Tatsuya Nakadai
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Svelte leading man Tatsuya Nakadai has worked with some of the most respected directors in Japan during his 50-year acting career. His first notable role was as the hero of Masaki Kobayashi's trilogy, Ningen No Joken (The Human Condition). Completing... more
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Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Kihachi Okamoto Hiroyuki Sanada Takehiro Murata Kyoka Suzuki
Length: 88min
Veteran filmmaker Kihachi Okamoto revives his similarly named 1960s television series about happy-go-lucky avenger-for-hire Sukeroku (Hiroyuki Sanada) who prefers to brandish a wooden pole or a rope rather than a sword. The film opens with Sukeroku...
To Dance With the White Dog (2002)
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Takashi Tsukinoki Kohsuke Toyohara Shiho Fujimura Kaho Minami
Length: min
Former Shohei Imamura and Takeshi Kitaro assistant Takashi Tsukinoki makes his own feature-film directorial debut with To Dance With the White Dog, the story of an elderly Japanese man's struggle to cope with the loss of his wife of 40 years. After a...
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Yoshimitsu Morita Shinobu Otake Hitomi Kuroki Eri Fukatsu
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Drama
Length: 135min
Yoshimitsu Morita's comedy drama Ashura No Gotoku (Like Ashura) tells the story of what happens to four sisters when they discover a secret their father has been keeping. The film opens with third sister Takiko (Eri Fukatsu) revealing to the others...
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Hiroshi Teshigahara Hisashi Igawa
Length: 147min
Acclaimed filmmaker, actor, and head of the Sogetsu school of Ikebana, Hiroshi Teshigahara spins this sequel of sorts to his 1991 work Rikyu. In that film, tea ceremony master Sen no Rikyu dares to speak his conscience and is in turn forced to commit...
Bosatsu: Shimoyama Jiken (1982)
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Kei Kumai Kaneko Iwasaki Ichiro Hashimoto Kei Yamamoto
Tags: Docudrama Political Drama Detective Film Mystery
Length: 132min
Released outside of Japan as Willful Murder, this is based on an actual 1948 case involving the mysterious death of a government official. The president of the Japanese railroads is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued by...
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Tsui Hark Yuen Woo Ping Peter Mak Jacky Cheung
Tags: Sci-Fi Action
Length: 98min
Peter Mak Tai-kit spins this exuberant, visually dense adaptation from the popular similarly named Japanese anime. The film is set in a world where shape-shifting alien creatures known as Raptors have infiltrated human society. To deal with this...
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Shima Iwashita Hideo Gosha Masako Natsume Tetsuro Tamba
Length: 146min
In this brutal Japanese melodrama, the gangster boss of the town of Shikoku had been in charge since 1921. Though he is married and has two mistresses, the yakuza leader has no children so he adopts a pre-adolescent girl. The two become very close,...
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai Masaki Kobayashi Toru Takemitsu Mayumi Ogawa Kiichi Nakai
Length: 143min
This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation. Director Masaki Kobayashi has used real events so the dramatic turns in the film are based...
Cast: Akira Kurosawa Francis Ford Coppola George Lucas Tatsuya Nakadai Takashi Shimura
Tags: Samurai Film Historical Epic Epic
Length: 179min
Just as many American studio-era directors found acclaim abroad that was denied them in their home country, by 1980 Akira Kurosawa's reputation outside Japan exceeded his esteem at home. As uncompromising as ever, he found considerable difficulty...
Cast: Akira Kurosawa William Shakespeare Tatsuya Nakadai Toru Takemitsu Shinobu Muraki
Tags: Tragedy
Length: 160min
Ran is Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's reinterpretation of William Shakespeare's +King Lear. The Lear counterpart is an elderly 16th-century warlord (Tatsuya Nakadai), who announces that he's about to divide his kingdom equally among his three...
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