Japanese Godfather: Ambition

Japanese Godfather: AmbitionCast and Crew

Movie

Cast

S
Shin Saburi
as Kazumasa Sakura
T
Toshirō Mifune
as Kosuke Oishi
H
Hiroki Matsukata
as Shiro Matsugae
B
Bunta Sugawara
as Shinsuke Tembo
K
Kyôko Kishida
as Naoko Anekoji
E
Etsushi Takahashi
as Yasuo Ichinomiya
A
Akiyuki Nosaka
K
Kyoko Nami
as Yukiko Kawamoto
T
Takuya Fujioka
as Genkichi Tarui
E
Eitarō Ozawa
as Daizo Okayama
K
Kanjūrō Arashi
as Yanosuke Kawamoto
S
Seizō Fukumoto
as Nobuo Kobayashi
H
Hiromi Maya
as Anna Motoyama
S
Sayoko Ninomiya
as Toshiko Ichinomiya
N
Nobuo Kaneko
as Hirano
A
Asao Koike
as Akimasa Onizawa
M
Midori Kanazawa
as Kaoru Miura
K
Kei Satō
as Sekino
M
Mikio Narita
as Seiji Kataoka
F
Fumio Watanabe
as Keizo Tashiro
E
Emiko Azuma
as Yukie Sakura
H
Hōsei Komatsu
as Shigemitsu Sanada
M
Masaru Shiga
as Saburo Murakami
A
Asao Uchida
as Kikuo Oyama
K
Kuniyasu Atsumi
as Rentaro Setoyama
T
Tomio Fujimura
as Hisataro Dan
T
Torahiko Hamada
as Goto
M
Masato Hoshi
as Kazunori Shibata
M
Masataka Iwao
as Giichi Arahama
S
Shūichirō Moriyama
as Narrator
K
Kinji Nakamura
as Okuda
R
Ryō Nishida
as Ichiro Funase
A
Akira Nishikino
as Yoichiro Wakamiya
T
Takashi Noguchi
as Kazuo Miyanoura
H
Hiromi Okamoto
as Toshiko Maeda
M
Maki Orihara
as Makiko Sakura
A
Akira Morita
as Hideki Yokokawa
J
Joshua Romeo
as Al Sanders
Y
Yōko Koizumi
as Natsuko Miho
S
Sengoro Shigeyama
as Jintoku Ryu
Y
Yasuhiro Suzuki
as Yoshio Shirakawa
M
Maki Tachibana
as Akiko Minowa
Y
Yoshifumi Tajima
as Masatoshi Kojima
O
Osman Yusuf
D
Daisuke Awaji
Ömer Yusuf
as Suber Ananta (uncredited)

Crew

S
Sadao Nakajima
Director
K
Koichi Iiboshi
Novel
K
Kōji Takada
Screenplay

Japanese Godfather Trilogy

Nihon No Don (日本の首領, approximately translating as The Japanese Godfather or The Japanese Don) is a Japanese trilogy of organized crime films released from 1977 to 1978. Very loosely based on the real-life exploits of Japan's biggest yakuza gangs, the series was adapted from a novel by journalist Kazuo Kasahara and was produced by Toei, who earlier rewrote the rules of the yakuza genre with Kinji Fukasaku's Battles Without Honor and Humanity.