Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

173

Gender

Male

Birthday

1938-07-21

Deathday

2018-02-10 (79 years old)

Place of Birth

Zushi, Kanagawa, Japan

Also Known As

Tamio Kawaji
Тамио Кавати

Tamio Kawachi

Biography

Tamio Kawachi was a Japanese actor who appeared in over 120 feature films. He is best known for his collaborations with directors Koreyoshi Kurahara and Seijun Suzuki, starring in Kurahara's The Warped Ones (1960) and Black Sun (1964), and having a prominent role in Suzuki's Tokyo Drifter (1966).

Known For

6.8%

Gozu

Jul 11, 2003

7.1%

Tokyo Drifter

Apr 10, 1966

7.4%

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Jan 13, 1973

6.9%

Youth of the Beast

Apr 21, 1963

5.7%

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster

Apr 22, 1967

6.6%

Story of a Prostitute

Feb 27, 1965

6.3%

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

Jan 27, 1963

6.9%

The Warped Ones

Sep 3, 1960

6.6%

Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey

Mar 8, 2000

6.5%

Cruel Gun Story

Feb 1, 1964

6.4%

Everything Goes Wrong

Oct 8, 1960

5.8%

Retaliation

Oct 5, 1968

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Acting

2017		Conquest 11
2017		Conquest 10

2011		The Lion Who Conquers Shura 2
2011		The Lion Who Conquers Shura

2009		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 10
2009		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 9

2008		修羅之魂～激動渡世編～
2008		修羅之魂～侠客立志編～
2008		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 8
2008		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 7
2008		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 6
2008		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 5
2008		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 4
2008		Road to New Don 2

2007		Yakuza Emblem: Chapter 3
2007		Yakuza Emblem Chapter 2
2007		Kegareta daimon: kanketsu-hen
2007		Yakuza no daimon
2007		The History of Yakuza Struggles in Kyushu - The Ogura War
2007		Kegareta daimon
2007		Road to New Don

2006		Cool Dimension: Innocent Assassin
2006		Yakuza Don
2006		Waru: The End

2005

Sakura no daimon: chi no hōshū

2004		Road to the Don 23
2004		修羅のみち9 北九州烈死篇

2003		Kanto Yakuza War: Chalice of Shura
2003		Ultraman Cosmos vs. Ultraman Justice: The Final Battle as Owada
2003		Gozu
2003		Hokkaido Yakuza War: Elegy of the North Sea

2002

Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution 2

2001		Gunball
2001		極道はクリスチャン　修羅の抗争
2001		Memories : Osaka Yakuza War Retribution
2001		Ultraman Tiga Gaiden: Revival of the Ancient Giant as Osa

2000		Fighting Knife Yoshi
2000		Ultraman Tiga: The Final Odyssey as Souichiro Sawai
2000		Shura ga Yuku 9

1998

East Side Waltz Garden of Earthly Delights

1997		Escape Captivity Looting Love
1997		Ultraman Dyna as Sawai So-Ichiro
1997		Remembering the Cosmos Flower

1996

KISS ME

1995

Sukiyaki as Ryohel Mihara

1993

Emperor of Upheaval

1992		The Setting Sun
1992		The Gambler as Honorable
1992		Gorotsuki
1992		Investigation of a Typical Love as Takimura
1992		Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Conqueror of Japan

1991

Heat Wave as Shinkichi, Hashiba

1990

Bad Guys Only

1987

The Forced Marriage with Children

1985		Break Town Story
1985		Kekkon Annai Mystery

1984

Chi-n-pi-ra as Otani

1983		Kazoku no sentaku as Yoichi Kanazawa
1983		Empress

1982

The Imperial Japanese Empire

1981

Pro Hunter

1980		Tokugawa no Onnatachi
1980		Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga as Seiichi Kanbara

1979

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Yonaki Numa

1977

Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu as Kenji Igarashi

1976		A Kawachi Rascal's Song
1976		Daihijôsen

1975		Shimane Prison Riot as Dog breeder
1975		Pimp Heaven as Yoshiichi
1975		The Viper Brothers and the Young General

1974		The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers
1974		The Viper Brothers: Up on 30 Charges

1973		The Viper Brothers: The Blackmailers as Katsu
1973		Professional Killers as Gozamatsu no Magohachi
1973		The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail
1973		Battles Without Honor and Humanity as Kanbara Seiichi

1972		Informal Dress
1972		The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
1972		The Viper Brothers: Prison Gang 13
1972		Kogarashi Monjiro as Sentaro

1971		The Viper Brothers Rage Again
1971		The Viper Brothers
1971		Night Butterflies
1971		The Earth is Born Again as Yokoyama
1971		A Man's World

1970		Waterfront Blues as Chiba
1970		Spartan Education
1970		Fossil of Love
1970		Abare chōhan
1970		A Gangster's Morals

1969		Tale of the Last Japanese Yakuza
1969		Penitentiary Brothers as Jiro Matsubara
1969		Mini-Skirt Lynchers
1969		Savage Wolf Pack
1969		Women of the Night - Butterfly Flower

1968		Outlaw: Black Dagger as Sueo Shige
1968		若い川の流れ
1968		Retaliation as Naruse
1968		Seishun no kaze
1968		Outlaw: Gangster VIP as Isamu Tsujikawa

1967		My Sweetheart as Kawachi
1967		Aruhi watashi wa
1967		The Kanto Region Is Also Expanding as Ishikawa no Torakichi
1967		Gappa, the Triphibian Monster as Hiroshi Kurosaki
1967		The Black Sheep

1966		Star of Destiny
1966		Lost in the Rain as Nozaki Masaya
1966		Watashi, chigatteiru kashira as Yoshida
1966		Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
1966		Tokyo Drifter as Tatsuzo the Viper
1966		Cheers to the Sky
1966		Carmen from Kawachi as Seiji Takano

1965		The Rule for a Vagabond as Naojiro
1965		Loss of innocence
1965		Gambling is My Destiny
1965		Story of a Prostitute as Shinkichi Mikami

1964		Whirlpool of Flesh as Kenichi Sekiguchi
1964		Quick-Draw Joe: Sand Dune Duel as Kurokawa
1964		Ningen ni kakeruna
1964		Kaze to Ki to Sora to
1964		Black Sun as Akira
1964		Welcome, My Baby as Toshio Tanimura
1964		The Flower and the Angry Waves
1964		Cruel Gun Story as Takizawa
1964		Red Handkerchief

1963		Jidanya
1963		Prince of Wolves as Ginji Tachibana
1963		The Hill is Full of Flowers as Masaya Nozaki
1963		午前零時の出獄
1963		Youth of the Beast as Hideo Nomoto
1963		I Fly for Kicks
1963		Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! as Manabe

1962		Utau abarenbō
1962		The Guys Who Put Money on Me as Kenjiro Yoshida
1962		Yoko o muita seishun
1962		Naku n janai ze
1962		I Hate But Love as Hiroshi Ozaki
1962		Teenage Yakuza as Jiro
1962		Taiyō no yō ni akaruku
1962		Hana no saigetsu

1961		Wharf Temperament as Eiji Iwasa
1961		Lost in the Sun
1961		Kitakami yakyoku as Keisuke Shirato
1961		Aoime no Sugao
1961		Hotbed of Crime
1961		Yabure Kabure
1961		Shōjo

1960		Flowers in the rain
1960		The Angry Rambler
1960		Everything Goes Wrong as Jirô Sugita
1960		The Warped Ones as Akira
1960		Return of the Vagabond
1960		The Guitarist from the Sea

1959		When a Man Risks His Life
1959		Mighty Rules
1959		The Sky Is Mine
1959		Woman from the Sea as Toshio
1959		Dream Young Man's Dream
1959		Downhill Youth as Yasuo Kawase
1959		Umi wa kurutte iru
1959		Gun Number Zero as Yoshio
1959		Wounded Beast
1959		Hijo tehai
1959		Unripe Fruit
1959		The Stream of Youth as Yasuo Kitaoka
1959		Friendship of Jazz as Kenji Kawazoe

1958		Osaka no kaze
1958		Orera wa nagashi no ninkisha
1958		Taiyō o buchi otose
1958		The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow as Kaoru Shirafuji
1958		The Man Who Rode the Typhoon
1958		The Coming of Age as Yasushi Nanjô
1958		A Slope in the Sun as Tamio Takagi