Ikki Kajiwara

Lupin the Third: The Mystery of Mamo

While attempting to win the affections of a beautiful rival, a master thief risks death to learn the secret intentions of a wealthy and seemingly immortal, but certainly ruthless, recluse.

Release Date1978-12-16

Charactersd General Secretary (voice)

Vote Count104

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?

Release Date1976-09-23

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Charactersd

Tomorrow's Joe

Joe Yabuki is a troubled youth, whose only solution to problems is throwing punches at them. What he lacks in manners and discipline, he makes up for with his self-taught fighting skills. One day, while wandering the slums of Doya, Joe gets into a fight with the local gang. Although greatly outnumbered, he effortlessly defeats them, drawing the attention of Danpei Tange—a former boxing coach turned alcoholic. Seeing his potential, he offers to train Joe into Japan's greatest boxer. At first, Joe dismisses Danpei as a hopeless drunk; but after the trainer saves his life, he agrees to live with him and learn the art of boxing. Unfortunately, Joe's personality makes him an unruly student, and he often falls back to his old ways. To survive the harsh world of his new career, Joe needs to trust his mentor and master the techniques taught to him. However, the road to becoming a professional boxer is rife with struggles that will test his mettle to the end.

Release Date1970-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobLyricist

Episode Count79

Vote Count26

Tiger Mask

A villainous masked wrestler becomes a hero for the sake of protecting the orphanage in which he was raised.

Release Date1969-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count105

Vote Count18

MEGALOBOX

A desolate land stretches out from the city of poverty. A motorcycle speeds recklessly, blowing clouds of sand and dust. The rider is the protagonist of this story – he has neither a name nor a past. All he has is his ring name, “Junk Dog” and a technique for rigging MEGALOBOX matches with his pal Gansaku Nanbu, which they use to support their hand-to-mouth lives. JD is bored, resigned, and unfulfilled. Yuri has been the reigning champion of MEGALOBOX for the past few years. He has the skills and presence of a true champion. This is a story of JD and his rival, Yuri.

Release Date2018-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Concept

Episode Count26

Vote Count232

Star of the Giants

In 1969, at the press conference of Nagashima Shigeo who was joining a professional baseball team, Yomiurhi Kyojin, a ball was thrown at him by a boy. He was Hoshi Hyuma, and a thrown ball meant a letter of challenge. His father, Hoshi Ittetsu, had trained Huma since he had been very young to achieve his dream to make him a professional baseball player.

Release Date1968-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count234

Vote Count2

Judo Sanka

Toshinta Tomoe decides to join the high school judo club to follow the footsteps of his mother, Teruko, a former judo champion.

Release Date1974-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count27

Kick no Oni

An arrogant karate master named Tadashi Sawamura enters the kickboxing ring to prove his superiority, only to be beaten into a coma by a practictioner of the new art. After recovering, his trainer Endo convinced Sawamura to study kickboxing in order to regain his honor.

Release Date1970-10-02

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count26

Samurai Giants

A wild and overzealous baseball player is scouted and trained by the Yomiuri Giants as their new star pitcher.

Release Date1973-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count46

Vote Count2

Karate Master

Based on Ooyama Masutatsu's early years. After having survived the war as a Kamikaze pilot, Ken goes on a path to become the strongest martial artist in the world. Fighting bears, bulls and countless other martial arts such as Muay Thai, Tai Chi and many more around the world.

Release Date1973-10-03

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count47

Vote Count1

Red Blooded Eleven

The residents build a new school called Shinsei High School. Shingo has lots of charm, and it seems all the girls cannot keep away from him, he sings off key and waters flowers. Matsuki Tenpei the teacher introduced the students to the game of football.

Release Date1970-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count52

Vote Count1

The Ringleader of the Sunset

A transfer student only just arrives and is confronted by the school gang. One by one he defeats the gang members and challenges their leader to a fight. Each 10 minute episode aired Monday through Saturday.

Release Date1968-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Episode Count26

The Bodyguard

Karate master and anti-drug vigilante Chiba returns to his home in Japan, where he holds a press conference announcing his intention to wipe out the nation's drug industry. He also offers his services as a bodyguard to anyone who is willing to come forward and provide information about the drug lords' activities. He is soon approached by a mysterious woman claiming to have important information and asking for Chiba's protection. She seems to be legitimate, but is she really what she appears to be?

