Personal Info
Birth date
1929-12-18 (95 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan
Also known as
藤山浩二
藤山 浩一
Kōichi Fujiyama
Kōji Fujiyama
Biography
Kōji Fujiyama was a Japanese actor known for his work with Daiei and Toei Studios in the 1960s and 70s. He is perhaps best known for his appearances in the Gamera series, as well as in various horror, yakuza, and samurai films. He also appeared on television, including many detective dramas and historical dramas. His former stage name is Kōichi Fujiyama. He belonged to OT Kikaku after working at Daiei and Toei. On February 22, 1983, he was arrested in Yokohama for allegedly using stimulants at home. On April 22 of the same year, the Yokohama District Court sentenced Fujiyama to one year and two months in prison, suspended for three years. No appearances have been confirmed since the same year, and his whereabouts after that are unknown.
Filmography
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
7.4
Overview:
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin. Ogami Itto, the official Shogunate executioner, has been framed for disloyalty to the Shogunate by the Yagyu clan, against whom he now is waging a one-man war, along with his infant son, Daigoro.Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable
6.8
Overview:
Following her successful prison break, Scorpion begins this third episode in the series hiding out in a brothel. Her prostitute friend tries to keep her identity secret, but the brothel's madam discovers that Scorpion is the ex-girlfriend of the vice officer who killed her lover.Zatoichi Challenged
6.797
Overview:
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After arriving in the town, Ichi finds out that the father has been forced by a local boss to create illegal pornography to pay off his gambling debts. Ichi makes it his mission to save the man and reunite the family, even though it brings him into conflict with a samurai he sort of befriended on his way to the town.Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701
7.009
Overview:
After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi, a detective in cohorts with the mob with whom she was whole-heartedly in love, Matsushima’s desire for revenge knows no bounds.Gamera vs. Viras
5.8
Overview:
As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's spaceship, the Scouts are menaced by the evil inhabitants, including Viras, a squid-like monster that grows to colossal size to battle Gamera.Gamera, the Giant Monster
5.966
Overview:
A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.Gamera vs. Barugon
6.418
Overview:
Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.Graveyard of Honor
6.7
Overview:
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
6.4
Overview:
Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into the nubile buttocks of Chinese prostitutes. Koryu's older sister, working as a jewelry designer, is secretly, if unhappily, involved with the gangsters.Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons
7.3
Overview:
In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assassination.Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell
7.1
Overview:
In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
6.4
Overview:
Agent Zero is a cop that uses her own methods for dealing with criminals. After she unlawfully kills a rapist in a violent fashion, she is sent to prison and stripped of her badge. But very soon after, a rich politician's daughter is kidnapped by a ruthless gang. Agent Zero is let out of prison with the mission of going undercover to find the politician's daughter and return her safely. Using her deadly red handcuffs, she disposes of the criminals one by one.Fight, Zatoichi, Fight
6.858
Overview:
Blind swordsman/masseuse Zatoichi befriends a young woman returning home with her baby. When gangsters mistake her for Zatoichi and kill her, Zatoichi determines to escort the baby to its father. He gains the reluctant help of a young pick pocket and together they travel to find the baby's father. But they do not reckon on the father's reaction to their arrival, nor on their own growing feelings for the child.Return of Giant Majin
6.2
Overview:
The tyrannical Lord Danjo Mikoshiba covets the rich, fertile lands surrounding Lake Yakumo. During a memorial ceremony for the late Chigusa lord, Mikoshiba launches an attack, overthrowing the honorable Lord Juro. Just when all seems lost, Daimajin rises from Lake Yakumo to settle a score of his own.Violent Streets
6.9
Overview:
With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence.Black Lizard
7.1
Overview:
The cunning detective Akeichi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.Zatoichi's Revenge
6.648
Overview:
Itinerant masseur and master swordsman, the blind Zatoichi, is near the village of his teacher, Hikonoichi, so he decides to visit. He learns of Hikonoichi's recent robbery and murder and the imprisonment of his virginal daughter, Osayo, in a brothel. Through friendship with Denroku, a local dice thrower and devoted father, Ichi uncovers an unholy alliance between the governor and the area strongman: among their scams is falsifying tax records to put farmers in debt, then forcing their daughters into prostitution at the boss's brothel. With help from Denroku's daughter, Otsuru, Ichi comforts Osayo until he can provoke showdowns with the villains and their henchmen.A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
5.944
Overview:
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.Gamera vs. Zigra
4.7
Overview:
A moon base is destroyed by a spaceship from Zigra which is looking to take over the planet earth to use its oceans for its ocean-dwelling denizens. Gamera must once again come to the aid of the human race while all of Japan roots him on.The Whale God
