951 Japanese movie
Nightshade Flower
Screenplay
Japanese "kayo" film based on the song "Ieraishan" by Yoshiko Yamaguchi.
Sasaki Kojiro
Writer
Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as Sasaki Kojiro, who rises from humble beginnings to national fame, and a young Toshiro Mifune appears as the legendary master swordsman Miyamoto Musashi for the first time and essentially sets the standard for future portrayals.This masterpiece is based on the original story as written by noted author Murakami Genzo and is far superior to any other versions. Following Kojiro from his earliest days through his fateful meeting with Musashi, this movie is filled with exciting and dramatic moments culminating in the best version of the final duel ever seen on film.
Devil's Gold
Writer
1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi