Kunie Tanaka — Actor (48)
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Take Me Out to the Snowland (1987) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
私をスキーに連れてって
director: Yasuo Baba actor: Tomoyo Harada / Hiroshi Mikami …
other title: 私をスキーに連れてって
Fumio Yano is an unassuming young businessman in the ski wear line. His own skiing ability is close to professional level, and he assists a former world champion, Tayama, on the sales team. Fumio meets and falls in love with Yu, a young secretary, but initially finds it hard to express his true feelings for her. A St Valentine's Day fashion show provides an unexpected backdrop for crisis resolution, and a mad scramble ensues to beat the clock and make it to a neighboring ski resort in time for the press and photographers. A pack of chocolate is a symbol of true love...
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300 Million Thief: Statute of Limitations (1975) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
実録三億円事件 時効成立
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Mayumi Ogawa / Yusuke Okada …
other title: 実録三億円事件 時効成立
In this retelling of an infamous unsolved heist, a couple tries to outlast the statute of limitations after successfully stealing 300 million yen.
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The Threat (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
脅迫
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: Chantage / 脅迫
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
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The Desperate (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
どろ犬
director: Takaharu Saeki actor: Minoru Ōki / Chisako Hara …
other title: どろ犬
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
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Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
第五福竜丸
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Jūkichi Uno / Nobuko Otowa …
other title: Dragón de la suerte nº 5 / 第五福竜丸
An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come up to watch. They realize it is an atomic explosion, but take time to clear their fishing gear. A short time later, grey ash starts to fall on the ship. When the ship returns to port the sailors have been burned brown. They unload the fish, which are then transported away. They visit the local doctor and then go to Tokyo for an examination. It turns out they are all highly radioactive. Their symptoms become worse, and the contaminated fish causes a panic.
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黒木太郎の愛と冒険
director: Azuma Morisaki actor: Kunie Tanaka / Mitsuko Baisho …
other title: 黒木太郎の愛と冒険
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
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Blood Type: Blue (1978) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ブルークリスマス
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Hiroshi Katsuno / Keiko Takeshita …
other title: Blue Christmas / ブルークリスマス …
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-bloods" being persecuted by the rest of mankind, and eventually certain all-too-familiar measures begin to be taken against them.
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The Human Bullet (1968) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData NeoDB
肉弾
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Minori Terada / Naoko Ohtani …
other title: Nikudan / La torpille humaine …
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 war draws to a close, his commanding officers become increasingly desperate and push their men to ever more absurd extremes. The ridiculousness of the orders from above peak when the hero of the story is assigned to drive a one-man submarine straight into the hull of an enemy battleship.
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Pink Lady's Motion Picture (1978) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
ピンクレディーの活動大写真
director: Tsugunobu Kotani actor: Keiko Masuda / Mie …
other title: ピンクレディーの活動大写真 / Pink Lady no Katsudō Daishashin
The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a bulky, over-sized pink acrylic costume) who suffers acts of unusual cruelty by the keeper and ringmaster before the girls escape with the creature in a circus trailer.
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The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959) [Movie] Douban TMDB NeoDB IMDb
人間の條件　第３部望郷篇／第４部戦雲篇
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Michiyo Aratama …
other title: La Condizione Umana: Parte II – Cammino verso l'eternità / Guerra e Humanidade II: Estrada Para a Eternidade …
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 against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.
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Silence Has No Wings (1966) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
とべない沈黙
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Mariko Kaga / Hiroyuki Nagato …
other title: Le Silence sans ailes / El silencio no tiene alas …
Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by Kuroki depicts in exquisite images a series of encounters and life's turning points.
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Zatoichi Goes to the Fire Festival (1970) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
座頭市あばれ火祭り
director: Kenji Misumi actor: Shintarō Katsu / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: The Festival of Fire / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 21 : Le Shogun de l'ombre …
The blind masseuse is targeted by the leader of a powerful yakuza group while also fending off a jealous husband bent on revenge. Zatoichi tours Edo's underground via a rousing onsen fight scene, gambling houses and the gender-bending character of Umeji, before a final, flame-filled conflagration.
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Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
座頭市海を渡る
director: Kazuo Ikehiro actor: Shintarō Katsu / Michiyo Yasuda …
other title: Zatôichi's Pilgrimage / La Légende de Zatoïchi, Vol. 14 : Le Pèlerinage …
Zatoichi's trek through 88 temples to atone for his violent past is interrupted as he stumbles into a village terrorized by a violent yakuza boss.
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The Sun's Burial (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban
太陽の墓場
director: Nagisa Ōshima actor: Masahiko Tsugawa / Kayoko Honoo …
other title: Il cimitero del sole / 太陽の墓場 …
In Osaka's slum, youths without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the buying and selling of identity cards and of blood. Alliances constantly shift. Tatsu and Takeshi, friends since boyhood, reluctantly join Shin's gang. Shin's an upstart and moves his gang often to avoid the local kingpin. Hanoko is a young woman with ambitions: first she's in the blood business with her father, then she joins forces with Shin. She soon breaks off that partnership, even though she's taken the sensitive Takeshi under her wing. Double crosses multiply. Those with the closest bonds become each others' murderers.
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Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict (1993) [Movie] TMDB
子連れ狼 その小さき手に
director: Akira Inoue actor: Masakazu Tamura / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 子連れ狼 その小さき手に / Baby Cart vol.08 : Le conflit final …
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 position and replace him with a member of their own family. When his wife is murdered and evidence is produced that he was plotting against the Shogun the Code of Bushido calls for him and his son to commit sepuku. Instead he defies the Shogun's orders and takes up arms against his enemies, becoming an assassin for hire.
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The Face of Another (1966) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb
他人の顔
8.8 (10 ratings) director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Mikijiro Hira …
other title: Il volto di un altro / 他人の顔 …
A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.
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Graveyard of Honor (1975) [Movie] TMDB WikiData Douban IMDb
仁義の墓場
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tetsuya Watari / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: La tomba dell'onore / Le Cimetière de la morale …
A self-destructive man becomes a powerful member of the yakuza but quickly loses his self-control. Based on the true story of Rikio Ishikawa.
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Dodes'ka-den (1970) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB WikiData Douban IMDb
どですかでん
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Yoshitaka Zushi / Kin Sugai …
other title: どですかでん / Dodeskaden - O Caminho da Vida …
This film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son envisioning their dream house; the young woman abused by her uncle; the boy who imagines himself a trolley conductor—finds reasons to carry on.
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Abashiri Prison (1965) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB IMDb
網走番外地
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Ken Takakura / Kôji Nanbara …
other title: 網走番外地 / 网走番外地 …
Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty criminal, and although they hate each other they must work together if they are to evade capture in this harshest of climates.