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Tetsurô Tanba (1922–2006)

Actor | Producer | Director

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Born:

Shozaburo Tanba
in Tokyo, Japan

Died:

(age 84) in Tokyo, Japan
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2006 Japan Sinks
Reiko's grandpa
 
2005 Demon Pond (video)
 
2005 Yoshitsune (TV series)
Minamoto no Yorimasa (Gen-ji)
 
2005 Jikû keisatsu Part 5 (TV movie)
 
2004 Ôdâ meido: Shiawaseiro no shinshifukuten (TV mini-series)
 
2004 Jikû keisatsu Part 4 (TV movie)
 
2004 The Thousand Year Fire
 
2003 Jikû keisatsu Part 3 (TV movie)
 
2003 Yumemiru budô: Hon o yomu onna (TV series)
Yasuharu Ogawa
– Budô wa heiki? (2003) … Yasuharu Ogawa
– Unmei no hito (2003) … Yasuharu Ogawa
– Tôkyô wa paradaisu? (2003) … Yasuharu Ogawa
– Kôfuku no akai tori (2003) … Yasuharu Ogawa
– Saikô no natsuyasumi (2003) … Yasuharu Ogawa
 
2003 Kikoku (video)
 
2003 Gozu
 
2003 T.R.Y.
 
2002 The Twilight Samurai
Tozaemon Iguchi
 
2002 Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
Sanada
 
2002 September 11
(segment "Japan") (uncredited)
 
2002 Tsuribaka nisshi 13: Hama-chan kiki ippatsu!
Goro Kurobe
 
2002 The Cat Returns
Cat King (voice)
 
2002 Shin jingi no hakaba
Tetsuji Tokura
 
2002 Toshiie to matsu: kaga hyakumangoku monogatari (TV series)
Iguchi Tarôzáemon
 
2001 Jikû keisatsu Part 1 (TV movie)
 
2001 The Happiness of the Katakuris
Ojîsan Jinpei Katakuri
 
2001 Blind Beast vs. Dwarf
Dr. Tange
 
2000 A Class to Remember 4: Fifteen
Tetsuo Hata
 
2000 Sakuya: Slayer of Demons
Old master
 
1999 Tsukai, sanbiki no goinkyo (TV series)
 
1999 Jubaku: Spellbound
Tajiro Kawakami
 
1999 Hell
Asu Shino
 
1998 Screwed
Landlord
 
1998 Manuke sensei (TV movie)
Utaemon Baba
 
1997 Peking Man
Osone
 
1997 Kaseifu ha mita (TV series)
Masakata Hirota
– Elite ikka no kazoku hotei (1997) … Masakata Hirota
 
1996 Shadow Shôkai Henkirô (TV movie)
 
1995 Gokenin Zankurô (TV series)
 
1994 Chounouryoku-sha - Michi eno tabibito
 
1993 Ihen kaidô (TV movie)
 
1993 Hotel Doctor (TV mini-series)
Daizaburo komatsubara
– Episode #1.11 (1993) … Daizaburo komatsubara
– Episode #1.10 (1993) … Daizaburo komatsubara
– Episode #1.9 (1993) … Daizaburo komatsubara
– Episode #1.8 (1993) … Daizaburo komatsubara
– Episode #1.7 (1993) … Daizaburo komatsubara
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1992 Shôrishatachi
Ichinotani
 
1992 Taira no Kiyomori (TV movie)
Kiyomori's father
 
1991 Genji monogatari (TV series)
 
1991 The Great Shogunate Battle
 
1991 Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
Master Zhang Shan-Gui
 
1991 Kagerô
Denkichi Tsuzaki
 
1991 The Hit Man
Deku-san
 
1990 Gekido no 1750 nichi
 
1990 Pod severnym siyaniyem
Tsunejiro Kamisaka
 
1990 Hotel (TV series)
President Ohara
 
1990 Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara odoroita!!
Narrator (as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
1989 Kasugano Tsubone (TV series)
– Episode #1.50 (1989)
– Episode #1.1 (1989)
 
