KÅjirÅ HongÅ was a Japanese actor best known for his work with Daiei Studios in the 1960s. HongÅ won an Elan d’or Award for Newcomer of the Year in 1959.
KÅjirÅ HongÅ Biography / Wiki
| Name | KÅjirÅ HongÅ |
| Also Know | 本郷功次郎, Kojiro Hongo, Кодзиро Хонго |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Okayama, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1938-02-15 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 74 |
| Deathday | 2013-02-14 |
KÅjirÅ HongÅ Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Gamera vs. Barugon | Keisuke Hirata | 1966-04-17 | Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discove… |
| Gamera vs. Viras | Scout Master Mr. Shimida | 1968-03-20 | As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien’s spac… |
| Return of Daimajin | Lord Juro | 1966-08-13 | The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Miko… |
| Gamera vs. Gyaos | Foreman Shiro Tsutsumi | 1967-03-15 | Unusual volcanic activity in Japan awakens Gyaos, a bloodthirsty flying monster with the power to slice things in half with an ultrasonic ray. While s… |
| Yokai Monsters: Along with Ghosts | Hyakasuro | 1969-03-12 | In feudal Japan, gangsters chase a young girl who might testify against their boss. When the gangsters murder the girl’s grandfather on sacred ground… |
| Dare yori mo kimi o aisu | 1960-09-20 | Japanese “kayo” film centered around the song “Dare yori mo kimi wo aisu” by Kazuko Matsuo…. | |
| Haunted Castle | Komori Hanzaemon | 1969-12-20 | This period thriller concerns a very famous cat known as the “monster cat of Nabeshima”. This cat, a symbol of vengeance in human disguise, takes reve… |
| Sentimental Mobsters | Ginnosuke Nakamura | 1963-07-27 | A young man who followed his father’s wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during the… |
| The Whale God | Shaki | 1962-07-15 | A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it…. |
| Zero-Fighters | 1965-09-04 | … | |
| 五人ã®çªæ’ƒéšŠ | 1961-04-26 | … | |
| Satan’s Sword | Hyoma Utsugi | 1960-10-18 | The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last peri… |
| Satan’s Sword: The Dragon God | Uzuki Hyoma | 1960-12-27 | The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded…. |
| The Falcon Fighters | 2nd Lt. Ando | 1969-11-01 | In the prewar days leading up to the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1937, head flight instructor Lt. KatÅ Tateo of the Imperial Japanese Army-Air Corps … |
| Operation Underworld | 1963-10-19 | A detective investigates a criminal organization’s involvement in real estate…. | |
| Lefty Fencer | 1969-06-14 | As a child, Okin the one-armed one-eyed swordswoman was disfigured by Lord Daizen-dayu, who was after her family’s most treasured possession, the fame… | |
| Broken Swords | Yasubei Nakayama | 1969-05-30 | The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the v… |
| The Two Musashis | 1960-01-03 | During the reign of Shogun Hidetada, both Hirate Musashi and Okamoto Musashi strive to become the finest swordsman in the land by defeating the Yagyu … | |
| The Bride from Hades | Hagiwara Shinzaburou | 1968-06-15 | On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she’s a ghost, he becomes infatuat… |
| Okoto and Sasuke | Sasuke | 1961-01-01 | One of Kinugasa’s last films–based on the story by Tanizaki Jun’ichirÅ…. |
| Princess Sen in Edo | Kihachirô Tahara | 1960-01-14 | A gorgeous tragic love picture scroll depicting a beautiful woman who weeps over her strange fate and falters in her search for true love!… |
| The Lord and the Gambler | Chonosuke | 1959-08-01 | Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brothe… |
| 仲良ã—音é ・日本一ã よ | 1962-05-12 | … | |
| The Princess Says No | 1959-12-08 | … | |
| 風æ¥ç‰©èªž ã‚ã°ã‚Œé£›è»Š | 1960-09-28 | … | |
| 風æ¥ç‰©èªžä»»ä¾ 篇 | 1959-10-28 | … | |
| Buddha | Siddhartha | 1961-10-31 | An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (C… |
| The Magoichi Saga | Priest Shin-so | 1969-09-13 | Lord Oda Nobunaga gains control of nearly all of Japan and tries to enlist the aid of Magoichi and his 3.000 gunners…. |
| Etajima, the Naval Academy | 1959-09-06 | The former Japanese Naval Academy was at Etajima, one of the many islands of the beautiful Inland Sea. Among the new cadets were Ishikawa and Murase. … | |
