Masatoshi Kawase
Known For & Full Filmography13 Titles
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's sister, Rie, to a wheelchair. They want Togawa to hijack an armored truck loaded with 120 million yen; their leverage is to promise him money for surgery for Rie. Togawa consents and plans the heist with three others. The plan is solid, but it doesn't go smoothly. Togawa must improvise, there are traitors somewhere, and double-crosses mount. Can Togawa escape with enough money to help his sister and ensure a passage out of Japan?
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Prison Official
Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Ryuji Oshima, a gambler, kills Saiga in self-defense, and considering himself unfit to lead men, secludes himself in a temple to atone for his misdeeds. At home, when his mother, the boss of a construction gang, bids for and gets the job of building the Town Hall, other gangs set out to disrupt her business and try to kill her.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1962 Japanese movie
Movie - 1965, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away...
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping with—to get a scoop. But what happens when an even more ruthless female gang boss kidnaps his sister?
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Based on the original work of Yasunori Kawauchi of "Moonlight Mask", this is the fifth in the "Ginza Whirlwind Child (Mitsutogai)" series in which Asahi Kobayashi dressed as a hero of the dead ghost. Familiar Takuya Nikaido challenges the international call girl organization.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Strife between competing lumber mills.
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1962 Japanese movie