Akira Tani
Birthday: 1910-09-22
Place of Birth: Fukuoka, Japan
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Hidden Fortress
In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a ...
View Movie
Mothra vs. Godzilla
Journalists Ichiro Sakai and Junko cover the wreckage of a typhoon when an enormous egg is found and...
View Movie
Kwaidan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four fol...
View Movie
Drunken Angel
In postwar Tokyo, a blunt, alcohol-soaked doctor diagnoses a swaggering young yakuza with tuberculos...
View Movie
The Scarlet Camellia
A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the ...
View Movie
Zokuzoku Ôban: Dotô hen
Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation ...
View Movie
Ôban
A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First p...
View Movie
Zoku Ôban: Fûun hen
Ushinosuke returns broke to his hometown, where everyone believes he's rich and successful. Part tw...
View Movie
The Bride from Japan
A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three...
View Movie
The King
The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneduc...
View Movie
Desperado Outpost
When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second ...
View Movie
My Hobo
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the N...
View Movie
Omatsuri hanjiro
Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun,...
View Movie
Our Failures
Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love ad...
View Movie
Farewell Rabaul
A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they und...
View Movie
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat...
View Movie
Yojimbo
A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...
View Movie
Beast Man Snow Man
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Sn...
View Movie
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for ...
View Movie
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs pr...
View Movie
I Live in Fear
An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to...
View Movie
Throne of Blood
Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who pred...
View Movie
The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of la...
View Movie
Late Chrysanthemums
With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ d...
View Movie
Wife
Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, mean...
View Movie
The Legend of the White Serpent
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in lov...
View Movie
The Living Koheiji
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to ge...
View Movie
Marital Relations
The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The ...
View Movie
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets wh...
View Movie
Samurai Saga
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized no...
View Movie
Daredevil in the Castle
During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has...
View Movie
Whirlwind
Set at the end of the Siege of Osaka this film follows the exploits of several members of the defeat...
View Movie
The Three Treasures
The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to suc...
View Movie
Snow Country
It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He con...
View Movie
The Beast Shall Die
A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the su...
View Movie
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She ...
View Movie
The Lone Journey
Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie p...
View Movie
The Hotelman's Holiday
Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his...
View Movie
Husband and Wife
A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husba...
View Movie
Chûshingura
After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the c...
View Movie
Saga of the Vagabonds
Lord Taro must deliver a money chest but is robbed by brigands led by Jibu. One of Jibu's men, Rokur...
View Movie
Untamed Woman
A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, ...
View Movie
The Wiser Age
Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner....
View Movie
The Irresponsible Fool
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate misch...
View Movie
Floating Clouds
A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Jap...
View Movie
Red-Light Bases
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution....
View Movie
Jakoman and Tetsu
In a village subsisting on it herring fishery, a one-eyed criminal named Jakoman terrorizes the inha...
View Movie
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the ...
View Movie
Beast Alley
Desperate to escape her grueling life caring for her paralyzed husband, Tamiko murders him and burns...
View Movie
Story of Lightning
Gensaburo Funaki and Oyuki were childhood friends, but Gensaburo misunderstood that Oyuki was hesita...
View Movie
Life of a Country Doctor
A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and nov...
View Movie
The Last Gunfight
Japanese police detective Saburo Fujioka is suspected of corruption, demoted, and sent to the city o...
View Movie
How the Bell of Liberty Rings
Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who def...
View Movie
Playboy President: Part II
After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate m...
View Movie
Fox and Raccoon
A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and...
View Movie
Three Dolls in College
The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University,...
View Movie
Geisha in the Old City
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a mov...
View Movie
Start Here
Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family con...
View Movie