#Tetsurô Tanba

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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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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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[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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Tetsurô Tanba - IMDB

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The Ghosts of Kasane Swamp | Nobuo Nakagawa | 1957

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Pigs and Battleships (1961) (Votes: 1530, rating: 7.6)

Watch popular movies with BlueBox: http://bit.ly/BlueBoxMovies. A young hoodlum decides to work for a criminal organization that is tearing itself apart. Director: Shôhei Imamura Stars: Hiroyuki Nagato, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Masao Mishima, Tetsurô Tanba

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Seppuku aka Harakiri (1962), dir. Masaki Kobayashi

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Riki-Oh - The Story of Ricky - Ngai Choi Lam 1991