#Tetsurô Tanba

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You Only Live Twice, British lobby (front of the house) card, 1967

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The 5-Man Army (Un esercito di cinque uomini) (1969) Italo Zingarelli and Don Taylor

November 10th 2024

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"Πάω στη σπηλιά μου" (Crete, 2015-2016)

31-5-2024: - "Tonight, midnight, our time" Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurô Tanba) - "Did your men search the island"? 

James Bond (Sean Connery)- Nothing. Except volcanoes. Everything is so normal around here.Nothing happens" 

Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurô Tanba) - "One thing has happened. Yesterday an Ama girl rode her boat into Rosaki" 

Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama)- "Rosaki"? 

James Bond (Sean Connery)- "It is a big cave on the mainland. And when her boat floated out again, she was dead" 

Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama)- "Was that the funeral we saw"? 

James Bond (Sean Connery)- "Yes" 

Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama)- "How did she die"? 

James Bond (Sean Connery)- "Nobody knows" 

Kissy Suzuki (Mie Hama) in "You only live twice" (1967), a film by Lewis Gilbert 

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Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)

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Bad movie I have Hara Kiri 1962

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Kwaidan | Masaki Kobayashi | 1964

Hoichi the Earless

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Harakiri (1962)

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Seppuku aka Harakiri (1962), dir. Masaki Kobayashi

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You Only Live Twice, British lobby (front of the house) card, 1967

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[Film Review] The Castle of Sand (1974)

English Title: The Castle of Sand Original Title: Suna no utsuwa Year: 1974 Country: Japan Language: Japanese Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller Director: Yoshitarô Nomura Writers: Shinobu Hashimoto Yôji Yamada Yoshitarô Nomura based on the novel by Seichô Matsumoto Music: Yasushi Akutagawa, Mitsuaki Kanno Cinematography: Takashi Kawamata Cast: Tetsurô Tanba Gô Katô Kensaku Morita Yôko Shimado Yoshi…

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How tragic that man can never realize how beautiful life is until he is face to face with death.

Screenwriter Shinobu Hashimoto (April 18, 1918 -- July 19, 2018) was one of Akira Kurosawa’s least-known collaborators, if only because he was not part of the director’s photogenic actors. But Hashimoto was more than just a Kurosawa collaborator. The screenwriter was raised in the Japanese countryside and was discharged from military service in World War II because of tuberculosis -- forcing him to spend four years in a veterans’ hospital. A fellow patient one day handed Hashimoto a magazine on cinema and, poring through the contents, it was then Hashimoto decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. He sent a screenplay to Mansaku Itami (a major figure of 1930s Japanese cinema, but whose films have largely not been distributed to the West), who was so impressed that he became the young Hashimoto’s mentor until his death in 1946.

Rashômon was Hashimoto’s screenwriting debut (and what a hell of a debut). Over the next several decades, Hashimoto’s films -- regardless of the director or actors involved -- would explore humanity from its most altruistic to its most unconscionable moments of cruelty. Hashimoto retired in 1982, having been with Toho Company for almost the entirety of his career. He passed away at a hundred years old in July -- the last of Kurosawa’s regular screenwriters living, and arguably the dean of that entire group.

Nine of his films are pictured above (left-right, descending):

Rashômon (1950) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Machiko Kyô, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki

Ikiru (1952) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Takashi Shimura, Shin’ichi Himori, Haruo Tanaka, Minoru Chiaki, Miki Odagiri, and Bokuzen Hidari

Seven Samurai (1954) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Yoshio Inaba, Daisuke Katô, Seiji Miyaguchi, Minoru Chiaki, Isao Kimura, Yoshio Tsuchiya, and Bokuzen Hidari

I Live in Fear (1955) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Takashi Shimura, and Minoru Chiaki

Throne of Blood (1957) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Takashi Shimura, Akira Kubo, Hiroshi Tachikawa, and Minoru Chiaki

Harakiri (1963) -- directed by Masaki Kobayashi; also starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Rentarô Mikuni, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, and Yoshio Inaba

The Sword of Doom (1966) -- directed by Kihachi Okamoto; also starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûzô Kayama, Michiyo Aratama, and Toshirô Mifune

Dodes’ka-den (1970) -- directed by Akira Kurosawa; also starring Yoshitaka Zushi, Kin Sugai, Toshiyuki Tonomura, Shinsuke Minami, and Yûkô Kusunoki

Hakkodasan (1977) -- directed by Shirô Moritani; also starring Shôgo Shimada, Ken Takakura, Hideji Ôtaki, Kin'ya Kitaôji, Tetsurô Tanba, Rentarô Mikuni, Komaki Kurihara, Akira Hamada, Mariko Kaga, and  Yûzô Kayama

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"ε, φέρτε μου μια γυναίκα να παντρευτώ" (flikey's home, Athens, Greece, 2014-2016)

31-5-2024: - "What's the plan for me"? James Bond (Sean Connery)- "First, you become a Japanese. Second, you train hard and quickly to become a ninja like us. And third, to give you extra special cover you take a wife. 

Regretfully impossible. 

You must marry Ama girl, one who is known on the island" Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurô Tanba)- "Is she pretty"? 

James Bond (Sean Connery)- "She has a face like a pig" 

Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurô Tanba)- "To hell with that idea" 

James Bond (Sean Connery)- "But this is duty" 

Aki (Akiko Wakabayashi)- "The girl I have chosen is an agent of mine. But first, you must become Japanese" 

Tiger Tanaka (Tetsurô Tanba) in "You only live twice" (1967), a film by Lewis Gilbert 

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Harakiri (Masaki Kobayashi, 1962)