6.75
Overview:
A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.Hoodlum Soldier
7.3
Overview:
A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.Street Mobster
6.907
Overview:
After serving time, a defiant street thug is incensed to find his town overrun by two yakuza factions. He gathers his crew and takes them on.Wolf Guy
5.9
Overview:
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of bloody killings perpetrated by an unseen force, Inugami uncovers a conspiracy involving a murdered cabaret singer, corrupt politicians, and a plot by the J-CIA to harvest his blood in order to steal his lycanthropic powers.The Last Betrayal
NYR
Overview:
A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo
7.5
Overview:
Hidejirō is sent to prison after killing the boss of a rival family. After being released, he discovers that his family has scattered and he is taken in by a company of quarry workers, whose boss has a strict code of non-violence. When the rival family tries to take over the company and kills their boss, Hidejirō must choose between his promise of non-violence and his yakuza code of revenge...Gateway to Glory
7.5
Overview:
A young man leaves his widowed mother on her improverished farm and makes his career in the Japanese navy.Bloodstained Clan of Honor
7.2
Overview:
It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to Japan Inc. A young Bunta Sugawara takes over as the oyabun of a crime syndicate in Yokohama, where he is struggling to keep operations at the port there alive. As his syndicate is eroding quickly, a major heavy industries company offers his gang the chance to chase some vagrants out of a shantytown where they are squatting on land where a factory is to be built. The job would secure steady profits for Bunta's crime ring for years to come. However, Bunta and other members of his outfit grew up in the shanty, and they would be muscling their friends and neighbors. This sets the stage for an internal struggle that complicates the violent struggle with a rival mafia organization in Tokyo.While Yet a Wife
NYR
Overview:
A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.Acting
1977Shinjuku's Number One Drunk-Killer Tetsu as Unknown
1976A Kawachi Rascal's Song as Unknown
1975The Wild Trucker as Unknown
1975Great Jailbreak as Unknown
1975Wolf Guy as Seizo
197513 Steps of Maki: The Young Aristocrats as Unknown
1975Graveyard of Honor as Unknown
1975A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse as Toriyama (Bath-house Manager)
1974Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread as Goro Kuroki
1974Violent Fraternity as Unknown
1974A Single Flower Withered as Unknown
1974Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs as Unknown
1974Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell as Tomita Tatewaki
1974Violent Streets as Unknown
1973The Ando Gang Documentary Film as Unknown
1973Yokosuka Navy Prison as Unknown
1973Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons as Tsutsumi Rokurojiro
1973Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable as Yamazaki
1973Internal Sleuth as Unknown
1973Quarreling with Yakuza as Unknown
1972Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers as Adachi
1972Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 as Hori
1972Street Mobster as Ronanushi
1972Gang Warfare as Unknown
1972Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance as Unknown
1971A Modern Yakuza: Three Decoy Blood Brothers as Unknown
1971The Armed Organization as Unknown
1971Evil Boss vs. Henchmen as Unknown
1971Gamera vs. Zigra as Dr. Tom Wallace
1971Patience Has An End as Unknown
1970Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters as Unknown
1970The Last Kamikaze as Unknown
1970A Hoodlum At The Risk Of His Life as Unknown
1970Code Between Brothers: All New as Unknown
1970Bloodstained Clan of Honor as Unknown
1970Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers as Unknown
1969Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers as Unknown
1969The Woman Gambler's Trump Card as Unknown
1969The Private Police as Unknown
1969Woman Gambling Expert: Odd/Even Gambling Trip as Unknown
1969Gateway to Glory as Unknown
1969Brutal Tales of Chivalry 5: Man With The Karajishi Tattoo as Unknown
1968New Prison Walls of Abashiri as Unknown
1968The Woman Gambler's Revenge as Unknown
1968Gamera vs. Viras as Self-Defense Force Commander
1967Zatoichi Challenged as Gokishi
1967The Silent Gun as Eizo Obata
1967G-Men of the Sea: Pacific Ocean Bodyguards as Unknown
1967Medal from the Devil as Unknown
1967Five Star Private as Unknown
1966A Woman's Gamble as Unknown
1966Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom as Unknown
1966殺人者 as Unknown
1966Return of Giant Majin as Ikkaku Arai
1966Gamera vs. Barugon as Onodera
1966A Man Worth the Money as Unknown
1966Trump Card of Revenge as Unknown
1965Gamera, the Giant Monster as US Arctic Base Commander
1965While Yet a Wife as Unknown
1965Zero-Fighters as Unknown
1965Fangs of Vengeance as Unknown
1965雲を呼ぶ講道館 as Unknown
1965Zatoichi's Revenge as Ronin
1965Hoodlum Soldier as Unknown
1964Kojiki taishō as Unknown
1964Fight, Zatoichi, Fight as Unknown
1964Black Trump Card as Unknown
1964Fools at Work as Office worker-style hot-blooded man
1963Ōkuma Shigenobu the great as Unknown
1962Order of Yakuza as Unknown
1962The Midday Trap as Detective Ikeuchi
1962The Whale God as Unknown
1962Princess and I as Unknown
1962Black Lizard as Unknown
1962誘拐 as Unknown
1962Aru kankei as Unknown
1961Bad Reputation Returns as Unknown
1961Triangle Moods as Unknown
1961Gonin no totsugeki tai as Unknown
1961Bara to ryū as Unknown
1960Hit and Run Gang as Unknown
1960The Last Betrayal as Unknown