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Tatsuya Nakadai (仲代 é”矢 Nakadai Tatsuya, born Motohisa Nakadai December 13, 1932) is a Japanese leading film actor. He became a star after he was discovered working as a Tokyo shop clerk by filmmaker Masaki Kobayashi during the early 1950s. He became the favorite leading man of internationally-acclaimed director Akira Kurosawa after a well publicized fallout between Kurosawa and the legendary ToshirÅ Mifune. Beginning in the late 1950s, he worked with a number of Japan’s best-known filmmakers, starring or co-starring in five Kurosawa films, along with significant films made by Hiroshi Teshigahara (The Face of Another), Mikio Naruse (When a Woman Ascends the Stairs), Kihachi Okamoto (Kill! and Sword of Doom), Hideo Gosha (Goyokin), Shiro Toyoda (Portrait of Hell) and Kon Ichikawa (Enjo and Odd Obsession). Notably, his long-term collaboration with Masaki Kobayashi invites comparison to the working relationship between Akira Kurosawa and ToshirÅ Mifune. Nakadai was featured in 11 Kobayashi films including the The Human Condition trilogy, Harakiri, Samurai Rebellion and Kwaidan. The Thick-Walled Room marked Nakadai’s acting debut. His next role was a little noticed and uncredited one in Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai where he appears for a few seconds as a samurai wandering about town.
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Tatsuya Nakadai Biography / Wiki
| Name | Tatsuya Nakadai |
| Also Know | 仲代é”矢, Ð¢Ð°Ñ†ÑƒÑ Ðакадай, 仲代元久, Tatsuya Nakadaki |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Tokyo, Japan |
| Date of Birth | 1932-12-13 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 89 |
| Deathday |
Tatsuya Nakadai Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| The Human Condition I: No Greater Love | Kaji | 1959-01-15 | After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria… |
| Ran | Lord Hidetora Ichimonji | 1985-06-01 | With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare’s King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic … |
| Hachiko | Shujiro Ueno | 1987-08-01 | The tragic, true story about HachikÅ, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno, even after Ueno’s death…. |
| Kagemusha | Shingen Takeda / Kagemusha | 1980-04-26 | Akira Kurosawa’s lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid at… |
| The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity | Kaji | 1959-11-20 | Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts ag… |
| The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer | Kaji | 1961-01-28 | After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life,… |
| The Wolves | Seji Iwahashi | 1971-10-30 | 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… |
| The Face of Another | Mr. Okuyama | 1966-07-15 | A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality…. |
| Harakiri | Hanshiro Tsugumo | 1962-09-15 | Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo HanshirÅ enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a pla… |
| Hunter in the Dark | Gomyo Kiyoemon | 1979-06-17 | Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to… |
| Kill! | Genta | 1968-06-22 | A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer… |
| Goyokin | Magobei Wakizaka | 1969-05-01 | A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place…. |
| Illusion of Blood | Tamiya Iemon | 1965-07-25 | The ghost of a samurai’s wife takes revenge on her husband…. |
| The Sword of Doom | Ryunosuke Tsukue | 1966-02-25 | 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 … |
| Portrait of Hell | Yoshihide | 1969-11-18 | The story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai) and his Japanese patron, the cruel and egotistical da… |
| Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron | Kumokiri Nizaemon | 1978-07-01 | Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to … |
| Inn of Evil | Sadashichi | 1971-09-11 | The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolat… |
| Blood End | Sentaro | 1969-11-15 | BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan’s golden era of the late 1960’s. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best roles, this is the… |
| Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather | Masagoro Kiryuin – Onimasa | 1982-06-05 | Onimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties conflict with his self-image as a chivalrous samurai. H… |
| Japan’s Tragedy | Fujio Murai | 2012-10-05 | In 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with the earthquake. Unemployed widower Fujio Murai’s fami… |
| I Am a Cat | Kushami | 1975-05-31 | Nakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens of films and televisions shows. Viewers who are espe… |
| The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan | Naojiro Kataoka | 1970-04-18 | An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo’s red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws…. |
| The Age of Assassins | Shinji Kikyo | 1967-02-04 | A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat miraculously… |
| Rise, Fair Sun | 1973-10-27 | Though a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the unspoiled region in which they live into a land developme… | |
| Fireflies in the North | Takeshi Tsukigata | 1984-09-01 | Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced t… |
| Family without a Dinner Table | Nobuyuki Kidoji | 1985-11-01 | This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire… |
