Tatsuo Matsumura
Birthday: 1914-12-18
Place of Birth: Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
Biography: Tatsuo Matsumura (松村 達雄 Matsumura Tatsuo, 18 December 1914 – 18 June 2005) was a Japanese actor. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1960 to 2004 and performed in several editions of the film series Otoko wa Tsurai yo.
Movies
47 Ronin
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is force...
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Dodes'ka-den
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “dri...
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Police Precinct Part 13
On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his d...
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Madadayo
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by ...
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The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters w...
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Lips of Ruin
Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also known in English as “Black Parking Lot”....
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War and Youth
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the f...
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Lie Lie Lie
Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikaw...
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Muchana Yakko
A comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching...
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The Political Game
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. No...
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has...
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The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into tel...
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The Naked Executive
The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but t...
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Roppongi Nights: Love Me, Love Me
Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two y...
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Bakeneko: A Vengeful Spirit
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wi...
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I, the Executioner
Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who ...
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Hiroshima
Hiroshima is a 1995 Japanese / Canadian film directed by Koreyoshi Kurahara and Roger Spottiswoode a...
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Messengers to Satsuma
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven on...
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My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the N...
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Tora-san's Dear Old Home
While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young wom...
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Tora-san's Dream-Come-True
When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying h...
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Fugitive Scoundrel
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the ...
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Tora-san's Lovesick
After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into U...
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Children on the Island
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops b...
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The Secret of the Telegian
Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to l...
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A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother J...
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After the Rain
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As...
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Let's Meet in Our Dreams
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We foll...
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Goodbye Japan
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okina...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponso...
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The Human Vapor
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes ...
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Harakiri
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...
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Ganryujima: Kojiro and Musashi
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's becau...
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Milk White
Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome...
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It Is a Long Walk
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city o...
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The Twilight Story
In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing ...
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Irresponsible Age of Japan
An irresponsible salaryman works his way to the top of the corporate ladder....
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Tora-san's Forget Me Not
On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer....
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to To...
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Friendship
Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but recei...
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A Story from Echigo
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-...
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The Seven Chefs
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the he...
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Broken Swords
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin,...
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Suspicion
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local...
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Assignment Dragon No. 3
In late 1940 the Japanese were anxious to conclude peace in China and to that end sent Colonel Hidak...
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Island of Hell
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946....
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The Lovable Tramp
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with ...
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High School Juniors (Part II)
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, re...
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Karate Cop 2
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed ...
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The Big Boss
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the w...
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The Maid Story
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters...
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Cross-Currents
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney o...
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Samurai Rebellion
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped away from her husband by the lord. The husband ...
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Zatoichi Challenged
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father,...
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Shichinin no keiji
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in ...
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The Donkey Comes on a Tank
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his ...
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The Irresponsible Fool
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate misch...
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Tora-san Loves an Artist
Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encount...
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My Voiceless Friends
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visi...
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Twice on a Certain Night
Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who...
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Tora-san's Shattered Romance
Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown a...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. ...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She ...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly tu...
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The Last Judgment
Based on a crime novel called Heaven Ran Last, by American pulp fiction writer William P. McGivern....
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Between Calmness and Passion
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each...
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My Sons
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has alway...
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Crazy Operation: First Move
After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various f...
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King Kong vs. Godzilla
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for a...
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Hidden Fangs
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch....
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Aces Wild
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitima...
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Chikuhō no kodomotachi
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines....
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B.G Story: Designs of a 20 Year-Old
Ayako Kurimura, a new B.G. at Nitto Electric, becomes the object of affection for both her brother's...
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Life's Simple Pleasures Pt. 4
The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series....
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