Daizo Kitamura

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

A shikakenin was an under-the-cover trade that undertook killing in Edo. Hanemon of Otowa, an agency that introduced laborers and maids, was also one of these. Katsugoro Iseya was a timber dealer who had come in as a client. His target was the constructions magistrate Hanno, and the Tatsumiya who sipped on the benefits. Hanemon who had a stong code towards killing, where he would only kill those who do no good to be in the world, accepts this request. Baian Fujieda, a needle doctor would carry out the killing. However, the professional killer Baian fails to bring down Tatsumiya. Hanemon then looks to another shikakenin, the ronin Sanai Nishimura for the role. Although Sanai's ability with the sword is good, he lives poorly in a tenement, and accepts this commission on the condition that it is kept a secret from his wife and child. Here, they close in on Hanno and Tatsumiya again...

Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Oryo, a dice-shaker at a gambling den with a full-back tattoo, was arrested during a police raid. Three years later, on the day of her release, the Okajima gang leader, Hyoe, who had promised to welcome her, was nowhere to be seen. She was shocked to learn from a woman named Yuki that the gang leader was dead, and that he had taught her the pleasures of bondage. Yuki was engaged to Masamichi, Hyoe's son who had succeeded him as the second-generation leader.

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

Yoshiro Yazaki (Toshihiko Sakakibara), who is loved by Misato (Chikako Aoyama), the daughter of Iwami (Akira Nakao), a director of the Kanto Ichienkai, was forced into a difficult position between the Sumida River Association and Iwami. Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Riki Takeuchi), acting leader of the sand group, is approached by Iwami and is ordered to push Iwami in the next presidential election. However, Iwami is demoted by the presidential election due to the strategy of Sunagawa, the parent of Hitoshi. The furious Iwami immediately awakened the Iwami group and declared a full-scale war to the Kanto Ichienkai.

Movie - 1985, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A woman who runs a prosperous oden shop by herself. A report writer who is a regular there senses something is wrong with her, and becomes interested in the landlady, so he decides to interview her. Then, it turns out that the husband of the landlady, who was an employee of a top-class trading company, was murdered by a certain man. Moreover, the man is the older brother of the tigress-like woman who lives with him, and it seems that he will be released on parole soon. Using this information as bait, the report writer forcibly presses the landlady into having a relationship with her, but... A work depicting the negotiations between a woman who hides her past and a man who reveals it.

Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Kuroiwa

Beniya Shoji and Tokyo Medical Equipment were engaged in a fierce battle to sell medical equipment to a medical school. Saeki worked as a reporter. Saeki's sister Akiko was the wife of Eto, an elite salesman at Beniya. Eto killed the president of Tokyo Medical Equipment and jumped to his death, and Akiko was raped by a hitman named Nozawa. But was Eto really the murderer? Saeki, who found out that Tokyo Medical Equipment was blackmailing Beniya for bribing the medical school, decided to solve the dark mystery...