Hiroshi Tanaka

AKA:

2.1789

1934-01-01

Kyoto, Japan

Biography

Crew Roles

Crying Clown's Wedding

Screenplay

Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {52}

1970-04-21 6.9

Incident at Blood Pass

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of characters gather, including a gang set on stealing ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Isamu Otaguro

1974-04-27 6

Return of the Street Fighter

Martial artist Takuma Tsurugi returns to take on a Yakuza family that may be embezzling money from charities to finance their own operations. Both the police and the Yakuza find themselves battling Ts ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

1970-01-15 6.7

Zatoichi Meets Yojimbo

With a price on his head, Ichi seeks tranquillity in a favorite village. Since his last visit, it has fallen prey to Boss Masagoro, the son of a merchant rumored to have stolen gold from the shogunate ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Drama

Shinpachi Nagakura

1969-12-05 6.8

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Near the end of the nineteenth century, as the balance of power shifts from Shogunate towards the Emperor, Japan restlessly awaits the dawning of a new age. But not all are content...The Shinsengumi, ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History

2019-10-03 1

A Walk Home

The scene is set in the year 1944, wartime Fukuoka, Japan. The Japanese Imperial Army are cornered. They decided to send students to the battlefield. On his way home from a draft check, Kanji, who is ...

Genre :War

1974-04-13 6.588

Violent Streets

With a Kansai syndicate setting their sights on Tokyo, a former yakuza boss gets dragged back into a world of violence. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Action

Daisuke Kujirai

1977-06-17 6

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai: The Movie

Ryu obsessively pursues a CRIME agent who steals a powerful new explosive and takes control of a powerful supercar. This is a theatrical presentation of episode 7 of the J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai television ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Action, Adventure

Hanzo Hattori

1982-12-18 5.5

Ninja Wars

A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably g ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Gan Miyamoto

1976-05-29 5.5

Sister Street Fighter: Fifth Level Fist

Kiku Nakakawa, the only daughter of an old kimono shop owner in Kyoto, is enthusiastic about karate. To help her friend Michi avenge her brother, she sneaks into a movie studio in Kyoto where a drug d ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Takeda Shingen

1979-09-17 5.853

G.I. Samurai

A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun. ...

Genre :Action, Science Fiction, War

1970-04-04 0

Rebel Against Glory

Genre :Action

1969-09-10 6

Bullet Wound

Yuzo Kayama is an American-Japanese operative working for the US to uncover an arms deal between an American seller and Chinese communists, and to take out both parties. After almost getting assassina ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Kumasawa

1981-08-08 6.4

Roaring Fire

On his death bed the man who raised Joji reveals that he is not his real father and that Joji’s real parents died tragically in a plane crash. Shortly thereafter Joji goes to Japan is search of his si ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama, Comedy

1948-06-29 0

Haru ranman tanuki matsuri

Genre :Music, Fantasy

Yuki

1970-09-11 8

The Militarists

Genre :Drama, War

Commander Daisuke Kujirai / Joker

1978-03-17 8.2

J.A.K.Q. Dengekitai vs. Gorenger

While investigating a UFO in the Sky Ace, J.A.K.Q. is caught off guard by the return of Iron Claw, with the Big Four now leading the remnants of Crime and the Black Cross Army. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

1990-02-10 6.7

Yellow Fangs

Based on actual events that occurred in Hokkaido, Japan, 1915. Rimeinzu: Utsukushiki yuusha-tachi tells the story of a group of bear hunters that are tracking a 900 pound brown bear nicknamed Red Spot ...

Genre :Drama, Horror, Adventure

1969-12-06 0

The Resurrection of the Beast

Crime film released in 1969 ...

Genre :Crime, Mystery

Father

1977-03-26 0

Barefoot Gen: Explosion of Tears

First live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel. ...

Genre :Drama, War

1968-11-23 6

Sun Above, Death Below

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Person in Bank (voice)

1988-04-16 8.446

Grave of the Fireflies

In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move ...

Genre :Animation, Drama, War

1971-02-20 6.6

Miyamoto Musashi VI: Swords of Death

In the sixth and final episode Rentaro Mikuni steals the show as Baiken Shishido, Musashi's nemesis. Mikuni is the nominal villain of the film, but he is a devoted husband and father as well. He tries ...

Genre :Action, Drama, History

Thug

1965-04-03 8.115

Red Beard

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him to a small country clinic under the gruff doctor R ...

Genre :Drama

Mori

1974-11-14 4.3

The Pacific Connection

Ben is a farm boy who comes into conflict with the Evil Spanish Governor and his two sons. To assist in their oppression the Governor hires a Samurai to teach his son the Japanese Katana sword. To cou ...

Genre :Adventure, Action

1980-01-15 6

The Revolt

When a young soldier is killed while trying to prevent his younger sister, Kaoru, from being sold into a life of prostitution, his commander, Col. Miyagi, tries to honor his dying wish to rescue his s ...