Release Date1973-06-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

Karate Bear Fighter

Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oyama flees away to a small town where he both learns lessons in martial arts philosophy from a wandering master and helps a young boy take on a challenge to fight a ferocious captured bear to win money for the boy's injured father.

Release Date1975-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count12

Karate for Life

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 dive, he quits in disgust. However, when a friend finds herself in desperate need of medical supplies, Oyama steps back in the ring to raise the money—but will he be able to follow the script this time?

Release Date1977-05-14

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count13

Karate Bullfighter

Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After turning down the chance to fight at future tournaments he returns to his simple village life. He reluctantly returns to karate for a final showdown against the students of a rival school.

Release Date1975-08-09

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count13

Tomorrow's Joe

Set in the 1960's, Joe Yabuki lives in a run-down low income area. There, alcoholic ex-boxer Danpei Tange notices Joe Yabuki's talents as a boxer. But then, Joe gets into trouble and is sentenced into the youth detention center. In the youth detention center, Joe gets into a brawl and then is knocked out by Toru Rikiishi who is a champion caliber professional boxer.

Release Date2011-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count14

A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness

A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.

Release Date1977-05-21

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count13

For Love's Sake

Troubled high school student Makoto arrives in Tokyo to exact revenge from a past incident. He then falls in love at first sight with Ai, a daughter raised in a wholesome family. Around Makoto and Ai are Iwashimizu, who has feelings for Ai and Gamuko, a gang member who eyes Makoto.

Release Date2012-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count32

Karate Killer

Kiba is back again, but this time he has fallen from grace and sent to prison for all the violent acts he has committed. Once he's out, he begins working as a bodyguard in a club that is crawling with gangsters.

Release Date1973-10-13

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count7

Tiger Mask

As an orphan, Naoto Date was scouted by mysterious organization Tiger's Cave. The group trains young men to become villainous wrestlers and collects half of their earnings. Naoto Date goes through a harsh training regime and eventually graduates from Tiger's Cave. He hopes other orphans will not have to go through the difficult life he has. Naoto Date then makes his debut as the villain Tiger Mask. With his earnings, he also begins to donate his earnings to an orphanage where he grew up. When Naoto Date hears of the orphanage's desperate financial situation, he donates all of his earnings, including the portion that is supposed to go to Tiger Cave. Tiger Cave now considers Naoto Date a traitor and they send assassins to get ride of Tiger Mask.

Release Date2013-11-09

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count2

Tomorrow's Joe The Movie

Joe Yabuki is a troubled youth, whose only solution to problems is throwing punches at them. What he lacks in manners and discipline, he makes up for with his self-taught fighting skills. One day, while wandering the slums of Doya, Joe gets into a fight with the local gang. Although greatly outnumbered, he effortlessly defeats them, drawing the attention of Danpei Tange—a former boxing coach turned alcoholic. Seeing his potential, he offers to train Joe into Japan's greatest boxer. At first, Joe dismisses Danpei as a hopeless drunk; but after the trainer saves his life, he agrees to live with him and learn the art of boxing. Unfortunately, Joe's personality makes him an unruly student, and he often falls back to his old ways. To survive the harsh world of his new career, Joe needs to trust his mentor and master the techniques taught to him. However, the road to becoming a professional boxer is rife with struggles that will test his mettle to the end.

Release Date1980-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count10

Bodyguard Kiba

Naoto Kiba takes on the task of protecting thug Junpei who embezzled 500 million yen from Okinawa's largest gangster gangs, Soryu-kai.

Release Date1993-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count9

Tomorrow's Joe 2: The Movie

It has been six months since the tragic accident in Joe and Rikiishi's fight. Joe believes he has overcome Rikiishi's death and decides to make a comeback. Joe does make a successful comeback by scoring 5 KO's by body blows. Joe is then given a shot at the national title as a means by the boxing commission to put him down. The champion, Tiger Ozaki makes use of Joe's habits and ends up making Joe's corner throw in the towel. Joe is afraid to throw punches at the face because of what happened to Rikiishi. Youko, Joe's love interest and the owner of the gym where Rikiishi trained at recruits a world ranked boxer from Venezuela, Carlos Rivera, to get Joe back on his feet and pursue his boxing career to the regional and world ranks.

