A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Osaka Prefecture, Japan
Born:
June 2, 1924
Died:
March 2, 1996
Novel:
1977 Japanese Godfather: Ambition
2002 Yakuza Wolves: The Yanagawa Gang
Original Story:
1973 Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1974 Code of Wolves
1974 The Tattooed Hitman
1977 Japan's Don
1977 Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1981 Zoom Up: Sexual Crime Report
1999 New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
2000 Another Battle
2000 New Gokudo: Legend Three Dragons 2
2002 Yakuza Wolves: The Yanagawa Gang
Story:
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973 Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974 Code of Wolves
1974 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974 The Tattooed Hitman
1977 Japan's Don
1977 Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1978 Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1979 Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1980 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1981 Flames of Blood
1981 Zoom Up: Sexual Crime Report
1999 New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
2000 Another Battle
2000 New Gokudo: Legend Three Dragons 2
2002 Yakuza Wolves: The Yanagawa Gang
Writer:
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Deadly Fight in Hiroshima
1973 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973 Dangerous Trade in Kobe
1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Final Episode
1974 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics
1974 Code of Wolves
1974 New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1
1974 The Tattooed Hitman
1977 Japan's Don
1977 Japanese Godfather: Ambition
1978 Japanese Godfather: Conclusion
1979 Aftermath of Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1980 Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1981 Flames of Blood
1981 Zoom Up: Sexual Crime Report
1999 New Gokudo Legend: Three Dragons
2000 Another Battle
2000 New Gokudo: Legend Three Dragons 2
2002 Yakuza Wolves: The Yanagawa Gang
2003 Another Battle/Conspiracy
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.