Akikane Sawa

Biography

Career Overview

Akikane Sawa has 152 screen credits in a career dating back to 1955. Their work spans 17 cinematic universes — most prominently Brutal Tales of Chivalry Collection with 5 titles. Signature works include Night of the Suspicions, Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf, Gambler's World 2. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Acting

Gender

male

Known Credits

152

Known For

• 

  Night of the Suspicions
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  Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf
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  Gambler's World 2
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  Gang vs. G-Men
• 

  Seven-Color Mask: Red Jaguar - Million Dollar Showdown
• 

  Seven-Color Mask: Red Jaguar - Horror of the Black Hand

Associated Universes

Universe traveler — spans 17 universes

• Brutal Tales of Chivalry Collection (5 titles)
• Abashiri Prison Collection (5 titles)
• Gyangu Collection (5 titles)
• Gambler Collection (3 titles)
• Japan's Violent Gangs (2 titles)
• Game of Chance Collection (2 titles)
• Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life Collection (2 titles)
• Police Precinct Collection (2 titles)

Frequent Collaborators

• Kōji Sekiyama (4 collaborations)
• Akira Katayama (4 collaborations)
• Harumi Sone (4 collaborations)
• Ken Takakura (2 collaborations)
• Yoshiko Sakuma (2 collaborations)
• Tamaki Sawa (2 collaborations)
• Isamu Yamaguchi (2 collaborations)
• Junkichi Orimoto (2 collaborations)
• Katsuo Tagawa (2 collaborations)
• Shinsuke Mikimoto (2 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (152 credits)

  • The Ando Gang Documentary Film

    actor

    actors
    1973
  • Shōwa Gokudōshi

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Sex Up and Down

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • The Armed Organization

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: Forbidden Love

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • The Gambler's Counterattack

    Awano

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Patience Has An End

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Sympathy for the Underdog

    Doctor

    actor

    actors
    1971
  • Thugs of Shinjuku

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Fear of Sex

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • A Kamikaze Cop

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Prison Tales

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Kanto Street Peddlers: Clan Violent Loyalty

    Takasaki Kichinosuke

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Horrors of Malformed Men

    Hunchback A

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Okatsu the Fugitive

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Private Police

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Japan Organized Crime Boss

    Juhei Sakurada

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Yakuza Law

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Biggest Gamble

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Girl in College

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • Red Peony Gambler: Flower Cards Game

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • The Yakuza Awaits

    actor

    actors
    1969
  • New Prison Walls of Abashiri

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Gambling Den's Master Clan

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Snake Woman's Curse

    Matsugorô

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Secret Information

    Hideo Tsukamoto

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Henchmen

    Takeuchi

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Scoundrel

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Gambler's Farewell

    Shimizu

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • Army Intelligence

    actor

    actors
    1968
  • A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

    Jailer

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • The Rickshaw Man’s Son

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Gambler's World 2

    Inosuke Ishiguro

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Game of Chance 3

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Parole

    Sugawara

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Gambler's World

    Yoshizô

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 4

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • North Sea Chivalry

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Organized Violence II

    Takebayashi

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Game of Chance 2

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Organized Violence

    actor

    actors
    1967
  • Glorious Fights

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Rampaging Dragon of the North

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Dash to the Sun

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Contemporary Tales of Chivalry: The Lone Wolf

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Showdown of Men

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • The Kamikaze Guy

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Greatest Boss of the Showa Era

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Third Class Soldier Boss

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Thirst for Love

    Masuda

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Women Doing Time

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • A Circus Girl

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

    actor

    actors
    1966
  • Gang's Upward Strategy

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Code of Ruffians

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Prison Walls of Abashiri 3

    Sawa

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Chained Bitch

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Brutal Tales of Chivalry

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • The Hoodlum Brothers

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • A Charming Devil

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Tale of Japanese Burglars

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Abashiri Prison

    Kunizo Tachibana

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • A Fugitive from the Past

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • The Boss

    actor

    actors
    1965
  • Gamblers and Racketeers

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Detective

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Red Diamond

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Two Lives, Two Yakuza

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Wolves, Pigs & Men

    Iwasaki

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Homicide

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Main Street in the Underworld

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Night Scandal in Japan

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Life of Hishakaku 3

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Police Precinct: Confession

    actor

    actors
    1964
  • Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Blackmail

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • League of Gangsters

    Old man A

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Asakusa no kyōkaku

    Kinsuke Hyotan

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Duel of the Underworld

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Judo Life

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • A Devil of a Gentleman

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Life of Hishakaku

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Violent Street

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

    actor

    actors
    1963
  • Fearful Witch

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Gang vs. G-Men

    Ooka

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Hell's Kitchen

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Ganko Oyaji to Edokko Shain

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • 365 Nights

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Hibari the Traveling Performer

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Gang vs. Gang

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Four Sisters

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Zankokuna tsuki

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • G-Men in the Pacific

    Nakano

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Tales of President Mito

    Mori

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Injured Boy

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • The Challenge

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Pleasant Company

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Love at the Fogged Harbor

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • 新婚シリーズ　最初が肝心

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • 新婚シリーズ　月給日は嫌い

    actor

    actors
    1962
  • Devil's Nursery Rhyme

    Patrolman Okada

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Feisty Edo Girl Nakanori-san

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Man with a Funky Hat: The 20,000,000 Yen Arm

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Invasion of the Neptune Men

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Red Flowers of Hell

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Amazon mushuku seiki no dai maō

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • 若い涙を吹きとばせ

    actor

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    1961
  • The Harbor Lights

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Darling Escape

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Futaridake no taiyō

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Otoko no chiheisen

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • I Am The Magician From Hell

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Botchan yarō seizoroi

    actor

    actors
    1961
  • Devotion to Railway

    On-duty yardmaster

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Deep River Melody

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Sand City in Manchuria

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Man of Seven Faces

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • One Passed Through Hell

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Second Bullet is Marked

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Seven-Color Mask: Red Jaguar - The Final Trump Card

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Seven-Color Mask: Red Jaguar - Million Dollar Showdown

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • Seven-Color Mask: Red Jaguar - Horror of the Black Hand

    actor

    actors
    1960
  • The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

    Shiraki

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Disappearing Gentleman

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Devil's Rose

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Seven-Color Mask: Chase of Death

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Seven-Color Mask: Terrifying Revenge

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Night of the Suspicions

    中条

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Prince of Space

    Commander Kôda

    actor

    actors
    1959
  • Sister with Sister

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • With Songs in My Heart

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Moonlight Mask

    actor

    actors
    1958
  • Jet Air Base 101

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Eleventh Hour

    Kawasaki

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Showdown in Blood

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • The Deep Blue Sea

    actor

    actors
    1957
  • Police Precinct: The Left-Handed Killer

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Three-Headed Tower

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Lightning Karate Blow

    actor

    actors
    1956
  • Murder on the Last Train

    actor

    actors
    1955