Release Date1981-07-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

Shin Karate Jigokuhen

A returning veteran and karateka from WW2 starts working for the yakuza, looking for a man strong enough to kill him. After becoming a karate champion, he joins an Italian woman who is looking for revenge against the nazis who killed her family.

Release Date1990-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Star of the Giants

Hyuma Hoshi dreams of becoming a top baseball star like his father, a 3rd baseman who was injured in World War II and forced to retire. Hoshi joins the wildly popular Giants team and soon realizes the difficulty of managing high expectations. From the grueling training to his rivalry with Hanagata of the Hanshin Tigers, Hoshi will need some pitching magic to make it in the big leagues.

Release Date1982-08-21

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Bodyguard Kiba: Apocalypse of Carnage

Kiba is a bodyguard who works to raise money for his master's karate dojo. He gets the assignment to guard a young woman in Taipei...

Release Date1994-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count2

The Legend of Love & Sincerity

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?

Release Date1974-07-13

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Judo for Life

Naoya Ichijo uses special judo techniques to succeed.

Release Date1970-07-19

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

A Human Murder Weapon

A man dubbed "Karate Kid" is imprisoned and forced to fight for his life in an underground fighting ring.

Release Date1992-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count1

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Continuation

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Meet Taiga Makoto, a young man with a scar between his eyes who has had a rough life, but has emerged as a rough, tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. But is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully?

Release Date1975-03-15

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Star of the Giants - Go, Go, Hyuma

At Koshien, Hyuma shows a great match with Toyosaku Samon and Mitsuru Hanagata. In addition, a work that condenses important episodes until Hyuma grabs the giant star in his hand, such as the "Blood-dyed Ball Incident" that changed his fate and the Giants Army Joining Test with the addition of a new rival Hayami.

Release Date1969-12-20

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Vote Count4

13 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats

Maki is the leader of a female gang who fights for justice, but she ends up being framed and sent to a sadistic woman's prison. Will Maki be able to escape and take revenge?

Release Date1975-03-08

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count12

Ame no meguri ai

Japanese drama film.

Release Date1977-05-21

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Tomorrow's Joe

Release Date1970-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Tiger Boy

Matteo, a nine years old kid, builds a mask identical to the one of his hero: a wrestler of a roman suburb called The Tiger. Once the mask is on, Matteo never wants to take it off. What simply appears as a tantrum is in reality a call for help that nobody seems to hear.

Release Date2012-06-16

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count42

Bodyguard Kiba: Combat Apocalypse 2

When a young karate student attempts to earn some extra cash by serving as bodyguard to a high-profile Hong Kong woman, the initial distraction of her beauty soon gives way to razor sharp focus as a series of attackers descend upon the pair.

Release Date1995-02-03

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Daredevil Drivers

A Japanese stunt-drivers team make its way to California for a car stunt tournament. Otomo, a Japanese driver, falls for a beautiful American woman.

Release Date1978-02-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

四角いジャングル 激突！格闘技

The second martial arts documentary film written and directed by Ikki Kajiwara. It features many famous fights of different martial arts fought by Antonia Inoki, Tatsumi Fujinami, and Oyama Baidatsu, the founder of Kyokushin Karate! Many of the fights are by Kyokushin Karate fighters, and there are many precious images of Hikaru Ninomiya winning the All Japan Kyokushin Tournament, where he beat the later famous fighters Makoto Nakamura and Keiji Sanpei. Kick legend Toshio Fujiwara is also included in three matches: against Prayut Seesonhop, Sinsak Sosiripan, and the second round of the Seaplay Cat Songpop.

Release Date1979-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tiger Mask (1970)

Naoto Date, also known as Tiger Mask, betrayed the international villainous wrestler group "Tiger's Den" to which he belongs in order to protect the orphanage "Children's House", which can be said to be his parents' home. Tora no Ana, who is trying to punish him with death, sends the beastman gorillaman as the next assassin. Faced with a formidable foe who boasts superhuman strength, he once thought about using a foul technique to get through.

Release Date1970-03-17

DepartmentWriting

JobOriginal Story

Vote Count1