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Tatsuya Nakadai



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Tatsuya Nakadai - filmography


  • Return From The River Kwai (1988)
    Starring: Edward Fox,  Denholm Elliott,  Tatsuya Nakadai
    Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    True story of British and Australian POW's held by the Japanese in Thailand. Near the end of the war the fittest of the POW's were moved by rail and ship to Japan, and during the sea journey the convoy comes under attack from an American submarine at the same time as the Allied POW's were making a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 410 members
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  • RAN - Blu-ray (1985)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Mieko Harada,  Akira Terao
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    For his 27th film, the 'sensei' of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as 'chaos' or 'turmoil', is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 426 members
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  • RAN on DVD (1985)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Mieko Harada,  Akira Terao
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    For his 27th film, the 'sensei' of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as 'chaos' or 'turmoil', is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday...read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 6,327 members
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  • RAN - HD (1985)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Mieko Harada,  Akira Terao
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    For his 27th film, the 'sensei' of Japanese cinema, Akira Kurosawa, transposes Shakespeare's KING LEAR to feudal Japan. RAN, which translates as 'chaos' or 'turmoil', is the tragic tale of Lord Hidetora, a warlord who decides to divide his empire among his three sons on the eve of his 70th birthday...read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 52 members
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  • Kagemusha on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Kenichi Hagiwara,  Takashi Shimura
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty securing backing for his ambitious projects. Unsure ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 4,062 members
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  • The Wolves on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Noboru Ando,  Komaki Kurihara
    Director: Hideo Gosha
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    THE WOLVES, starring Japanese film great Tatsuya Nakadai, is a visually stunning and elaborate gangster film set in the late 1920s, when the yakuza still dressed in robes and carried swords. There is an occasional bowler hat or bit of newsreel film, but Hideo Gosha's epic largely fits the classic ..read more »
    2 stars out of 5 44% from 207 members
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  • Zatoichi at the Fire Festival on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Shintaro Katsu,  Tatsuya Nakadai
    Director: Kenji Misumi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    It is Tempo-era Japan in the nineteenth century. Zatoichi is on his travels again. They will bring him to a village where the Boss of All Bosses, Yamikubo, holds sway, a man known as the Prince of Darkness. This is a place where women can be bought at auction - and if the bidder is unlucky enough ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 315 members
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  • Portrait Of Hell on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Kinnosuke Nakamura,  Yoko Naito
    Director: Shiro Toyoda
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This Japanese drama stars Tatsuya Nakadai as an artist who creates his own hell on earth when he agrees to paint a portrait of a corrupt lord. The film is based on a story by Ryunosuke Akutagawa, the author of RASHOMON.
    2.5 stars out of 5 55% from 110 members
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  • Sword Of Doom (1966)
    Starring: Toshiro Mifune,  Tatsuya Nakadai
    Director: Kihachi Okamoto
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    A child is brought up by his father to be a man of the sword - for whom killing is a pleasure. This man uses his sword as the only family he recognises. Japanese dialogue.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 726 members
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  • The Face Of Another on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai
    Director: Hiroshi Teshigahara
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Bearing traces of both Frankenstein and the 1959 Georges Franju horror classic Eyes without a Face, the Japanese The Face of Another is a disturbing Japanese drama featuring Tatsuya Nakadai. His face horribly disfigured in an accident, Nakadai, a wealthy industrialist, commissions a special mask ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 689 members
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  • Kwaidan on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Rentaro Mikuni,  Michiyo Aratama,  Misako Watanabe
    Director: Masaki Kobayashi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This film contains four distinct, separate stories. "Black Hair": A poor samurai who divorces his true love to marry for money, but finds the marriage disastrous and returns to his old wife, only to discover something eerie about her.
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,280 member
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  • High And Low on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Toshiro Mifune,  Kyoko Kagawa
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on King's Ransom, an 87th Precinct novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return -- an ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 1,518 member
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  • Sanjuro on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Toshiro Mifune,  Masao Shimizu
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Set in the mid-19th century when the disintegration of a rigid social structure was turning the once wealthy into paupers, or vice-versa, this kinetic drama by acclaimed Akira Kurosawa features the hero Sanjuro (Toshiro Mifune), one of many samurai whose once traditional positions were fast ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 3,970 members
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  • Harakiri (1962)
    Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai,  Rentaro Mikuni,  Shima Iwashita
    Director: Masaki Kobayashi
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Following the collapse of his clan, unemployed samurai Hanshiro Tsugumo arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to commit ritual suicide on his property. Iyi's clansmen, believing the desperate ronin is merely angling for charity, try to force him to eviscerate himself-but they have ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 41 members
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Tatsuya Nakadai facts

5 most recent films

Illusion Of Blood - 2.5 stars
Return From The River Kwai - 3.0 stars
RAN - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
RAN - 3.5 stars
RAN - HD - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

RAN - HD - 4.0 stars
RAN - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
High And Low - 3.5 stars
Sanjuro - 3.5 stars
RAN - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

When A Woman Ascends The Stairs - 4.0 stars
Harakiri - 4.5 stars
The Wolves - 2.0 stars
Illusion Of Blood - 2.5 stars
Portrait Of Hell - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Daisuke Ryu - 5 times - show films
Toshiro Mifune - 4 times - show films
Jinpachi Nezu - 4 times - show films
Yoshiko Miyazaki - 4 times - show films
Mieko Harada - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Akira Kurosawa - 9 times - show films
Masaki Kobayashi - 3 times - show films
Shiro Toyoda - 2 times - show films
Hiroshi Teshigahara - 1 times - show films
Kenji Misumi - 1 times - show films