Jun Tatara — Actor (29)
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Doctor's Day Off (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
本日休診
director: Minoru Shibuya actor: Eijirō Yanagi / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 本日休診 / Pas de consultations aujourd'hui
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
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The Bronze Devil (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
青銅の魔人
director: Toshimasa Hozumi actor: Eiji Wakasugi / Akihiko Katayama …
other title: 青銅の魔人
A steel-clad fiend terrorizes Tokyo, raiding clock shops. Detective Kogoro Akechi uncovers a map hidden in a prized clock, leading to a uranium deposit. He deduces the fiend is his nemesis, the Fiend with Twenty Faces.
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Policeman's Diary (1955) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
警察日記
director: Seiji Hisamatsu actor: Hisaya Morishige / Yūnosuke Itō …
other title: 警察日記 / Keisatsu Nikki …
Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.
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Police Precinct Part 5 (1957) [Movie] TMDB
警視庁物語　上野発五時三五分
director: Shinji Murayama actor: Yūji Hori / Takashi Kanda …
other title: 警視庁物語　上野発五時三五分
The fifth installment of the Metropolitan Police Department story series. This time, detectives from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department's First Investigative Division are once again in action, full of thrills and speed, in pursuit of the perpetrator of a mysterious murder that suddenly occurred at an auto race track.
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Tange Sazen: Mystery of the Twin Dragons (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
丹下左膳　怒濤篇
director: Sadatsugu Matsuda actor: Ryutaro Otomo / Yumiko Hasegawa …
other title: 丹下左膳　怒濤篇
In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden treasures. This is the most exciting film in the series, and contains some of the best action sequences of Otomo's distinguished career. Sazen is the strongest swordsman of his time, and his sense of honor and justice are called upon more than once to set things right.
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Ukyunosuke's Reverse Ichimonji Cut (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
紫右京之介逆一文字斬り
director: Yasuto Hasegawa actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Ryōhei Uchida …
other title: 紫右京之介逆一文字斬り
In this exciting sequel to the popular samurai-ninja movie Ukyunosuke On Patrol, his mission to avenge his father's death continues. His discovery of a mysterious note written by his father, Inspector Sena, held a clue to the inspector's murder 18 years ago. As Ukyunosuke continues further with his investigation into the conspiracy to uncover the truth behind his father's death, he must confront those eager to take his life. The great Okawa Hashizo shines in one of his signature roles bringing the ultimate conclusion of this epic tale of murder and revenge!
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The Hoodlum Priest (1967) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
やくざ坊主
director: Kimiyoshi Yasuda actor: Shintarō Katsu / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: Yakuza bozu / やくざ坊主
The first film in the 2 part series about Ryuzen, a renegade martial-arts priest who, in addition to breaking all the commandments against sex and gambling, opens his own gambling den in direct defiance of the local yakuza boss. Exciting action and a twisty plot this movie breaks new barriers in Japanese cinema. Katsu Shintaro is superb in one of his better non-Zato Ichi roles as he fights off the advances of a love-lorn woman and risks his life to defeat the powerful gambling boss who has a stranglehold on the town.
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The Street Without Sun (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
太陽のない街
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Sumiko Hidaka / Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi …
other title: 太陽のない街 / Taiyō no nai Machi …
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' steadfastness, which neither hunger nor violence could break. The heroine of this story actively participates in her colleagues' struggle against layoffs, oppression, and police brutality.
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Prey (1979) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
餌食
director: Kōji Wakamatsu actor: Yuya Uchida / Jun Tatara …
other title: 餌食
A rock singer who has returned to the U.S. approaches his former musician friends with the soulful sound of reggae that he encountered during his stay in the U.S. However, his friends lost their old energy and were busy chasing only the songs that would sell, and did not pay attention to reggae. Eventually, the lonely and violent rock singer turns to mass indiscriminate murder out of repugnance to the blurred times and humanity.
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Hawaiian Dream (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ハワイアン・ドリーム
director: Tōru Kawashima actor: Saburo Tokito / Johnny Ohkura …
other title: ハワイアン・ドリーム
Tatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and entered the country illegally for a reason. The two make a living by trafficking pakalolo – marijuana – under the pretext of selling tea leaves, but they are in a foreign land where they don't speak the language well. When they get busted by the chief of police, they're forced to make a deal and and help get a local crime boss masquerading as a benevolent celebrity arrested.