| The Corporation | 1976-08-14 | Drama and intrigue about defense contracts and corruption…. | |
| Port Arthur | Maresuke Nogi | 1980-08-02 | Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified positions in the world, during the Russo-Japanese War of (… |
| Cash Calls Hell | Oida | 1966-01-15 | Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assass… |
| Solar Eclipse | Yasuo Hoshino, the Chief Cabinet Secretary | 1975-09-06 | When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot…. |
| Atami Murder Case | Denbei Nikaido | 1986-06-07 | Chief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the Metropolitan Police Department. Transferred to Denbei’… |
| Lear on the Shore | Kuwahata Chokichi | 2017-06-03 | Kuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he’s suspected to be suffering from dementia. He is betrayed by his older daughter, Yukiko, her h… |
| The Blue Beast | 1960-06-26 | Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral dra… | |
| The Last Judgment | 1965-01-01 | The last judgment…. | |
| The Beast Shall Die | Kunihiko Date | 1959-06-09 | A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mot… |
| A Duel Tale | 2015-10-31 | Nakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji Sanosuke, and elderly samurai forced to pick up his swo… | |
| Tatsuya Nakadai on The Human Condition | 2009-09-08 | In this new video interview with Tatsuya Nakadai, conducted in 2009, the screen legend discusses his landmark role as Kaji in THE HUMAN CONDITION…. | |
| The Return | 2019-11-04 | Tatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant adaptation of a story by novelist Shuhei Fujisawa. A travel… | |
| Willful Murder | Yashiro | 1981-11-07 | The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by numerous layoffs, strikes and shutd… |
| To Dance with the White Dog | Eisuke Nakamoto | 2002-04-13 | … |
| Michi | Seiji Tajima | 1986-09-06 | … |
| Sleeping Village | (narration) | 2019-02-02 | In 1961, a spectacular criminal case shocks Japan: at what became known as the “Nabari Poison Wine†incident, five people lose their lives at a vi… |
| 13 Assassins | 1990-03-28 | In between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV produced a version for TV. Starring Nakadai Tatsuya and N… | |
| Ant Hell War | 1964-04-29 | The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima… | |
| Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho | 1988-09-17 | … | |
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| Sanjuro | Hanbei Muroto | 1962-01-01 | Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed “Sanjuro.” In this companion piece and … |
| Yojimbo | Unosuke, gunfighter | 1961-04-25 | A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the loca… |
| High and Low | Chief Detective Tokura | 1963-03-01 | An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur’s son is kidnapped and held for ransom…. |
| Tenchu! | Hampeita Takechi | 1969-08-09 | A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage…. |
| Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival | Ronin | 1970-08-12 | Zatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the Yakuza and a jealous husband…. |
| Conflagration | Tokari | 1958-09-22 | Learning of his family’s collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological distre… |
| Haru’s Journey | Tadao Nakai | 2010-05-22 | Stuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao’s grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo, a trip Tadao is reluctant to make…. |
| Battle of the Japan Sea | Major Genjiro Akashi | 1969-08-01 | Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a… |
| Heat Wave | Tsunejiro Murai | 1991-02-09 | Rin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she’s grown up in the Kosugi household and has fallen victim to gambling herself…. |
| Love Under the Crucifix | Ukon Takayama | 1962-06-03 | The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a… |
| Safari 5000 | 1969-07-19 | It’s about a Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) and his rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). G… | |
| Basara: Princess Goh | Oribe Furuta | 1992-04-11 | Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no RikyÅ«, the former tea master, was ordered to commit su… |
| Belladonna of Sadness | The Devil | 1973-06-30 | An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her husband’s lives. After she’s eventually banished from h… |
| Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict | Yagyu Retsudo | 1993-02-06 | A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) is the target of a plot by the evil Yagyu Clan to take away his posit… |
| The Inheritance | Kikuo Furukawa | 1962-02-16 | On his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among his three illegitimate children, whose whereabouts are … |
| Three Yakuza | 1965-05-22 | A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each pa… | |
| A Woman’s Life | 1963-11-16 | A woman remember’s her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son…. | |
| Jubaku: Spellbound | Hideaki Sasaki | 1999-09-18 | When a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin to dig, breaking open a money-and-favours scandal tha… |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: High and Low | Interviewee | 2002-10-25 | Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “High and Low” (1963)…. |
| Pressure of Guilt | 1963-02-17 | … | |
| Pilgrimage at Night | 1959-09-20 | Adapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a full-length novel of the same name published by Shiga Naoya … | |
