Tatsuya Nakadai
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Tatsuya Nakadai (仲代 達矢 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 Toshirō 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 Toshirō 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tatsuya Nakadai, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Seven Samurai
as Samurai Wandering through Town (uncredited)A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town...
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Ran
as Lord Hidetora IchimonjiWith Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular...
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The Tale of The Princess Kaguya
as Charcoal-maker Old Man (voice)Found inside a shining stalk of bamboo by an old bamboo cutter and his wife, a tiny girl grows...
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High and Low
as Chief Detective TokuraIn the midst of an attempt to take over his company, a powerhouse executive is hit with a huge...
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Sanjuro
as Hanbei MurotoToshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced,...
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Samurai Rebellion
as Tatewaki AsanoThe mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The...
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Harakiri
as Hanshiro TsugumoDown-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi....
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Yojimbo
as Unosuke, gunfighterA nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two...
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
as KajiKaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his...
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Kagemusha
as Shingen Takeda / KagemushaAkira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to...
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Kwaidan
as Minokichi (segment "The Woman of the Snow")Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four...
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The Sword of Doom
as Ryunosuke TsukueRyunosuke, a gifted swordsman plying his trade during the turbulent final days of Shogunate...
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Gun Woman
as HamazakiA brilliant doctor on a quest for revenge buys a young woman and trains her to be the ultimate...
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Yamato
as uncreditedDirected by Junya Sato and based on a book by Jun Henmi, "Yamato" has a framing story set in the...
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Hachiko
as Shujiro UenoThe tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno,...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as KajiAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
as KajiAfter the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria....
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After the Rain
as Tsuji GettanA group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy...
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Belladonna of Sadness
as The Devil (voice)An evil feudal lord rapes a village girl on her wedding night and proceeds to ruin her and her...
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Fireflies in the North
as Takeshi TsukigataSet in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal...
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Wicked City
as DaishuThe Wicked City is about a futuristic Hong Kong on the verge of a take over by the Reptoids -...
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The Face of Another
as Mr. OkuyamaA businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask...
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Giovanni's Island
as Older Junpei Senou (voice)In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island...
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When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
as Kenichi KomatsuKeiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow....
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Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
as James ElfegoA man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the...
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Japan's Longest Day
as Narrator (voice)Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military...
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Love Under the Crucifix
as Ukon TakayamaThe basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both...
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Queen Bee
as Ginzo DaidojiTo solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji...
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The Inheritance
as Kikuo FurukawaOn his deathbed, a wealthy businessman announces that his fortune is to be split equally among...
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Odd Obsession
as KimuraA middle-aged husband of a younger woman finds her youth intimidating to the point that he...
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Port Arthur
as Maresuke NogiDepicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified...
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Heat Wave
as Tsunejiro MuraiRin Jyoshima lost her father to death-by-gambling; years later, she's grown up in the Kosugi...
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Kill!
as GentaA pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become...
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Blood Type: Blue
as MinamiUFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned...
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Inn of Evil
as SadashichiThe story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly...
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Battle Cry
as Hijikata ToshizoDuring the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal...
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Goyokin
as Magobei WakizakaA guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.
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Four Days of Snow and Blood
as SugiyamaBased on the "2.26 Incident", an attempted coup d'état in Japan 1936, launched by radical...
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Admiral Yamamoto
as Narrator (voice)As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto...
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The Thick-Walled Room
as uncreditedA group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves...
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival
as RoninZatoichi is mentored by the blind leader of a secret organization as he contends with both the...
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Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
as ShindonUshinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film...
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Immortal Love
as HeibeiThe year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the...
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The Other Woman
as MinamiIn "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have...
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The Battle of Okinawa
as Colonel Hiromichi YaharaThe Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The...
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Conflagration
as TokariLearning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the...
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Final Yamato
as NarratorThe Galman Empire is destroyed but the planet Galmania is not, by a chance collision of...
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Return from the River Kwai
as Major HaradaA group of war prisoners has spilt blood, sweat and tears to construct a bridge over the river...
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Basara: The Princess Goh
as Oribe FurutaFuruta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no...
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Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
as Masagoro Kiryuin - OnimasaOnimasa is the egocentric boss of a small yakuza clan on Shikoku Island, whose criminal duties...
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Vengeance for Sale
as Umetaro KatakuraIn a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in...
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Dawn of a New Day: The Man Behind VHS
as Matsushita (Matsushita Denki Co.)A Japanese film that tells the tale of the birth of VHS. It follows Kagatani Shizuo, an...
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The Ambitious
as Shintaro NakaokaThe story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa...
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Willful Murder
as YashiroThe president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train...
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Jubaku: Spellbound
as Hideaki SasakiWhen a major bank is caught paying off a corporate extortionist, the media and prosecutors begin...