1989 Onihei hankachô (TV series)
 
1989 Four Days of Snow and Blood
Jinzaburi Shinzaki
 
1989 Gokudo no onna-tachi: San-daime ane
Takeo Sakanishi
 
1989 Twilight of the Cockroaches
Naomi's Grandfather (voice: Japanese version)
 
1989 Shôgun Iemitsu no ranshin - Gekitotsu
Hotta Masamori
 
1989 Kaseifu wa mita! 7 (TV movie)
Kinzo Yamakawa
 
1989 Zennin no joken
 
1989 Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara dounaru
Narrator (as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
1989 Teito taisen
Kanaami Kohou
 
1988 Tokyo Pop
Mr. Dota
 
1988 Marusa no onna 2
Sadohara (as Tetsurô Tamba)
 
1987 Shinran: Path to Purity
Aketora
 
1987 Shuto shôshitsu
Nakata (states man)
 
1987 Yogisha
Isaburo Tamura
 
1986 Shigatsu no sakana
Chief Panapora Handa
 
1986 Cabaret
Yakuza boss
 
1986 Inochi (TV series)
Masamichi
– Episode #1.1 (1986) … Masamichi
 
1985 Shiosai
 
1985 Love: Take Off
 
1984 Aoi hitomi no seiraifu (TV series)
 
1984 Kita no hotaru
Ishikura
 
1984 Zerosen moyu
Isoroku Yamamoto
 
1984 Station to Heaven
Izawa-keiji
 
1984 Kûkai
 
1984 Shura no mure
 
1984 Miyamoto Musashi (TV series)
Munisai Hirata
 
1983 Loving
Kajiro Sato
 
1983 Chôshichirô Edo Nikki (TV series)
 
1983 The Geisha
Kochi Notable
 
1983 Nihonkai daikaisen: Umi yukaba
Yamamoto
 
1983 Marco Polo (TV mini-series)
Saiamon
– Episode #1.7 (1983) … Saiamon (as Tetsuro Tamba)
– Episode #1.5 (1983) … Saiamon (as Tetsuro Tamba)
 
1983 Yusha ha katarazu (TV mini-series)
Tsuyoshi Fuyuki
 
1982 Seiha
Chitsukawa
 
1982 Yûkai hôdô
Domon
 
1982 Suspicion
Okamura
 
1982 Dai Nippon teikoku
Hideki Tojo
 
1982 Onimasa
Uichi Suda, The Big Boss
 
1982 Tôge no gunzô (TV series)
– Episode #1.1 (1982)
 
1981 The Bloody Bushido Blade
Lord Yamato
 
1981 Mayonaka no shôtaijô
Sugibayashi
 
1981 The Wild Daisy
Gozaburo Saito
 
1981 The Imperial Navy
Vice Admiral Takijirō Ånishi
 
1981 Samurai Reincarnation
Muramasa
 
1981 Flames of Blood
 
1980 Qing jie
 
1980 Ninja bugeicho momochi sandayu
Tozawa Hakuunsai
 
1980 Harukanaru sôro
Akiji Nishikawa
 
1980 203 kochi
General Kodama
 
1980 Tanba Tetsurô no chijô (koko) yori dai-reikai
Kurikara
 
1979 Nichiren
 
1979 Chôshichirô Tenka Gomen! (TV series)
Matsudaira
 
1979 The Shogun Assassins
 
1979 Hunter in the Dark
Okitsugu Tanuma
 
1979 Hissatsu shigotonin (TV series)
Kurando Mibuno
– Mondo wa sanzu no kawa o sakerareruka? (1979) … Kurando Mibuno
 
1979 Hakuchyu no shikaku
Yujiro Kinoshita
 
1978 The Fall of Ako Castle
Yanagisawa
 
1978 Never Give Up
General Wada
 
1978 Kôtei no inai hachigatsu
Mikami
 
1978 Kumokiri Nizaemon
Kichibei
 
1978 The Incident
Lawyer Kikuchi
 
1978 Message from Space
Noguchi
 
1978 Ôgon no hibi (TV series)
 
1978 The Shogun's Samurai
Ogasawara Gensinsai (Tajima's Rival)
 
1978 High Seas Hijack
Captain Munekata (as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
1977 Kochira Katsushika-ku Kameari kôen mae hashutsujo
 
1977 Sugata Sanshiro
 
1977 The Water Margin (TV mini-series)
General Hu
 
1977 Hakkodasan
Colonel Kojima
 
1975-1977 G-Men '75 (TV series)
Chief Kuroki
– Episode #1.104 (1977) … Chief Kuroki
 
