Cast: Tetsurô Tanba

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Akira Ishihama · Shima Iwashita

Synopsis Harakiri (1962) follows Tsugumo Hanshirō, a destitute rōnin, who arrives at the estate of the Iyi clan requesting to commit ritual suicide (seppuku) in their courtyard. As the clan prepares for the ceremony, they recount a similar incident involving another...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Rentarô Mikuni · Katsuo Nakamura · Kei Sato

Synopsis This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her. "The...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Kyoko Aoi · Kamatari Fujiwara · Mikijiro Hira

Synopsis Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's...

Direction Toshio Masuda · Hajime Takaiwa

Cast Atsuo Nakamura · Sanae Tsuchida · Kei Sato · Isamu Nagato

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Sachiko Hidari · Shinjiro Ebara · Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis Japanese auteur Kinji Fukasaku examines the trauma of World War II in his home country in the docu-drama UNDER THE FLAG OF THE RISING SUN (GUNKI HATAMEKU MOTONI). Taking his cue from HIROSHIMA, MON AMOUR, Fukasaku combines a fictional drama...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Kinnosuke Nakamura · Tetsurô Tanba · Yôko Tsukasa

Synopsis A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Akira Kobayashi · Tsunehiko Watase · Shingo Yamashiro

Synopsis Kinji Fukasaku's revered gangster series is a landmark of 1970's Japanese cinema. Set just after WWII and based on the memoirs of a real-life crime boss, these films serve to deglamorize the traditional cinematic portrayal of organized crime, instead painting...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Go Kato · Kensaku Morita · Yôko Shimada

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Masako Natsume · Shima Iwashita · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis Matsue is the adoptive daughter of the Kiryuin House, a small yakuza clan in Shikoku. Onimasa, their leader, is the last heir to a family of samurai. He is hard in business but respected by the poor because of his...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Yoshio Harada · Ayumi Ishida · Keiko Kishi

Synopsis Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan conflict. Tanigawa quickly rises in stature in the clan, but finds his...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Noboru Andô · Tetsurô Tanba · Kyôko Enami

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Sonny Chiba · Hiroki Matsukata · Teruhiko Saigô

Synopsis Following the death of the second Tokugawa shogun, it is revealed that he was poisoned by retainers of his son Iemitsu in hopes of gaining him the shogunate despite the stammer and birthmark which undermine his respect. Iemitsu and his...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

Cast Jitsuko Yoshimura · Yôko Minamida · Masao Mishima · Hiroyuki Nagato

Synopsis Teen hoodlum Kinta is excited to be given the plum job of supervising the pig pen at the local US base, for which he'll be responsible diverting the food scraps to the black market, and scoring a good income for...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Hiroki Matsukata · Tomomi Satô · Yôko Mihara · Tetsurô Tanba

Synopsis Blackmail Is My Life centers on a quartet of young daredevils who've discovered blackmail as a means to enjoy the booming economy from which they've been excluded. When they try to squeeze both Yakuza kingpins and government officials by threatening...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Tetsurô Tanba · Eiji Okada · Eitarô Ozawa · Isao Kimura

Synopsis The film follows the brief life of Hachiro Kiyokawa, an ambitious ronin (master-less samurai) in a time of political tumult in 19th Century Japan. Kiyokawa, a mysterious character and expert swordsman, shifts between both factions - the Tokugawa Shogunate and...

Direction Samira Makhmalbaf · Claude Lelouch · Youssef Chahine · Danis Tanovic

Cast Ernest Borgnine · Ken Ogata · Tetsurô Tanba · Tomorô Taguchi

Synopsis A reaction piece to the United States' terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, this controversial film calls upon eleven directors from various countries to contribute 11-minute 9-second films about the event. Variously political, violent, disturbing, abstract, opinionated,... A reaction piece...

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Noboru Andô · Akira Kobayashi · Isao Natsuyagi · Ryoji Hayama

Synopsis An retired yakuza is caught in the middle of a growing conflict between two rival clans.

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

Cast Koji Takahashi · Eiji Okada · Kei Sato · Jun Hamamura

Synopsis Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Tatewaki Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the...

Direction Petras Abukiavicus · Toshio Goto · Sergei Vronsky

Cast Aleksandr Filippenko · Olegar Fedoro · Mikhail Golubovich · Nikita Mikhalkov

Synopsis In 1918 some Siberian white wolves cross the frozen Siberian tundra to bring medicines to Siberian children. This is the story of Buran, a great dog, and the hunter Genzo. After many troubles, they will try to arrive in time...

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Chiezô Kataoka · Kô Nishimura · Ryohei Uchida · Isao Natsuyagi

Synopsis Receiving a confidential order from the Tokugawa Shogunate, 13 Samurai Warriors start plotting the assassination of Matsudaira Nariaki, chief of the Akashi clan who is extraordinarily cruel and lewd. The group has only 60 days to achieve their goal, to...