Haruo Tanaka
Acting
Biography
Haruo Tanaka ( March 25 , 1912 – February 21, 1992 ) was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. After the war, he appeared in films for Toho and Shintoho , but gradually he began to demonstrate his unique personality and became active as a character actor, appearing in works by many of the great directors who have shaped the history of Japanese cinema, including Akira Kurosawa , Yasujiro Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , and Shiro Toyoda. He died of lung cancer on February 21 , 1992 , at the age of 79.
Born: March 25, 1912
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Known For
Yakuza bayashi
Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko
Gambler
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses. A young fashion villain, a Yakuza boss wants to get into politics. He makes a deal with the Osaka Railway Company, leaving many poor people homeless. Tachibana engages in a fierce battle with villains for the poor.
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater.
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of their special abilities. In the end, their plan goes beyond what was intended and turns into a good deed for many people. A masterpiece of historical drama, full of breathtaking thrills and action.
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life.
Snow-Flake
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Immigrant gangs terrorize a Japanese town with their threats, loud jazz, and tasteless fashion sense, and only the tough but suave Dr. Amamiya (Ando) can stop them, as long as he gets rid of his silly peace-loving ideals.
Chikamatsu Monogatari
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find themselves falling for one another.
Good Morning
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Tokyo Twilight
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
Filmography
as Old Man
as Iwakichi
as Samejima
as Minegishi
as Banteki
as Ise Yoshimori
as Shiraki Jinzaemon
as Jirokichi Hanazawa
as Daihachi
as Uemura
as Tanaka
as Hikosaburo Okubo
as Kinjiro Takeuchi
as Yasuzo
as Otoboke Senta
as Yumatsu
as Teruyoshi
as Yatazo
as Yadashi Ukontaro
as Tatsuzo Haraguchi
as (uncredited)
as Mishima
as Company commander Yamane
as Daizaburô Tani
as Yasukichi
as Tatsu
as Fusayoshi
as Komatsu's Customer
as Porter
as Noodle Shop Owner
as Tamura
as Managing Director Tadokoro
as Hagimura
as Naosuke
as Li Gong Fu
as Osaka Salesman
as Nomura
as Joji the coolie procurer
as Kumagoro the horse thief
as Gifuya Dôki
as Yosuke Kikuchi
as Jinbei Yokoii
as Kawamoto
as Ogawa
as Chuji Tsukahara
as Sakai
as Take-san
as Fumio Sôma
as Ito
as Sakuzô Furuya
as Goro Aoyama
as Gonroku Shirai
as Mekkachi no Katsugorô
as Tokugawa Ieyasu
as Okubatake
as Noro
as Seizô Kon'no
as Kitao Omachi
as Saburo Anekoji
as Student
as Seijiro
as Fukigawa Genjiro
as Lt. Sakuragi (military doctor)
as Publicist Semi
as Ishikawa, pilot
as Kinkichi's friend, Hirose