Kunie Tanaka — Actor (48)
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Kwaidan (1965) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
怪談
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Michiyo Aratama / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: Kwaidan - Storie di fantasmi / Kwaïdan …
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
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Manhunt (1976) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
君よ憤怒の河を渉れ
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Ryoko Nakano …
other title: 君よ憤怒の河を渉れ / Kimi yo fundo no kawa o watare …
A tough prosecutor is falsely accused of theft and goes on the run to clear his name. He is assisted by the beautiful daughter of a rich man.
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Sanjuro (1962) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
椿三十郎
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: 椿三十郎
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and sequel to "Yojimbo," jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan's evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a proper samurai on its ear.
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The Bad Sleep Well (1960) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
悪い奴ほどよく眠る
director: Akira Kurosawa actor: Toshirō Mifune / Masayuki Mori …
other title: I cattivi dormono in pace / O Mal Dorme Bem …
In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData Min reol IMDb Douban
県警対組織暴力
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: Police contre Syndicat du crime / 県警対組織暴力 …
When a lucrative waterfront development becomes available, the Kawade gang quickly use their political connections to secure the land. However, the acting boss of the Ohara gang also has his eyes on the property and recruits crooked detective Tokumatsu Kuno to help him hijack the deal. With relations between the rival gangs at breaking point, it's not long before all-out war breaks out as the gangsters, police and local politicians battle for control of the city.
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Hitokiri (1969) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
人斬り
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Shintarō Katsu / Tatsuya Nakadai …
other title: Tenchu! / 人斩 …
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
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Evil of Dracula (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
血を吸う薔薇
director: Michio Yamamoto actor: Toshio Kurosawa / Mariko Mochizuki …
other title: La rosa che succhia il sangue / Chi o suu bara …
A professor takes up a new post at an all-girls school only to discover the principal concealing a dark secret.
1970s horror japan monstermiru vampire
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Cash Calls Hell (1966) [Movie] TMDB
五匹の紳士
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Hisashi Igawa …
other title: 五匹の紳士 / Le Sang du damné …
Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-share of 30,000,000 yen, he is to assassinate three strangers given to him on a list. However, upon meeting his first potential victim, Oida has second thoughts. Yet, even as he tries to back out, the body count starts climbing. Oida must now try to alert the people on his list of their impending danger, and find out why they are being targeted in the first place.
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The Bullet Train (1975) [Movie] TMDB KevGa-NeoDB WikiData NeoDB IMDb Douban
新幹線大爆破
director: Junya Satō actor: Ken Takakura / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Super Expresso 109 / Panik im Tokio-Express …
A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb.
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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) [Movie] TMDB
金田一耕助の冒険
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
新仁義なき戦い
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Hiroki Matsukata …
other title: Nouveau combat sans code d'honneur 1 / 新仁義なき戦い …
Bunta Sugawara is Miyoshi, a low-level assassin of the Yamamori gang who is sent to jail after a bungled hit. While in stir, family member Aoki attempts to seize power from the boss, and Miyoshi finds himself stuck between the two factions with no honorable way out.
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Battle Cry (1975) [Movie] TMDB
吶喊
director: Kihachi Okamoto actor: Tsutomu Hiura / Toshitaka Itō …
other title: 吶喊
During the military phase of the Meiji Restoration of 1868, Sentaro joins a local militia loyal to the Tokugawa Shogunate in order to fight Imperial troops. But Sentaro's friendship with a pickpocket, who switches sides whenever it suits his needs, leads to complications that could cost Sentaro his life as they infiltrate enemy lines.
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Pitfall (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban WikiData TMDB IMDb
おとし穴
director: Hiroshi Teshigahara actor: Hisashi Igawa / Sumie Sasaki …
other title: Le Traquenard / La trampa (The Pitfall) …
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.
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The Wolves (1971) [Movie] TMDB
出所祝い
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Tatsuya Nakadai / Noboru Andō …
other title: 出所祝い / Les Loups
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it be before the bloodshed begins anew? Set in 1926 Japan, this serpentine crime thriller from director Hideo Gosha also stars Toshio Kurosawa and Isao Natsuyagi as Iwahashi's closest ally.
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Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968) [Movie] TMDB
無頼　黒匕首
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 無頼　黒匕首
A street war breaks loose between two rival gangs in the Kansai region of Japan. Goro is in the middle of action. Through a knife fight against Sueo, a high profile gangster from Busou-kai, Goro notices a familiar face approaching him from amidst the chaos - his girlfriend, Yuri. Goro had sent her to safety, but she had returned, aching to see him. Caught between Goro and his enemy knife, she reunites with her love - the price was her life.
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The Hidden Blade (2004) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
隠し剣 鬼の爪
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Masatoshi Nagase / Takako Matsu …
other title: La Servante et le Samouraï / La espada oculta …
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
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Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) [Movie] TMDB Douban
八つ墓村
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: 八つ墓村 / Village of the Eight Tombs …
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of novel by Seishi Yokomizo