Filmography from Takeshige Hatanaka

Actor :

Inugami no tatari, Shun'ya Itô, 1977
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Chokugeki! Jigoku ken, Teruo Ishii, 1974
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film....

Bôryoku gai, Hideo Gosha, 1974
A first cursory look at VIOLENT STREETS makes it seem that Hideo Gosha reverted back to the programme genre pictures out of which emerged as a bonafide auteur and stylistic visionary five years earlier with bold ambitious jidaigekis like GOYOKIN and HITOKIRI, this time treading ground he never did before in his career, the yakuza picture. Looking closer it becomes obvious that VIOLENT STREETS is both. A genre picture and a stylistic exercise....