| The Woman Gambler | 1967-07-14 | Second film in the long-running series Daiei Studio’s Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin…. | |
| Mission: Iron Castle | 1970-02-07 | The Shinobi-no-Mono series was so successful that Daiei Studios dipped into the well one more time, making the best 60′s B&W ninja movie ever se… | |
| The Woman Gambler’s Iron Rule | 1971-02-17 | The woman gambler Ginko risks her life for her brother-in-law…. | |
| Gateway to Glory | 1969-07-12 | A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy…. | |
| Satan’s Sword III: The Final Chapter | 1961-05-17 | Disguised as a beggar monk, Ryunosuke is harassed along the road by the rowdy members of a country dojo or fencing school malingering outside their fe… | |
| Jirocho – The Chivalrous | 1960-06-01 | The exciting story of Jirocho and his yakuza gang that controlled the area of the Tokaido during the latter days of the samurai era. Awesome fighting… | |
| Tokyo Mafia 2: Wrath of the Yakuza | Yamadaira | 1996-04-05 | Yabuki’s old friend returns as a deadly enemy. Blood brothers are driven to bitter hatred as betrayal rips mafia loyalties apart! Only the strong will… |
| The Demon of Mount Oe | Sakata-no-Kintoki | 1960-04-27 | A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and … |
| The Two Bodyguard | Seki no yatappe | 1968-08-24 | Film directed by Kenji Misumi… |
| Music of Remembrance -Gb- | Kakizaki | 2002-06-22 | A boy who suffers from impaired hearing and a young girl pianist try to solve the mysterious connection between a series of murders and the boy’s enta… |
| Order of Yakuza | 1962-12-26 | Order of Yakuza… | |
| Tsugaru Folksong | 1973-12-20 | A young girl is being asked about a man with whom she was keeping company, as her grandmother plays a lament on a shamisen. Then the focus changes to … | |
| Embalming | 1999-07-30 | Young female embalmer Miyako is called in to restore the body of a young man who has committed suicide, before the funeral. While performing the embal… | |
| Tokyo Mafia: Yakuza Wars | Yamadaira | 1995-07-23 | After being excommunicated from the yakuza, Ginya Yabuki returns from the shadows as leader of his own crime syndicate known as the Tokyo Mafia…. |
| The King of Minami 3 | 1993-04-23 | … | |
| Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 3 | 1994-04-28 | Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara), who was thinking about the next money plan for the 200 million yen he got from the painting trick, looks at high-rate poker … | |
| The Great Wall | Li Hei | 1962-11-01 | In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin’s great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted au… |
| The Ginza Three Boys | Shûzô Takarai | 1961-01-03 | The story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met… |
| Teinen Taishoku | 1963-03-01 | … | |
| GarÅden | 1995-01-25 | Based on the Baku Yumemakura martial arts serials… | |
| Gamera: Guardian of the Universe | Captain of the Nojima | 1995-03-11 | A ship runs aground on a mysterious atoll leading to an investigation by insurance representative Kusanagi, who discovers an ancient bead that he give… |
| Last Run: 100 Million Yen Worth of Love and Betrayal | 1991-12-30 | A former Formula 2 racing champion is asked to assist in setting up an auction of vintage cars. He becomes aware of a billionaire’s plot to rig the au… | |
| The Gambling Samurai | 1964-11-14 | … | |
| Karate for Life | 1977-05-14 | The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a … | |
| Jirocho Fuji | 1959-06-03 | Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a ‘Fire Festival’ in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa…. | |
| The Hidden Festival | 1998-05-30 | Taku Shinjo spins this rural drama about ancient taboos and encroaching modernity. Takamine (Gitan Otsuru) is a big-city workaholic sent to a small re… | |
| Family 2 | 2001-09-21 | In this continuation of “Family”, it is discovered that the one who gave the order to assassinate the Mitsumikai Boss is the one and only Boss of the … | |
| Family | 2001-03-10 | When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi’s brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to… | |
| Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case | 1991-09-27 | A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhi… | |
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