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Tenchu!
as Hanpei TakechiA ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the...
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Battle of the Japan Sea
as Major Genjiro AkashiJapan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the...
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Fort Graveyard
as SakumaCharged with insubordination for punching a superior, Sergeant Kosugi is shipped to China in the...
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Legacy of the 500,000
as Mitsura GunjiDuring World War II, Japan sends gold to the Phillipines. After the war, the gold is lost in the...
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I Am a Cat
as KushamiNakadai is an English teacher at a local school. He’s put-upon like the patron figure of dozens...
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Untamed Woman
as KimuraA woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a...
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Black River
as JoA university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The...
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Oban kanketsu hen
as Shin DonUshinosuke returns to Tokyo with new ambitions. Fourth and final part of the film adaptation of...
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A Duel Tale
as uncreditedNakadai Tatsuya, Japan’s greatest living actor, gives the performance of a lifetime as Shoji...
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The Human Bullet
as NarratorA soldier has been in the Japanese military for the entirety of WWII, and in that time, his...
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The Wolves
as Seji IwahashiAfter going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai)...
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Ôban
as Shin DonA young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader....
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Hunter in the Dark
as Gomyo KiyoemonYataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill....
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The Law of Hell
as uncreditedAt a restaurant called Anrakutei on an island is a wasteland surrounded by moat and swamp. The...
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Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
as Kumokiri NizaemonKumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a...
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The Beast Shall Die
as Kunihiko DateA promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following...
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Until the Break of Dawn
as Sadayuki AkiyamaHigh school student Ayumi is trained by his grandmother to act as a "tsunagu," an intermediary...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'High and Low'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Zatoichi: The Last
as TendoA blind master swordsman attempts to lead a quiet life with his wife but he is provoked back...
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Solar Eclipse
as Yasuo Hoshino, the Chief Cabinet SecretaryWhen bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion,...
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Through the Mist
as (Archive Footage)A biopic of the late musician Dédé Fortin, the singer, songwriter, and founder of a very popular...
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The Empty Table
as Nobuyuki KidojiOne year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a...
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Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
as Shin donUshinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. ...
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A. K.
as SelfAn intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese...
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The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
as Naojiro KataokaAn outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of...
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Three Yakuza
as uncreditedA tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits...
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The Phoenix
as Jingi the Conqueror, leader of the TakamagaharaThis extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is...
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Like Asura
as Kotaro TakezawaThe four Takezawa sisters discover that their father has an illegitimate child so they hire a...
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13 Assassins
as uncreditedIn between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV...
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A Woman's Life
as uncreditedA woman remember's her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
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East Meets West
as Kaishu KatsuA disgraced warrior planning the murder of a Japanese diplomat, and a ninja in the employ of a...
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Daughters, Wives and a Mother
as Shingo KurokiSanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million...
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All About Marriage
as Akira NakayamaUltra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother")...
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Life Work of Akira Kurosawa
as SelfAcclaimed filmmaker Akira Kurosawa has been misunderstood. Despite his public perception an a...
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Battle Anthem
as uncreditedThe story of Japan's victory in the battle of Tsushima Strait.
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Get 'em All
as TsubotaGang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother...
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Blood End
as SentaroSentaro is been severely beaten for his defiance of the government and the high taxes during a...
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Safari 5000
as uncreditedA Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict
as Yagyu RetsudoA noble samurai serving the Shogun as 'Kogi Kaishaku-nin' (Official Executioner) is the target...
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Isao Takahata and His Tale of the Princess Kaguya
as SelfFor his first film in fourteen years animation director Isao Takahata embarked on a visually...
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Murder of the Inugami Clan
as Sahei InugamiInugami Sahei, who built up the wealth of the Inugami Clan, passes away, leaving a will with...
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Oración
as Heihachiro WaguSet on a quiet ranch in Hokkaido. One day, a colt is born from a legendary bloodline. It is...
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The Fir Trees Remain
as uncreditedThe 21-year-old feudal on Sendai, Tsunamune Date, was prohibited to go out in the daytime for...
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Lear on the Shore
as Kuwahata ChokichiKuwahata Chokichi used to be a famous actor, but now he's suspected to be suffering from...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Sanjuro'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Haru's Journey
as Tadao NakaiStuck in a fishing village in Hokkaido, Tadao's grand-daughter Haru is desperate to visit Tokyo,...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Yojimbo'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Portrait of Hell
as YoshihideThe story, set in the Heian era, depicts the conflict between Korean painter Yoshihide (Nakadai)...
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Tatsuya Nakadai on 'The Human Condition'
as SelfIn this new video interview with Tatsuya Nakadai, conducted in 2009, the screen legend discusses...
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Promise: The Nabari Poisoned Wine Case, The Life of a Death-row Inmate
as uncreditedMasaru Okunishi is a prisoner who has been on death-row for over 40 years. In 1961, 5 women died...
