Movies: Kenzō Tanaka

  • 1962
    Harakiri

    Harakiri (1962)

    Harakiri

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    Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual. The seni...

    Harakiri
  • 1965
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1965)

    Kwaidan

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    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 come...

    Kwaidan
  • 1964
    Three Outlaw Samurai

    Three Outlaw Samurai (1964)

    Three Outlaw Samurai

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    Shiba, a wandering ronin, encounters a band of peasants who have kidnapped the daughter of their dictatorial magistrate, in hopes of coercing from him a reduction in taxes. Shiba takes up their fight, joined by two renegades from the magistrate's gua...

    Three Outlaw Samurai
  • 1960
    The Sun's Burial

    The Sun's Burial (1960)

    The Sun's Burial

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    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 g...

    The Sun's Burial
  • 1964
    Assassination

    Assassination (1964)

    Assassination

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    Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. At a time when assassination had become a disturbing polit...

    Assassination
  • 1964
    Samurai from Nowhere

    Samurai from Nowhere (1964)

    Samurai from Nowhere

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    Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistr...

    Samurai from Nowhere
  • 1949
    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 (1949)

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

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    Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke....

    Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2
  • 1960
    Honno-Ji in Flames

    Honno-Ji in Flames (1960)

    Honno-Ji in Flames

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    The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at the temple Honnoji. Historically, the general Akechi Mitsuhide is credited with causing Nobunaga's down...

    Honno-Ji in Flames
  • 1960
    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines (1960)

    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

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    First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private"....

    Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines
  • 1957
    Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori

    Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori (1957)

    Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori

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    The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun family in Edo, and put it into Ryujin Maru. However, Tajima, who was the chief retainer of the shogunate...

    Den nana torimono jō bijo koumori
  • 1961
    As the Clouds Scatter

    As the Clouds Scatter (1961)

    As the Clouds Scatter

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    A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil....

    As the Clouds Scatter
  • 1950
    Somersault on the Way

    Somersault on the Way (1950)

    Somersault on the Way

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    A young boy named Chomatsu (Misora Hibari) lives with an old man Denbei near the grounds of Asakusa temple as bell ringers. In their house is an Echigo lion mask, a memento of Chomatsu's deceased father. After several incidents of Echigo lion masks b...

    Somersault on the Way
  • 1947
    The Love of the Actress Sumako

    The Love of the Actress Sumako (1947)

    The Love of the Actress Sumako

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    The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family to be with her, while trying to keep his Art Theatre solvent....

    The Love of the Actress Sumako
  • 1955
    The Further Adventures of Genta

    The Further Adventures of Genta (1955)

    The Further Adventures of Genta

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    The Further Adventures of Genta
  • 1950
    Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

    Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu (1950)

    Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu

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    A continuation of the prior film (影法師)....

    Zoku kagebōshi ryūkoaiutsutsu
  • 1954
    快盗三人吉三

    快盗三人吉三 (1954)

    快盗三人吉三

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    On March 11 in the seventh year of Tenpo (1836), a monk named Bennō, who fell in love with a geisha named Oshima, was publicly exposed at Nihonbashi for committing an illicit act with a woman. While this was happening, an extravagant procession led b...

    快盗三人吉三
  • 1960
    Adventures of Princess Anmitsu

    Adventures of Princess Anmitsu (1960)

    Adventures of Princess Anmitsu

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    Adventures of Princess Anmitsu
  • 1952
    Tsukigata Hanpeita

    Tsukigata Hanpeita (1952)

    Tsukigata Hanpeita

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    During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt government and end the bloodshed between the Choshu and Satsuma clans which would ultimately lead to the...

    Tsukigata Hanpeita
  • 1954
    Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble

    Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble (1954)

    Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble

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    During the era of Tokugawa Ieyasu, one night a carver named Fujijiro was murdered. Immediately launching an investigation, Denhichi, accompanied by Otoshi and Take, toured the entertainment houses of Ryogoku. There, they discovered a connection betwe...

    Denshichi Torimonocho: Tattoo Woman Trouble
  • 1954
    Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido

    Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido (1954)

    Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido

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    Kintaro goes on a journey to his hometown to meet his mother and sister. His love for singing leads him to a perceptive and cheerful girl named Onatsu... A road trip comedy featuring Kokichi Takada and Hibari Misora singing and dancing....

    Surprising 53 Stations of the Tokaido