Tetsuro Tamba — Actor (164)
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King of the Gang (1967)
ギャングの帝王 IMDb TMDB
Yasuo Furuhata actor: Noboru Andō / Sonny Chiba …
other title: ギャングの帝王
The 11th and final film in the Gang series. Most of the films had different directors and cast, and were only connected by the title and Toei's marketing department. Unlike the early entries, which were jazzy capers, this final entry is a prototype jitsuroku yakuza film. Just back from the war, Noboru Ando leads a gang of war vets turned gangster in the US occupied streets of Tokyo. They get into a conflict with a Chinese gang as well as the military police. Tetsuro Tamba appears as a police chief trying to bring peace to the streets; 1st wave pinky violence star Masumi Tachibana is a girl grieving his dead gangster father.
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The Challenge (1962)
誇り高き挑戦 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kinji Fukasaku actor: Koji Tsuruta / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: Défi d'amour propre – Fierté agressive / 誇り高き挑戦 …
Journalist Kuroki is investigating clandestine arms sales to Southeast Asia. He discovers that the point man in an arms trade was also involved in the cover-up of a murder on an American base during the Allied Occupation. The film rolls along as a suspenseful thriller while offering a critique of political corruption, hypocrisy, and journalistic cowardice in postwar Japan.
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Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room (1969)
緋牡丹博徒 鉄火場列伝 IMDb TMDB
Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Sumiko Fuji / Kyōsuke Machida …
other title: Lady Yakuza 5 - Chronique des joueurs / Lady Yakuza Red Peony Gambler 5: Biographies of a Gambling Room …
Oryu the Red Peony, a wandering female yakuza on a soul-searching journey after the death of her father. After collecting her sickly follower from jail, she is taken in by a fishing village. Feeling indebted to their generosity, she stays to work for the village and promises to leave her yakuza ways behind. When a dispute breaks out for the gambling rights to a local festival, the villagers are harassed by a gang of thugs. When the harassment turns violent, Oryu must decide wither to keep her promise or protect the villagers.
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Be-In Bully High School (1990)
びんばりハイスクール IMDb TMDB
Norifumi Suzuki actor: Kaori Fujise / Riki Takeuchi …
other title: びんばりハイスクール
The prestigious private Sakuraryo Gakuen, which has a 90-year tradition, has now lost its glory to the ground, and the back organization of the athletic club, the male “Black Warriors” and the female “Red Warriors”, have made use of them. One girl, Oda Yoko, who has transferred to such a school, sneaks into the principal's room to find out the truth of the death of her best friend, Atsushi Katayama
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The Shogun's Vault (1964)
御金蔵破り WikiData IMDb TMDB
Teruo Ishii actor: Hashizo Ōkawa / Chiezo Kataoka …
other title: 御金蔵破り
Okawa Hashizo is 'Red Peony' Hanji who is thrown into a prison cell where he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault. A tough fighter, he has to show his ability in order to keep from getting himself killed by the prisoners, too. Co-starring some of the biggest name in movies at the time, including Kataoka Chiezo and Tanba Tetsuro this film is loaded with surprises. From the opening moments when prisoners carry out their own form of justice, killing a crooked ex-constable, it is clear that this is the work of a visionary filmmaker.
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Shogun's Ninja (1980)
忍者武芸帖 百地三太夫 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Norifumi Suzuki actor: Hiroyuki Sanada / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Les Tueurs noirs de l'empereur fou / El guerrero ninja …
In the middle of the 16th century, Hideyoshi, a power hungry warlord sets out to destroy the Momochi clan. He sends his war commander in search of the clan's hidden gold only to find that two daggers are the key to the hiding place of the treasured gold. Spanning decades, the quest for the missing daggers takes Shiranui through war and ancient tradition.
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Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive (1970)
めくらのお市　命貰います IMDb TMDB
Hirokazu Ichimura actor: Yōko Matsuyama / Yūki Meguro …
other title: めくらのお市　命貰います
Oichi the Blind helps a woman escape the clutches of a high government official to go off with the man she loves. The official puts a reward on her head of fifty gold pieces and soon a menagerie of bounty hunters are after her skin. Three of them band together to accomplish this, one an expert swordsman, another a huge judo master and the third is deadly with a chain. To escape, she heads for the fishing town of Itso but soon comes face to face with Sankuro, the swordsman...