Best movies of Tetsurô Tanba

Actors : Yôko Mihara, Bunta Sugawara, Utako Mitsuya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yoshiki Onoda,

Towards the end of World War Two Lt. Sugawa is flying to Tokyo with top secret blueprints when his plane is shot out of the sky over the Pacific Seas. He is plucked from the ocean onto a ...

Actors : Kôji Tsuruta, Hideo Kô, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Mizuhara did his time in jail for Boss Komori. Now that he is out, the old gang wants to say welcome back with a bullet.

Actors : Yoshiko Sakuma, Ryûji Oki, Chiezô Kataoka, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

Per aging chanbara star Katoaka's involvement, this leans more to the old-fashioned gangster film style/formula spilling over from Toei's 1950s heyday.

Actors : Shinjirô Ebara, Ken Takakura, Naoki Sugiura, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A killer who only hits people who deserve it is tricked into killing an innocent man. He then seeks revenge against the people who employed him.

Actors : Chieko Baishô, Isamu Nagato, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Seiichirô Uchikawa,

The adventures of a ronin, a samurai without a feudal lord, trying to achieve safety in a neighbouring domain.

Actors : Tôru Abe, Hashizô Ôkawa, Chiezô Kataoka, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Teruo Ishii,

A new prisoner arrives at a prison where the prisoners have their own obscene culture. There he gets involved in a plot to steal government gold from the Shogun's vault.

Actors : Isao Yamagata, Yôko Minamida, Ken Takakura, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kinji Fukasaku,

In a village subsisting on its herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inhabitants. One of them, the son of the head of one of the fish companies by the name of Tetsu, decides to overthrow Jakoman and his cohorts.

Actors : Isamu Nagato, Haruko Wanibuchi, Tetsurô Tanba,

Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to believe that he has gone insane with blood-lust.

Actors : Tôru Abe, Kôji Tsuruta, Junko Fuji, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Tai Katô,

A tale set in the late Meiji era - circa 1880s-1890 as opposed to the early Meiji which began in the 1860s.

Actors : Yûnosuke Itô, Kôji Tsuruta, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Kiyoshi Saeki,

Somewhat unique as it appears to be one of the very rare appearances of master thespian Itô in a yakuza role.

Actors : Jin Nakayama, Hiroshi Akutagawa, Shima Iwashita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Noboru Nakamura,

Takamura, poet and sculptor, is married to Chieko, who also has artistic desires. However, she is becoming increasingly aware that she can not match her husband's work.

Actors : Shin'ichi Chiba, Shigeru Katsumi, Tatsuo Umemiya, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Yukio Noda,

Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.

Actors : Akio Hasegawa, Yôko Yamamoto, Kei Satô, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Shôgorô Nishimura,

An extremely fast-moving, entertaining example of just exactly what a gendai (modern) or jitsuroku (true account) yakuza movie should be.

Actors : Ryôhei Uchida, Yûjirô Ishihara, Mikio Narita, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

The second live-action film about the adventures of three ronin: Jubei, Sunlight, and Moonlight, who dedicate their lives to hunt down "shadows", the ninja spies of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Actors : Seiko Matsuda, Tadashi Kuwabara, Tetsurô Tanba, Shôgo Shimada,
Directors : Shin'ichirô Sawai,

Teenage cousins Masao and Tamiko fall in love when she comes to his riverside brewery house to take care of his sickly mother. On the day of the Autumn Festival, while picking cotton in a ...

Actors : Tomokazu Miura, Teruhiko Aoi, Masako Natsume, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Toshio Masuda,

Favorable portrayal of Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, who approved of the bombardment of Pearl Harbor, as a patriot. The film is a jingoistic defense of Japanese imperialism.