1977 Sabita honoo
Seiichirô Tanemura
 
1977 The Alaska Story
Arashuk
 
1977 Tattooed Hit Man
 
1977 Karate Bear Fighter
 
1976 Hito goroshi
 
1976 Zero Pilot
Captain Saito
 
1976 Fumô chitai
 
1976 Zoku ningen kakumei
 
1976 Doudoutaru dasan (TV series)
 
1976 Shôrinji kenpô
Nobuyuki Kobayakawa
 
1976 Jitsuroku gaiden: Osaka dengeki sakusen
Kawada, White-Eyed Assassin
 
1976 Tsuma to onna no aida
 
1975 International Gangs of Kobe
Rinsei
 
1975 Tôkyô-wan enjô
 
1975 The Bullet Train
Sunaga
 
1975 All Men Are Brothers
Jade Unicorn Lu Chun Yi (as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
1975 Bôryoku kinmyaku
 
1974 Karate Inferno
Shugi
 
1974 The Castle of Sand
Detective Imanishi
 
1974 Karafuto 1945 Summer Hyosetsu no mon
 
1974 Nosutoradamusu no daiyogen
Dr. Nishiyama
 
1974 Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
Nagumo
 
1974 Bôryoku gai
 
1973 Za gokiburi
 
1973 The Ando File
 
1973 Jingi naki tatakai: Dairi sensô
Akashi Tatsuo
 
1973 The Human Revolution
 
1973 Yakuza to kôsô: Jitsuroku Andô-gumi
 
1973 Boachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
Shino - the Assassin (as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
1973 Yamaguchi-gumi San-daime
 
1973 Tidal Wave
Prime Minister Yamamoto
 
1972 Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
Kagemetsuke
 
1972 The Water Margin
Jade Unicorn Lu Chun I
 
1972 Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
Sergeant Katsuo Togashi
 