Genre :War, Drama

1968-08-14 0

Imaginary Paradise

Comedy-fantasy about a salaryman (Tani) and his imaginary friends. A kind of Walter Mitty, Japanese-style. ...

Genre :Comedy, Fantasy

Horse Riding Samurai

1964-11-21 7.7

Onibaba

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever valuables they find. Both are devastated when they le ...

Genre :Horror

2nd Samurai

1971-09-15 6.87

Red Sun

In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the ...

Genre :Western

Fukusa / Uncle Fu

1982-06-23 7.7

Ninja in the Dragon's Den

A Japanese master of ninjutsu and a Chinese expert in kung fu, put their differences aside after their master is killed by a mortal enemy. ...

Genre :Action, Comedy

1972-12-16 6.7

Eight Men to Kill

The third movie following the exploits of bounty hunter Shikoro Ichibei. The theft of almost a half ton of gold from the shogunate's official mine threatens to bankrupt the government of Japan. Despit ...

Genre :Action

1975-01-29 0

Hanjiro, A Great Philanderer

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike and Satomi Kôe. ...

Genre :Drama

1974-10-05 7

Code of Wolves

In gangster-infested 1920s Yokohama, gambler Ishiguro gets in with the local gang -- but his view of life changes after the Great Kanto Earthquake. ...

Genre :Crime, Action

1966-02-25 7.7

The Sword of Doom

Ryunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate rule, has no moral code and kills without remorse. It’s a way of life that leads to madness. ...

Genre :Action, Drama

1972-05-27 0

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

A professional lone-wolf hitman comes to his blood brother's aid when his boss is brutally murdered by an unknown yakuza faction. ...

Genre :

Murao Koyata

1973-08-11 7.3

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in the Land of Demons

Ogami Itto is challenged by a quintet of warriors, each armed with one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one fifth of the information he needs to complete his assignment. ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller, Adventure

Jûzaemon Kashiwagi

1972-12-30 7.3

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart in Peril

Ogami Itto is hired to kill a tattooed female assassin and battles Retsudo, head of the Yagyu clan, and his son Gunbei. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure, Thriller

1972-01-22 7

A Scarred Life 2: Blood Will Tell

President of the territorial yakuza organization is being manipulated by a crooked leader in the military and some capitalists Ishikiri. The plan is to get multiple family of the organized crime group ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Hideo Kurokawa

1978-07-08 2

Erotic Liaisons

The story of a second rate detective asked to tail a mysterious woman who is cheating on her man. ...

Genre :Thriller, Mystery

1978-06-17 6.2

Winter's Flower

Kanno is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take ca ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1965-03-06 0

Taking the Castle

The Sengoku Era was coming to an end. The monopoly of the ever powerful shogun, Ieyasu Tokugawa, was at a near. Only one man was brave enough to stand in Ieyasu's way - A lone wolf samurai by the name ...

Genre :

Shichiro Hanayama

1978-09-09 7

Japanese Godfather: Conclusion

The three-film saga comes to a conclusion as three leaders of the underworld battle it out to determine who will become Don of Japan. ...

Genre :Drama, Crime

Kaiji Ryuzaki

1974-11-01 0

The Karate 2

This is the second film of the ZA KARATE trilogy (AKA BRONSON LEE CHAMPION). Tadashi Yamashita reprises his role as the Karate World Champion and must faces dozens of worldwide pretenders, such as the ...

Genre :Action

1971-10-30 7.4

The Wolves

After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resen ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

1975-04-05 7

Great Jailbreak

A group of prisoners attempts to break the Abashiri prison. This film can be considered a sequel to the Abashiri Bangaichi series, written and directed by Ishii Teruo. The friendship between two men ...

Genre :Action, Crime

1969-05-01 7.46

Goyokin

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

Genre :Drama, Action

Major Kobayashi

1967-08-03 7.2

Japan's Longest Day

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army ...

Genre :Drama, History, War

2020-08-30 0

Tokyo Miracle City: Gourmet Capital - Keeping Alive the Spirit of Tsukiji

In the series Tokyo Miracle City, we unravel the secrets behind some of the capital's most intriguing wonders. In part one, we delve into Tokyo's famed and tantalizing food culture, exploring the role ...

Genre :Documentary

1976-11-17 0

A Kawachi Rascal's Song

Even after turning 30, Matsutaro Tokuda is still single and spends his days driving a white taxi. He likes to gamble, although he doesn't have a talent for it. However, there was a woman that fell in ...

Genre :Action, Comedy

1984-01-12 0

Ningyo Sashichi: The Cat’s Golden Claws of Death

Sashichi is a dapper and handsome man. He is called a doll Sashichi because he is "a nice man like a doll." On top of that, he is a considerable young boss. This is a story in that Kanda solves the mu ...

Genre :Action, Drama, Mystery, History

1961-06-23 0

Hiroshi Moriya Sandogasa Series: I Want to Weep

A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and betrayals lead to a final showdown that shifts the balance ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

Tsutsumi

1975-07-05 6.8

The Bullet Train

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn ...