Takahiro Tamura — Actor (59)
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Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970)
Tora! Tora! Tora!
director: Toshio Masuda / Kinji Fukasaku … actor: Martin Balsam / Sō Yamamura …
other title: Tora ! Tora ! Tora !
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words used by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.
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She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum (1955)
野菊の如き君なりき
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Noriko Arita / Shinji Tanaka …
other title: Comme une fleur des champs / Ella era como un crisantemo salvaje …
On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
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Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗
director: Tomu Uchida actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Ken Takakura …
other title: 宮本武蔵 巌流島の決斗 / Le Duel de l'aube …
The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi (still doggedly trying to defeat Musashi), and even the return of Priest Takuan (the man responsible for his journey towards enlightenment). But most of all, the boastful, long-haired and long-sworded Sasaki Kojiro.
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Hanzo the Razor: Sword of Justice (1972)
御用牙
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Yukiji Asaoka …
other title: Hanzo the Razor – Sword of Justice / Hanzo The Razor 1 : L'épée de la justice …
Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries. His first adventure sees him investigating his superior officer's mistress, whom he suspects of having ties with a reputed criminal on the loose.
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Sleeping Man (1996)
眠る男
director: Kōhei Oguri actor: Ahn Sung-ki / Koji Yakusho …
other title: 眠る男 / L'Homme qui dort …
Ever since an accident in the mountains outside town, Takuji's slept in a coma; his neighbors care for him as new events occur every day.
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The Ninja Hunt (1964) TMDB
忍者狩り
director: Tetsuya Yamanouchi actor: Jūshirō Konoe / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 忍者狩り
Four ninja are hired to fight against the Shogunate’s plot to abolish the Gamo Clan, the regional barons struggling to reinstate their young heir Tanemaru as their Lord.
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The Last Samurai (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
狼よ落日を斬れ
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Hideki Takahashi / Ken Ogata …
other title: Les derniers samouraïs / 狼よ落日を斬れ
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.
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The River Fuefuki (1960) WikiData IMDb TMDB
笛吹川
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Takahiro Tamura / Hideko Takamine …
other title: 笛吹川 / La Rivière Fuefuki …
In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
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Sleepy Eyes of Death 10: Hell Is a Woman (1968) IMDb TMDB
眠狂四郎女地獄
director: Tokuzō Tanaka actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 眠狂四郎女地獄 / Nemuri Kyoshiro 10 Hell is a Woman
Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is the textbook example of a bad idea - especially when the collateral damage starts to tick him off.
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Stakeout (1958)
張込み
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Minoru Ōki / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 張込み / Le Guet-apens …
Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame.
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Red Lion (1969) IMDb TMDB
赤毛
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Toshirō Mifune / Shima Iwashita …
other title: 赤毛 / Akage – Red Lion …
Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny.
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Revenge (1964) WikiData IMDb TMDB NeoDB
仇討
director: Tadashi Imai actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: La Vengeance / Venganza de sangre …
An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The situation snowballs out of control, leading to a deadly duel and political fallout which threatens the entire clan. Declared mentally unstable by the corrupt authority, Shinpachi begins his descent into true insanity…
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Shinobi no mono 7: Mist Saizo Strikes Back (1966) WikiData IMDb TMDB
忍びの者 新・霧隠才蔵
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Takahiro Tamura …
other title: 忍びの者 新・霧隠才蔵 / Shinobi No Mono 7 Mist Saizo Strikes Back
[Period covered: 1616] Kirigakure Saizo returns for the final time as he sets out to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu in order to avenge the death of Lord Sanada Yukimura. But first he must contend with Ieyasu’s own ninja group led by the powerful Fuma Daijuro, who has a score to settle with the men of Iga that dates back 280 years to the war between the Genji and the Heike at the Battle of Dan-no-Ura. Tremendous fighting and great plot twists highlight this exceptional look into the lives of the mysterious ninja of Japan.
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Twenty-Four Eyes (1954)
二十四の瞳
director: Keisuke Kinoshita actor: Hideko Takamine / Hideki Gôko …
other title: Ventiquattro occhi / Vierundzwanzig Augen …
From 1928 to 1946, the lives of 12 young people and their school teacher in a poor Japanese village are profoundly affected by historical events and personal circumstances.