Acting

Tamotsu Tamura

Born

1931-02-06 (95)

Place of birth

Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

29 titles

Known for

Operation: Mystery poster
7.7

Advancements in science and the unchanging human psyche have given rise to new forms of terrifying crimes as the Science Research Institute (SRI) investigates various strange phenomena in Japan.

Operation: Mystery

1968

Chiba Shusaku: Kendo Masshigura poster
NR

Chiba Shusaku: Kendo Masshigura is a Japanese period drama that aired on the TBS network from November 2, 1970 to August 30, 1971 in the "Brother Gekijo" slot. It ran for 44 colour episodes of 30 minutes each. Based on Sohachi Yamaoka's novel "Chiba Shusaku", it depicts the youth of Chiba Shusaku, founder of the Hokushin Itto-ryu school of swordsmanship. A hot-blooded young man who calls himself Shusaku enters the dojo of Asari Matashichiro and, through encounters with all kinds of people, grows rapidly both in swordsmanship and in character. Produced by TBS and Shochiku. Rerun on the Japanese CS channel Jidaigeki Senmon Channel from March 17, 2025.

Chiba Shusaku: Kendo Masshigura

1970

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity poster
8.2

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1959

Demons poster
7.7

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that in order to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

Demons

1971

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby poster
6.0

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

1973

Akitsu Hot Springs poster
6.5

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

Demons poster
7.7

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is also in love with a greedy geisha named Koman. About to be sold to another man, Gengobe learns that in order to keep her, her debt is exactly 100 ryo.

Demons

1971

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby poster
6.0

Reform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents. But who's protecting the juvenile delinquents from corrupt reform schools? Rica could be considered a bit of an expert on reform schools, having spent most of her early life in and out of them. When Rica is dragged back once again, she gets a severe beating and is finally sent off to a mental hospital with the intention of selling her and her pals into a slave trade. A trader takes Rica's friend Jun to a mountain cottage where she's pegged for the lead in his clandestine porno film operation. Once again, it's up to tough-as-nails Rica to bust up this corrupt racket once and for all!

Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby

1973

Slaughter in the Snow poster
6.7

In feudal Japan, women are vulnerable, in need of protection, and capable of deception. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter, has not yet fully revenged the death of his wife and son. He searches for Kunisada Chuji, who in turn has hired the knife-throwing Windmill Kobunji to kill him. Kobunji and Jokichi meet in the winter, near Sasago Pass, when both have rescued women: Jokichi has saved the lute-playing Oyae whose clan and whose lover want her dead; Kobunji has rescued Oharu, a well-born woman married to an innkeeper. Is this rescue a whim or something deeper? And why does Jokichi become the consumptive Kobunji's protector? What ultimately will Jokichi do about Oyae?

Slaughter in the Snow

1973

Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl poster
4.9

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl crime gang.

Rika: The Mixed-Blood Girl

1972

1960s · 12 titles

Akitsu Hot Springs poster
6.5

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Akitsu Hot Springs

1962

Maiko and the Assassin poster
NR

19th century Japan, at the end of the Edo period. A samurai falls in love with a young woman while taking up arms to overthrow the local shogunate.

Maiko and the Assassin

1963

前科・仮釈放 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

前科・仮釈放

1969

Tokyo Ninja Force poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo Ninja Force

1966

Irohanihoheto poster
NR

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand, Detective Muneharu Matsumoto of the Metropolitan Police Department's Second Investigative Division has suspicions about this organization, and has been spying on the business association for many years. However, Matsumoto was having a hard time getting any solid proof of the nature of the incident...

Irohanihoheto

1960

Whistling Drifter poster
NR

Friendship between good samurais and aborigines in Hokkaido.

Whistling Drifter

1961

No artwork available
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Rush to Our Sweetheart

1963

兵六大臣行状記 漁色のこよみ poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

兵六大臣行状記 漁色のこよみ

1961

Towering Waves poster
2.7

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major corruption scandal. Torn between professional duty and their forbidden affair, the couple finds themselves trapped by societal expectations and legal consequences.

Towering Waves

1960

Utau abarenbō poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Utau abarenbō

1962

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Parakin to Kyū-chan mōshiwakenai yarō-tachi

1962

No artwork available
NR

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

1960

1950s · 11 titles

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity poster
8.2

Kaji, sent to the Japanese army labeled Red, witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against a fellow recruit. He also sees his friend Shinjô defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity

1959

Black River poster
7.0

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Black River

1957

The Rose on His Arm poster
5.8

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

The Rose on His Arm

1956

Youth poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Youth

1955

Flying in the Air poster
10.0

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

Flying in the Air

1957

Confronting Fear poster
NR

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger brother Fumio, who is going to become a boxer and dreams of owning his own car repair shop. Goro tries to help Fumio, but is refused. At this time, the boss of the underworld, whom Goro met in prison, is released, and this escalates into a confrontation involving Goro and Fumio.

Confronting Fear

1958

Yosakoi shigure poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yosakoi shigure

1959

The Lady Was Pawn poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Lady Was Pawn

1956

Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Karada no naka o kaze ga fuku

1957

Sisters poster
7.0

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city. They stay with their kind-hearted aunt and her jovial but heavy-drinking carpenter husband. Keiko, the 17-year-old eldest of five siblings, is gentle and responsible, while 14-year-old Toshiko is lively and childlike, affectionately called "Konchi."

Sisters

1955

Age of Resistance poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Age of Resistance

1958

Series credits