Cast: Tetsurô Tanba

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

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

Plot A ronin, a masterless samurai, requests permission to commit an honorable ritual suicide at the home of a powerful but sadistic warlord. The warlord is reluctant to permit this as...

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Plot 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...

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

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

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Yoshitaro Nomura

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

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Shôhei Imamura

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

Plot 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...

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

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

Plot 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...

Direction Masahiro Shinoda

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

Plot 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...

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

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

Plot 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...

Direction Hideo Gosha

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

Plot 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

Plot 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...

Direction Petras Abukiavicus · Toshio Goto · Sergei Vronsky

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

Plot 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....

Direction Eiichi Kudo

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

Plot 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...