1972 Nihon boryoku-dan: koroshi no sakazuki
 
1972 Shadow Hunters
 
1971 Poruno no teiô
(Cameo)
 
1971 The Wolves
Genryu Asakura
 
1971 Gekido no showashi: Okinawa kessen
Lieutenant General Isamu Cho
 
1971 Boryokudan sai buso
 
1971 Bakuto kirikomi-tai
Chief Inspector
 
1971 Silence
 
1970 Men and War
 
1970 The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
Soshun Kochiyama
 
1970 Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
Hyoe
 
1970 The Underground Syndicate
 
1969 The Five Man Army
Samurai
 
1969 Hibotan bakuto: Tekkaba retsuden
 
1969 Goyôkin
Rokugo Tatewaki
 
1969 Wolves of the City
 
1969 Yakuza bangaichi: massatsu
 
1969 Yakuza bangaichi
 
1968 Oatsui kyûka
 
1968 Kaidan hebi-onna
Police Chief
 
1968 Diamonds of the Andes
Munakata
 
1968 Rikugun chôhô 33
Akiyama
 
1968 Ah, yokaren
Commander Honma
 
1968 Blackmail Is My Business
 
1968 Kuro tokage
 
1968 Bakuto Kaisan-shiki
 
1967 Gyangu no teiô
 
1967 Hatoba no taka
Detective Iwasaki
 
1967 You Only Live Twice
Tiger Tanaka (as Tetsuro Tamba)
 
1967 Portrait of Chieko
Kotaro Takamura
 
1967 Otoshimae
 
1967 Kaisan shiki
 
1967 The Private Police
 
1967 Zoku soshiki bôryoku
 
1967 Return of the Filthy Seven
 
1967 Kii Hantâ (TV series)
 
1966 Tairiku nagaremono
 
1966 The River Kino
Shintani Kosaku
 
1966 The Secret of the Urn
Lord Yagyu
 
1966 Aiyoku
Kimisuke Aso
 
1965 The Birth of Judo
Shuzo Izawa
 
1965 Prison Walls of Abashiri
 
1965 Korera no shiro
 
1965 Meiji kyokyakuden - sandaime shumei
Yutaro Nomura
 
1965 Samurai Spy
Sakon Takatani
 
1964 Kwaidan
Warrior (segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi")
 
1964 Revenge
 
1964 Assassination
Hachiro Kiyokawa
 
1964 The 7th Dawn
Ng (as Tetsuro Tamba)
 
1964 Samurai from Nowhere
Gunjuro Ohba
 
1964 Three Outlaw Samurai
Sakon Shiba
 
1964 Zoku Tokyo antachaburu
 
1964 Narazu-mono
 
1964 Jakoman to Tetsu
Jakoman
 
1964 Zoku Dojo Yaburi: Mondo Muyo
 
1964 Gokinzo yaburi
 
1964 Tôkyô gyangu tai Honkon gyangu
 
1963 The Thirteen Assassins
 
1963 Tange Sazen: zankoku no kawa
 
1963 Gyangu chûshingura
 
1963 Futari dake no toride
Ohara
 
1963 Tokyo Untouchable: Dasso
Goro Kawamoto
 
1963 Ankokugai no kaoyaku: juichinin no gyangu
Kunimitsu Haga
 
1962 Operation Diamond
Kazuo Kasami
 
1962 Umineko ga tonde
 
1962 Ôsho
Man who sells cotton candy (uncredited)
 
1962 Gyangu tai G-men
 
1962 Tokyo antachaburu
Goro Kawamoto
 
1962 Hell's Kitchen
Miki
 
1962 Tears on the Lion's Mane
Drunken
 
1962 Harakiri
Hikokuro Omodaka
 
1962 Gang tai Gang
 
1962 Hokori takaki chosen
 
1962 Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
 
1962 Hissatsu
 
1961 Structure of Hate
 
1961 Bridge to the Sun
Jiro (as Tetzuro Tamba)
 
1961 Kiiroi fudo
Kitani
 
1961 Kiri to kage
 
1961 Tôkyô yawa
Jiro
 
1961 Kidô sôsahan
Koike
 
1961 Pigs and Battleships
Slasher Tetsuji
 
1961 Daredevil in the Castle
Sadamasa Ishikawa
 
1961 Jigoku ni makkana hana ga kaku
 
1961 Greed in Broad Daylight
 
1960 Get 'em All
Tanabe
 
1960 The Gambling Samurai
Fumizo Mitsuki
 
1960 Female Slave Ship
Pirate master
 
1959 Daitoa senso to kokusai saiban
 
1958 Hitokui ama
Miyata
 
1958 Bara to onna kenjû-ô
 
1958 Dokufu Takahashi Oden
 
1957 Sen'un Ajia no joô
 
1957 The Depths
Ômura
 
1956 Yôun Satomi kaikyoden
Aboshi Samajirô
 
1956 Ghost of Hanging in Utusunomiya
Kurozumi Tenzen (as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
1956 Revenge of the Pearl Queen
Noguchi
 
1955 Gerô no kubi
 
1955 Twilight Saloon
Morimoto
 
1955 Akuma no sasayaki
 
1954 Hanran: Ni-ni-roku jiken
 
1954 Nihon yaburezu
 
1954 Wakaki hi no takuboku: Kumo wa tensai de aru
Chief Editor Etô
 
1953 Senkan Yamato
 
Show ShowProducer (3 titles)
1989 Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara dounaru (producer)
 
1980 Tanba Tetsurô no chijô (koko) yori dai-reikai (producer: Tanba Kikaku)
 
1964 Three Outlaw Samurai (associate producer)
 
Show ShowDirector (2 titles)
Show ShowWriter (2 titles)
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1989 Tanba Tetsuro no daireikai shindara dounaru (supervisor)
 
1977 Seven Nights in Japan (local help - as Tetsuro Tanba)
 
Show ShowSelf (4 titles)
2006 Teruo Ishii Fan Club (video documentary)
Himself
 
1992 Takajin no baâ (TV series)
Himself - Guest
 
1988 Making of 'A Taxing Woman 2' (video documentary)
Himself
 
1981 The 4th Annual Japan Academy Awards (TV special)
Himself
 
Show ShowArchive Footage (3 titles)
2002 Bond Girls Are Forever (TV documentary)
Tiger Tanaka (uncredited)
 
2000 Now Pay Attention 007: A Tribute to Actor Desmond Llewelyn (TV documentary)
Tiger Tanaka (uncredited)
 
1967 Welcome to Japan, Mr. Bond (TV documentary)
Tiger Tanaka
 

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