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Illusion of Blood
as Tamiya IemonThe ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.
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Cash Calls Hell
as OidaBefore leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in...
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
as SelfA profile and history of film director Akira Kurosawa.
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Duel at Fort Ezo
as Daizennokami Honjo1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots...
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The Return
as uncreditedTatsuya Nakadai, the world’s greatest living actor, returns to the screen in a brilliant...
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Listen to My Heart
as Kyozo HayamiA radio DJ, Mai starts a new program called, "Love Letters from the Drawer" to assist people who...
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The Family
as Teppei ManpyoSet in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for...
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Japan's Tragedy
as Fujio MuraiIn 2010, 31,560 people ended their own lives and about 20,000 people died or went missing with...
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The Gate of Youth
as uncreditedMainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his...
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The Daphne
as uncreditedFour sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two...
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Sazae-san
as NorisukeAn adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.
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Rise, Fair Sun
as uncreditedThough a farmer and his fellow villagers in this Japanese film resist the effort to turn the...
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Faraway Sunset
as KobayashiFaraway Sunset tells the story of the famed bacteriologist who is known to have discovered the...
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The Naked Sun
as uncreditedA young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the...
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The Age of Assassins
as Shinji KikyoA nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the...
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A Town and a Tall Chimney
as uncreditedJapan in 1910, industrialization is unstoppable and devastating entire areas in the name of...
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Akira Kurosawa: It Is Wonderful to Create: 'Kagemusha'
as SelfDocumentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one...
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Henkan kōshōjin: Itsuka, Okinawa o torimodosu
as NarratorIn 2010, while covering the issue of the "secret agreement" at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,...
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Great evil does not go to sleep: The counterattack of the special investigation unit prosecutor
as Yohei TachibanaShinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the...
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Kojiro
as Musashi MiyamotoSasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with...
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Kin chan no Cinema Jack
as uncreditedKin chan no Cinema Jack is an anthology film starring Yuen Biao and produced by Jackie Chan
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The Life and Love of Kenji Miyazawa
as Seijiro MiyazawaA biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji...
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Shadow Hunters
as uncreditedThe government in Edo era is suffering from a financial crisis. It hires "Kage" to provoke the...
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Atami Murder Case
as Denbei NikaidoChief Detective KIMURA Denbei, fondly referred to as Smoky Denbei, is a legendary figure at the...
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The Human Trust
as Nobuhiro SasakuraA professional scammer is hired by a wealthy young businessman to find a hidden treasure looted...
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The Legend of Sayo
as uncreditedSayo has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday when she attends a temple festival. On her way...
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As the Clouds Scatter
as uncreditedA provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he...
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Taikoki
as (Narrator)Rising from the lowliest of country samurai to the heights of power as Taiko, Toyotomi Hideyoshi...
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Before The Leaves Fall
as Kenichiro MiyaAn elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was...
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Sleeping Village
as (narration)In 1961, a spectacular criminal case shocks Japan: at what became known as the “Nabari Poison...
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Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo
as Sazen TangeA re-make of the classic story made for television in 1982.
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Pilgrimage at Night
as uncreditedAdapted by Yasumi Toshio and directed by Toyoda Shiro, this is a literary work based on a...
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Human Revolution II
as uncreditedDramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.
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Making of Ran
as SelfBehind the scenes of Akira Kurosawa's Ran, produced by Kurosawa Productions.
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Magistrate of the Floating World
as uncreditedKodaira Mochizuki has come from Edo to keep Horisoto secure.
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The Blue Beast
as uncreditedTatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses...
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Will to Conquer
as uncreditedThe struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa...
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Ant Hell War
as uncreditedThe sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima
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Teenage Sazae
as uncreditedAdaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
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Phoenix
as uncreditedEmi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the...
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Samurai Banners
as uncreditedFūrin Kazan was the 46th NHK Taiga drama beginning on January 7, 2007. It was aired throughout...
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Crying Out Love, in the Center of the World
as Matsumoto Kentaro"I thought I might be using a lifetime's happiness in a moment. I was that happy and she was...
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Shin Heike Monogatari
as Taira no KiyomoriSet at the end of the 12th century when several wars for control of Japan disrupted a long era...
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A Sinner's Lie
as Kenzo HanedaSerious legal thriller starring Hideaki Ito which depicts the glory and the darkness of an...
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Suna no Utsuwa
as 今西栄太郎Two police investigate the death of a corpse found in a train yard.
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Pinwheel Hamakichi's Spell
as uncreditedNezu no Hamakichi used to be a renowned detective. He had lost his job and been banished from...
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Kinagashi Bugyō
as uncreditedKoheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead...
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Momi no Ki wa Nokotta: Ranshin
as uncreditedA human drama based on the "Date Riots".
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