Jirō Tamiya
Acting
Biography
Jirō Tamiya was born on 25 August 1935 in Kyoto City, Japan. He was an actor and producer, known for Miyamoto Musashi (1973), 3000 kiro no wana (1971) and Kuro no tesuto kâ (1962). He was married to Yukiko Fuji. He died on 29 December 1978 in Tokyo, Japan.
Born: August 25, 1935
Place of Birth: Osaka, Japan
Known For
The Family
Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.
Cobra
Japanese crime film.
Theater Of Life
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.
Flower and Dragon
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.
The White Tower
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
Welcome to the High Plains
As a former manager of a top hotel, Seiji has been entrusted with the reopening of a hotel in the high plains that has been boarded up and closed for years. With a budget of 20 million, he begins to hire interesting characters to work there and rebuild the hotel. However, his attempts to get a top chef to draw customers fail. The staff members begin to worry about the hotel's future and try to leave, but at precisely that moment, an elderly man who used to be a chef at a top hotel pays a visit. Will this mean success for Seiji or just add to his troubles?
Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree
Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...
Superexpress
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express
The Third Will
A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.
White Shadow
Noriko Shimura is on duty for the first time at Gyoda Hospital. The duty doctor is Yosuke Naoe. After 9PM Jiro Toda, a childhood friend of Noriko's, is brought in with a cut to his forehead from a fight. But Naoe has gone out for a drink, and can't be found. Both Toda and the ambulance crew become angry and demand to know where the doctor is. Naoe returns and seeing the commotion, he orders Toda be locked in a toilet until he calms down. Noriko is horrified by Naoe's attitude but is later impressed with his ability as a surgeon when treating Toda' s injury. This is their first fateful meeting...
Filmography
as Gorō Zaizen
as Kyosuke Mimura
as Komura
as Takigawa
as Narrator
as Ryuzo Nakane
as Shigeo Sugiyama
as Komura
as Ataru Mima
as Kimura
as Kojiro Sasaki
as Baian Fujieda
as Teruhiko Kujo
as Hitoshi Fujii
as Akira Tamon
as Nihei Tokuda
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Yoshio Kasai
as Gorō Akune
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Ryuji Ujiie
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Goro Zaizen
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Keiichi Kikyo
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Seiji
as Daisuke Kamoi
as Kenichiro Ishizuka
as Takuya Tsuda
as Izumida
as Keisuke Ozeki
as Kyosuke Nakabe
as Ryokichi Ibuki
as Hidejirô Ôgiya
as Eiji Tsutsumi
as Satoru Fuji
as Yutaka Asahina
as Seiji
as Asai
as Sada
as Motor Sada
as Susumu Sekine
as Shûtarô Maki
as Magazine writer Jiro
as Masao Kumagi
as Shimpei Kakei
as Shinichi Mouri
as Koichi, Shinobu's brother
as Jirō Kosaka
as Salesman
as (as Gorō Shibata)
as Saburō (as Gorō Shibata)
as (as Gorō Shibata)
as Student (uncredited)
as (as Gorō Shibata)
as Kinoshita (as Gorō Shibata)
as (as Gorō Shibata)
as Takenaka
as Plane Passenger (uncredited)
as (as Gorō Shibata)
as Shuji's old friend
as Student
as Newspaper photographer
as (uncredited)