Cast: Tetsurô Tanba

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Tetsurô Tanba. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Silence

1971 · Movie · 129 min. · Japan

6.5

131 votes

6.5

131 votes

Abashiri Prison

1965 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

6.4

52 votes

6.4

52 votes

Seven Blows of the Dragon

1972 · Movie · 120 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Chang Cheh · Pao Hsueh-Li · Wu Ma

Cast David Chiang · Ti Lung · Chen Kuan-Tai · Wong Chung

Plot This martial arts masterpiece is based on the true legend of how 108 rebel heroes living in the mountain, known as the Mountain Brothers, were able to repeatedly defeat invading...

6.4

25 votes

6.4

25 votes

The Ghosts of Kasane Swamp

1957 · Movie · 66 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Takashi Wada · Noriko Kitazawa · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp....

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

Gozu

2003 · Movie · 127 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Hideki Sone · Sho Aikawa · Kimika Yoshino · Shôhei Hino

Plot Minami, a member of the Azamawari crew, highly respects his Aniki (brother) Ozaki who has saved his life in the past. However, lately Ozaki's eccentricities (like claiming that a Chihuahua...

6.3

2K votes

6.3

2K votes

Bridge to the Sun

1961 · Movie · 113 min. · United States

Direction Etienne Périer

Cast Carroll Baker · James Shigeta · James Yagi · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot An American woman marries a Japanese diplomat on the eve of World War II... In 1930, while vacationing in Washington, D. C., Tennessee-born Gwen Harold falls in love with and...

6.3

53 votes

6.3

53 votes

A Wicked Woman (Poisonous Woman Takahashi O-Den)

1958 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Jûzaburô Akechi · Tetsurô Tanba · Akira Nakamura

Plot In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into...

6.3

26 votes

6.3

26 votes

You Only Live Twice

1967 · Movie · 117 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast Sean Connery · Donald Pleasence · Akiko Wakabayashi · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Agent 007 and the Japanese secret service ninja force must find and stop the true culprit of a series of spacejackings before nuclear war is provoked.

6.3

7K votes

6.3

7K votes

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

1974 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

6.3

55 votes

6.3

55 votes

Violent Fire (Deadly Outlaw: Rekka)

2002 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Riki Takeuchi · Ryôsuke Miki · Ken'ichi Endô · Mika Katsumura

Plot After Kunisada (Riki Takeuchi)'s Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend (Kenichi Endo) go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other...

6.2

96 votes

6.2

96 votes

The Happiness of the Katakuris

2001 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Miike

Cast Kenji Sawada · Keiko Matsuzaka · Shinji Takeda · Yoshiyuki Morishita

Plot The Katakuri family has just opened their guesthouse in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the...

6.2

1K votes

6.2

1K votes

The Secret of the Urn

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Hideo Gosha

Cast Kinnosuke Nakamura · Keiko Awaji · Isao Kimura · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an arm. Taking a...

6.2

28 votes

6.2

28 votes

The Bullet Train

1975 · Movie · 152 min. · Japan

Direction Junya Sato

Cast Ken Takakura · Sonny Chiba · Kei Yamamoto · Eiji Gô

Plot One of the Japanese Shinkansen "Bullet Trains" is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race...

6.0

87 votes

6.0

87 votes

6.0

25 votes

Osaka Castle Story (Daredevil in the Castle)

1961 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Inagaki

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Kyôko Kagawa · Yuriko Hoshi · Yoshiko Kuga

Plot Mohei is a wandering samurai, lost in grief and despair after his family is wiped out. He arrives in the city of Osaka, where the Toyotomi clan accepts him and...

5.8

33 votes

5.8

33 votes

The 7th Dawn

1964 · Movie · 123 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Lewis Gilbert

Cast William Holden · Capucine · Tetsurô Tanba · Susannah York

Plot Three friends who fought the Japanese in Malaya during World War II end up on opposing sides in the Communist insurgency following the war. Major Ferris (William Holden) becomes a...

5.8

208 votes

5.8

208 votes

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

1991 · Movie · 91 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Lam Nai-Choi

Cast Fan Siu-Wong · Fan Mei-Sheng · William Ho · Yukari Ôshima

Plot A young man with superhuman strength is incarcerated at a prison run by corrupt officials and seeks to use his martial arts to clean up the system.

5.8

4K votes

5.8

4K votes

5.8

105 votes

Killing Machine

1975 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

5.8

64 votes

5.8

64 votes