Tetsuro Tamba

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Tetsuro Tamba - what members say

Assassination review by A customer from Dumfries, Scotland

Period political thriller 20 June 2006
...f the powerful Tokugawa Shogunate. The hero of this particular story played by Tetsuro Tamba, is a masterless samurai with a lot of ambition. Throughout the film he leans ... Read customer review

Happiness Of The Katakuris on DVD (2001)
Starring: Kenji Sawada, Naomi Nishida, Keiko Matsuzaka
Director: Takashi Miike
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One of an amazing seven features directed in 2001 by Japan's prolific shock auteur Takashi Miike, The Happiness of the Katakuris is a gleefully morbid musical comedy about a family of oddballs who open an inn in the mountains. Unfortunately, through no fault of their own, none of their guests leave ..read more »

63% from 3,752 members

Silence on DVD (1971)
Starring: Shima Iwashita, Yoshi Kato, Don Kenny
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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Adapted from the renowned novel by Shusaku Endo, Masahiro Shinoda's 1971 film Silence (Chinmoku, co-written with Endo) explores the violent cultural conflict amid the arrival of Jesuit missionaries in seventeenth-century Japan. Shinoda's excellent direction - coupled with a pensive score by the ..read more »

63% from 254 members

Yakuza Deka on DVD (1970)
Starring: Sonny Chiba, Tetsuro Tamba, Bin Amatsu
Director: Yukio Noda
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Chiba plays Hayata, an undercover cop who infiltrates two rival mafia gangs..

52% from 86 members

Kwaidan on DVD (1964)
Starring: Rentaro Mikuni, Michiyo Aratama, Misako Watanabe
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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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.

68% from 1,315 member

Assassination on DVD (1964)
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Eiji Okada, Eitaro Ozawa
Director: Masahiro Shinoda
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The story of Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" - the foreign steamboats of Commander Matthew Perry - anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political maneuvering that saw the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The film follows Tetsuro Tamba, an ..read more »

66% from 219 members

Harakiri (1962)
Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentaro Mikuni, Shima Iwashita
Director: Masaki Kobayashi
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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 »

86% from 46 members
Not available for rental

Pigs And Battleships (1961)
Starring: Tetsuro Tamba, Yoko Minamida, Jitsuko Yoshimura
Director: Shohei Imamura
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Long before he gained fame for winning the 1983 Cannes Golden Palm award for THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA, director Shohei Imamura created this superbly crafted, sardonic drama about the yakuza (Japanese Mafia) and the modernization of Japan after World War II. Kinta (Hiroyuki Nagato) is caught in the ..read more »

70% from 49 members
Not available for rental

Happiness Of The Katakuris - 3.0 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Yakuza Deka - 2.5 stars
Kwaidan - 3.5 stars
Assassination - 3.5 stars

Kwaidan - 3.5 stars
Assassination - 3.5 stars
Happiness Of The Katakuris - 3.0 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Yakuza Deka - 2.5 stars

Pigs And Battleships - 3.5 stars
Harakiri - 4.5 stars
Yakuza Deka - 2.5 stars
Silence - 3.0 stars
Happiness Of The Katakuris - 3.0 stars

Shima Iwashita - 2 times - show films
Eitaro Ozawa - 2 times - show films
Bin Amatsu - 2 times - show films
Tatsuya Nakadai - 2 times - show films
Ryohei Uchida - 2 times - show films

Shohei Imamura - 2 times - show films
Masahiro Shinoda - 2 times - show films
Masaki Kobayashi - 2 times - show films
Takashi Miike - 1 times - show films
Yukio Noda - 1 times - show films