Tatsuo Matsumura
Aithnichte airson: Acting
Co-là-breith: 1914-12-18
Àite breith: Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Cuideachd aithnichte mar: 마츠무라 타츠오
47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...
Saoradh : 1994.10.22Popularity : 4.666
Dodes'ka-den
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...
Saoradh : 1970.10.31Popularity : 7.529
Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...
Saoradh : 1960.06.07Popularity : 2.806
Madadayo
Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...
Saoradh : 1993.04.17Popularity : 9.065
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
Saoradh : 1960.11.20Popularity : 1.557
Lips of Ruin
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.
Saoradh : 1963.11.30Popularity : 1.968
War and Youth
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up,...
Saoradh : 1991.04.01Popularity : 0.496
Lie Lie Lie
Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen...
Saoradh : 1997.10.04Popularity : 2.576
Muchana Yakko
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up...
Saoradh : 1964.07.04Popularity : 1.785
The Political Game
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and...
Saoradh : 1989.05.03Popularity : 3.354
Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job....
Saoradh : 2003.06.14Popularity : 2.867
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Saoradh : 1963.11.16Popularity : 5.411
The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...
Saoradh : 1964.07.01Popularity : 1.903
Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...
Saoradh : 1963.01.29Popularity : 3.199
Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife. To avoid her fate, Lady Takafusa drowns...
Saoradh : 1968.07.12Popularity : 3.181
I, the Executioner
Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.
Saoradh : 1968.04.13Popularity : 3.696
Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode about the decision-making processes that led to...
Saoradh : 1995.08.05Popularity : 1.957
Messengers to Satsuma
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...
Saoradh : 1982.11.26Popularity : 0.816
My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...
Saoradh : 1962.11.23Popularity : 2.852
Toilet Manager
The life of a toilet-seller during the Japanese Economic Miracle.
Saoradh : 1961.08.29Popularity : 1.215
Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.
Saoradh : 1972.08.05Popularity : 2.691
Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...
Saoradh : 1972.12.29Popularity : 5.009
Fugitive Scoundrel
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent. But of course the opponent has a pretty...
Saoradh : 1970.10.03Popularity : 1.134
Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...
Saoradh : 1974.08.10Popularity : 2.172
Children on the Island
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
Saoradh : 1987.07.11Popularity : 2.225
The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.
Saoradh : 1960.04.10Popularity : 2.742
Kigeki ekimae bentô
Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...
Saoradh : 1961.12.24Popularity : 2.656
After the Rain
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst...
Saoradh : 2000.01.22Popularity : 16.425
Kokkai e ikô!
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
Saoradh : 1993.05.01Popularity : 1.621
Goodbye Japan
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese...
Saoradh : 1995.09.02Popularity : 1.361
King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist...
Saoradh : 1962.08.11Popularity : 14.388
The Human Vapor
A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...
Saoradh : 1960.12.11Popularity : 4.459
Harakiri
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...
Saoradh : 1962.09.15Popularity : 23.068
Tora-san, the Matchmaker
Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.
Saoradh : 1979.08.04Popularity : 1.698
Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a...
Saoradh : 1992.01.01Popularity : 2.18
Milk White
Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He...
Saoradh : 2004.01.17Popularity : 3.87
It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was...
Saoradh : 2000.09.15Popularity : 8.348
The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher...
Saoradh : 1960.08.28Popularity : 1.172
Happy Go-Lucky
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder.
Saoradh : 1962.07.27Popularity : 1.635
Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.
Saoradh : 1973.01.04Popularity : 2.525
Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.
Saoradh : 1980.12.27Popularity : 2.172
Friendship
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...
Saoradh : 1998.05.16Popularity : 2.089
A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...
Saoradh : 1964.05.09Popularity : 3.249
The Seven Chefs
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must...
Saoradh : 1997.01.15Popularity : 2.051
Broken Swords
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...
Saoradh : 1969.05.30Popularity : 1.457
Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who...
Saoradh : 1982.09.11Popularity : 2.962
Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidaka to inaugurate negotiations. He was mysteriously...
Saoradh : 1967.01.03Popularity : 3.553
Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
Saoradh : 1977.08.27Popularity : 2.835
The Lovable Tramp
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...
Saoradh : 1966.11.12Popularity : 1.261
High School Juniors (Part II)
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...
Saoradh : 1964.08.22Popularity : 0.65
Karate Cop 2
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the...
Saoradh : 1983.07.02Popularity : 1.228
The Big Boss
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman...
Saoradh : 1963.04.12Popularity : 1.592
Organized Violence
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
Saoradh : 1967.02.25Popularity : 1.757
The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men. So, they are...
Saoradh : 1963.06.16Popularity : 1.177
Cross-Currents
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
Saoradh : 1972.09.09Popularity : 1.026
Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband and his samurai father must decide whether to...
Saoradh : 1967.05.27Popularity : 7.417
Zatoichi Challenged
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town. After...
Saoradh : 1967.12.30Popularity : 3.924
Blood on the Sea
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
Saoradh : 1961.08.13Popularity : 1.329
Shichinin no keiji
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...
Saoradh : 1963.01.27Popularity : 2.051
The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
Saoradh : 1964.12.26Popularity : 2.503
The Irresponsible Fool
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...
Saoradh : 1964.04.29Popularity : 0.925
Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...
Saoradh : 1973.12.25Popularity : 1.771
My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
Saoradh : 1972.04.29Popularity : 3.175
Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...
Saoradh : 1956.06.08Popularity : 1.597
Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...
Saoradh : 1971.01.15Popularity : 4.956
Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...
Saoradh : 1983.12.28Popularity : 5.813
Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...
Saoradh : 1985.08.03Popularity : 1.055
Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...
Saoradh : 1987.12.26Popularity : 1.688
Between Calmness and Passion
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10...
Saoradh : 2001.11.10Popularity : 3.076