Kunie Tanaka — Actor (48)
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Outlaw: Gangster VIP 2 (1968) [Movie] TMDB
大幹部 無頼
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 大幹部 無頼
Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko (Chieko Matsubara), but finds that Yumeko is fatally ill. Although Yukiko was taking care of her, she is pressed for money. Goro wants to help and knows that there is only one way to come up with fast money.
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Police Tactics (1974) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban
仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: The Yakuza Papers, Vol. 4: Police Tactics / 仁義なき戦い 頂上作戦 …
As Japan gears up for the 1964 Olympic games, the cops start to crack down on the gangs, under pressure from the public and the press, adding a new dimension in the war for power among the yakuza families of Hiroshima.
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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972) [Movie] TMDB
人斬り与太 狂犬三兄弟
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Kunie Tanaka …
other title: 人斬り与太 狂犬三兄弟 / Okita le pourfendeur : les Trois Frères chiens fous
The great Bunta stars as a gangster who is sent to jail for the sake of his gang, but when he’s released he finds everything completely changed and his gang has swept him aside for being too violent. He tries to start a new life with his two ”brothers” but can’t seem to escape old affiliations
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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
仁義なき戦い 代理戦争
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Bunta Sugawara / Takeshi Katō …
other title: Battles Without Honor and Humanity - Proxy War / 仁義なき戦い 代理戦争 …
Shozo Hirono has managed to separate from the Yamamori family and create his own small family, and extend his circle of acquaintances. These new friendships include a powerful underboss of the Muraoka family, Noboru Uchimoto.
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Duel at Fort Ezo (1970) [Movie] TMDB
蝦夷館の決闘
director: Kengo Furusawa actor: Yūzō Kayama / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 蝦夷館の決闘
1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian count's daughter, the village leader's daughter and a secret treasure add up to the adventure.
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Ronin-gai (1990) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
浪人街
director: Kazuo Kuroki actor: Yoshio Harada / Kanako Higuchi …
other title: 浪人街 / Rônin-gai …
Near the end of Japanese civil war, several disgraced ronin living in Edo's red light district attempt to regain their honor by defending a brothel from a hostile militia bent on wiping out local prostitutes.
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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.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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.