Kunie Tanaka — Actor (146)
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Duel at Fort Ezo (1970) IMDb 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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Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War (1973) IMDb TMDB
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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Outlaw Killers: Three Mad Dog Brothers (1972) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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: Police Tactics (1974) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
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: Gangster VIP 2 (1968) IMDb 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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Village of Eight Gravestones (1977) IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
八つ墓村
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Mayumi Ogawa …
other title: 八つ墓村 / 八墓村
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse was placed on it centuries earlier by a band of samurai warriors. Adaptation of the novel by Seishi Yokomizo.
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The Hidden Blade (2004)
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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Outlaw: Black Dagger (1968) IMDb TMDB
無頼　黒匕首
director: Keiichi Ozawa actor: Tetsuya Watari / Chieko Matsubara …
other title: 無頼　黒匕首 / Outlaw - Black Dagger
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 Wolves (1971) IMDb 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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Pitfall (1962)
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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Battle Cry (1975) IMDb 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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New Battles Without Honor and Humanity 1 (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) IMDb 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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The Bullet Train (1975)
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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Cash Calls Hell (1966) IMDb 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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Evil of Dracula (1974) WikiData IMDb TMDB
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.
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Cops vs. Thugs (1975)
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.