| The Pass: Last Days of the Samurai | Makino Tadayuki | 2022-06-17 | The last year of Ryotaro Shiba’s life, as he tried to achieve peace and independence without joining the armies of East and West…. |
| Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate | 2013-02-16 | Masaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died from drinking poisoned wine in a small village gather… | |
| Hi no tori | 1956-06-14 | Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn’t disappointed by the news of her father Enmy’s sudden death, and she perform… | |
| Odd Obsession | Kimura | 1959-06-23 | A middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he cannot become aroused. His solution involves the introducti… |
| Daughters, Wives and a Mother | Shingo Kuroki | 1960-05-21 | Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former in-law… |
| Black River | Jo | 1957-10-23 | The story follows a university student who moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict … |
| Immortal Love | Heibei | 1961-09-16 | The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner’s son, who has returned from the war with a… |
| The Family | Teppei Manpyo | 1974-01-26 | Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki…. |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Yojimbo | Interviewee | 2002-10-25 | Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Yojimbo” (1961)…. |
| Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo | Sazen Tange | 1982-10-22 | A re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982…. |
| Faraway Sunset | Kobayashi | 1992-07-04 | Faraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the agent that cause syphilis, and for his relentless searc… |
| Teenage Sazae | 1957-12-28 | Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color…. | |
| Sugata Sanshiro | Yano | 1977-10-29 | The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means o… |
| When a Woman Ascends the Stairs | Kenichi Komatsu, the manager | 1960-01-15 | Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she’s a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life’s vicious cycle: acting cheerful ar… |
| Vengeance for Sale | Umetaro Katakura | 2002-02-16 | In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Suker… |
| The Ambitious | Shintaro Nakaoka | 1970-02-14 | The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan… |
| The Battle of Okinawa | Colonel Hiromichi Yahara | 1971-08-14 | The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army … |
| The Other Woman | Minami | 1961-05-30 | In “The Other Woman” the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable Gi… |
| Human Revolution II | 1976-06-19 | Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference…. | |
| As the Clouds Scatter | 1961-07-09 | A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil…. | |
| The Naked Sun | 1958-10-01 | A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they ha… | |
| Taikoki | (Narrator) | 1987-01-01 | Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is one of the pivotal figures of the Sengoku period…. |
| Before The Leaves Fall | Kenichiro Miya | 2015-05-23 | An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting…. |
| Sazae-san | 1956-12-12 | An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho’s Sazae-san series…. | |
| The Human Revolution | 1973-09-08 | … | |
| The Wicked City | Daishu (Yuen Tai Chung) | 1992-01-01 | Based on the popular Japanese series of novels, The Wicked City is about a futuristic Hong Kong on the verge of a take over by the Reptoids—ruthless… |
| Like Asura | Kotaro Takezawa | 2003-11-08 | The four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a private detective to investigate…. |
| Giovanni’s Island | Junpei Senou | 2014-02-22 | In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of Shikotan became part of the Sakhalin Oblast… and … |
| Fort Graveyard | Sakuma | 1965-09-18 | Charged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the last desperate days of the Second World War. His comm… |
| After the Rain | Tsuji Gettan | 1999-10-25 | A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst … |
| Will to Conquer | 1970-10-17 | The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan’s feudal age with the 18… | |
| A Town and a Tall Chimney | 2019-06-22 | Japan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of progress. In X, a farming village in Ibaraki Prefecture, t… | |
| Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor | Yohei Tachibana | 2016-10-05 | Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors’ office. He is currently b… |
| Samurai Rebellion | Tatewaki Asano | 1967-05-27 | The mother of a feudal lord’s only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to acce… |
| Untamed Woman | Kimura | 1957-05-28 | A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive for… |
| The Legend of Sayo | 1982-12-17 | Sayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way back she sees a large cherry tree which is infamous for… | |
| The Human Bullet | Narrator | 1968-10-22 | A soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his dedication to the army has never faltered. However, as the… |
| Duel at Fort Ezo | Daizennokami Honjo | 1970-02-09 | 1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count’s… |
| A. K. | Self | 1985-05-20 | In 1985, Chris Marker traveled to Japan to attend the filming of Ran, directed by Akira Kurosawa. Marker analyzes the progress of filming; the infinit… |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Kagemusha | Interviewee | 2002-10-25 | Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Kagemusha” (1980)…. |
| Return from the River Kwai | Major Harada | 1989-04-07 | A group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river Kwai in Thailand. Just when the bridge is ready, an Ame… |
| Kurosawa: The Last Emperor | Himself | 1999-01-01 | A profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa…. |
| Battle Anthem | 1983-06-04 | The story of Japan’s victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait…. | |
| Wish Upon a Star | Takanori Wakamiya | 2005-08-26 | Japanese TV film… |
| East Meets West | Kaishu Katsu | 1995-08-12 | A disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a navy official are about to land in San Francisco when a… |
| Chibusa o daku musume tachi | 1962-10-07 | Japanese drama…. | |
| Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: Sanjuro | Interviewee | 2002-10-25 | Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on “Sanjuro” (1962)…. |
| Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS | Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.) | 2002-06-16 | A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an electronics employee who rallies his coworkers to save their j… |
| The Phoenix | Jingi the Conqueror, leader of the Takamagahara | 1978-08-12 | This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The Yamatai… |
| Gun Woman | Hamazaki | 2014-02-28 | A brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate assassin, implanting gun parts in her body that she mus… |
| Zatoichi: The Last | Tendo | 2010-05-29 | A blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back into battle…. |
| Kwaidan | Mi nokichi (segment “Yuki-Onna”) | 1964-12-29 | Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning “ghost story,” this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money wit… |
| Until the Break of Dawn | Sadayuki Akiyama | 2012-11-10 | High school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a “tsunagu,” an intermediary for people who want to reach the dead…. |
| The Human Trust | Nobuhiro Sasakura | 2013-10-19 | A professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted from the Bank of Japan and supposedly stashed away by … |
| The Tale of The Princess Kaguya | Charcoal-maker old man (voice) | 2013-11-23 | Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows rapidly into an exquisite young lady. The mysterious yo… |
| Legacy of the 500,000 | Mitsura Gunji | 1963-04-18 | During World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the bay of Manille. Former soldier Takeichi Matsuo is now… |
| Yamato | 2005-12-17 | Directed by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, “Yamato” has a framing story set in the present day and uses flashbacks to tell the story of … | |
| Kurosawa | Himself | 2000-12-24 | Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa… |
| Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die! | James Elfego | 1968-03-28 | A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him…. |
| Oracion | Heihachiro Wagu | 1988-07-23 | Set on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is given the name Oracion or “prayer”. When Oracion is grown,… |
| Admiral Yamamoto | Narrator (voice) | 1968-08-14 | As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet…. |
| All About Marriage | Akira Nakayama | 1958-05-26 | Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo (“good wife, wise mother”) pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister…. |
| Space Battleship Yamato – Final Chapter | Narrator | 1983-03-19 | The Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of galaxies. The Bolar Federation worlds including Planet Bolar a… |
| Battle Cry | Hijikata Toshizo | 1975-03-14 | During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial t… |
| Listen to My Heart | Kyozo Hayami | 2009-11-10 | A radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, “Love Letters from the Drawer” to assist people who need an extra push to send out their simple yet very … |
| Kojiro | Musashi Miyamoto | 1967-04-01 | Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi (Tat… |
| The Gate of Youth | 1975-02-15 | Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke’s infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly every… | |
| Queen Bee | Ginzo Daidoji | 1978-02-11 | To solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family’s country estate, family secrets and lies dating ba… |
| Journey | 1967-11-12 | … | |
| Four Days of Snow and Blood | Sugiyama | 1989-06-17 | Based on the “2.26 Incident”, an attempted coup d’état in Japan 1936, launched by radical ultra-nationalist parts of the military. Several leading po… |
| The Daphne | 1966-10-01 | Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their long-suffer… | |
| Get ’em All | Tsubota | 1960-11-29 | Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one…. |
| The Thick-Walled Room | 1956-10-31 | A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a wh… | |
| Blood Type: Blue | Minami | 1978-11-23 | UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new “blue… |
| Japan’s Longest Day | Narrator (voice) | 1967-08-12 | Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies… |
| Seven Samurai | Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited) | 1954-04-26 | A samurai answers a village’s request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six … |
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