
Acting
Hayato Tani
Born
1946-09-09 (80)
Place of birth
Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 titles
Known for
7.0Key Hunter is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network from April 6, 1968 to April 7, 1973. There were a total of 262 episodes, and it was one of the most popular action dramas in Japan at the time. The story involved "Key Hunter", a special clandestine unit of the International Police, which endeavored to solve various crimes. "Key Hunter" was a unique TV show, which started out as a grand scale spy thriller never before seen in Japan. The episodes were individually themed on global crimes and political strife. The initial hardboiled theme later evolved to include intellectual elements involving action, and occasionally with comical elements as well. Tetsuro Tamba starred in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice as Japanese Secret Service agent Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond. This role greatly influenced his image in "Key Hunter".
Key Hunter
1968
8.3Commander Sugata discovered the existence of the Royal Underground Empire Tube, a malignant force that desires to dominate the land, which is based underneath Japan. He recruits five young people, each one specializing in a style of martial arts, and teaches them in the ways of the mystical "Aura Power" energy. A year after he recruited and trained the Maskmen, Tube is ready to strike.
Hikari Sentai Maskman
1987
7.0TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
8.1Takeshi's Castle is a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1990, on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It features the Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult challenges for players (or a volunteer army) to get to him.
Takeshi's Castle
1986
NRThis light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and struggles to live and grow in the field of education.
Netchū Jidai
1978
NRThe struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch. Takeshi Hayano originally belonged to the Traffic Division but was transferred to the First Investigative Division of Daimon Police Station as a rookie detective. His first case is a drug-related murder, during which he ends up missing a "key witness" pursued by his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division. Feeling responsible, Hayano becomes depressed. Investigations, daily life, and relationships. Each episode features a variety of cases, including robbery, arson, disguise, kidnapping, fraud, and split personalities. Hayano investigates the cases together with his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division (Chief Ushiota, Chief Detective Sugaya, Detective Yazu, Detective Maehara, Detective Hazama, etc.).
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1979
Film credits
1980s · 6 titles
6.7Takeru fights to rescue a mermaid living in an underground pool being used by Igam to cause massive earthquakes to the surface.
Hikari Sentai Maskman: The Movie
1987
8.8A 19-year-old girl Hiroko Terasawa working in a matching agency promises her client Masakazu Sekine that she'll pose as his fiancée for a remarkable cash reward. Hiroko moves to Sekine's mansion and prepares to attend the family's meeting. However, this only turns out to be a prelude of a bloody fight over the family's legacy.
Kekkon Annai Mystery
1985
7.7A High Class Call Girl is revisited by her ex lover who she thought died 5 years prior.
Call Girl
1982
NRHimeshiro is a wandering yakuza, his father was the best doctor in the eight provinces of the Kanto region, and Himeshiro took over the knowledge of medicine from his father. If he encounters a sick person on the way, he uses his right hand, wrapped in a rosary, to give medical attention, while if he sees a bad person, he draws his sword with his left hand and uses it to punish the evildoers. So he travels on the verge of life and death along the Nakasendo highway...
Wandering Himeshiro
1982
4.3A struggling single mother catches the eye of a rising executive and gains power and wealth as his mistress. But beware, power is fleeting.
Empress
1983
NRA despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Matsubara). The wife finally kills him, but...
The House of Evil: Dangerous Temptation
1980
1970s · 23 titles
6.418 years after the mysterious death of her mother, Maya takes religious vows to find out what terrible things happened to her mother inside the Sacred Heart Convent. As soon as the door closes to the nunnery, the nuns start torturing her. She also has to deal with a lecherous archbishops and a lesbian mother superior.
The Transgressor
1974
6.8Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by Junko Miyazono.
Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970
NRSet against the dramatic backdrop of the downfall of an old aristocratic family, this is the story of its last representant: Lady Yuki.
A Picture of Madame Yuki
1975
5.8Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971
7.0A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.
The Japan Derby Race
1970
8.0No synopsis available yet.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
7.0This is the sixth film in the series. There were seventeen Wolves of the City films between 1968 & 1974, in the main aimed at shock-value & “pinku” soft-core with sex, nudity, violence, gunplay, & a lot of mainly pointless foolishness when the biker gang coopts racist or nazi imagery, inventing a non-existent youth culture void of morality…
Wolves of the City: Checkmate
1970
A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.
A Young Female Instructor
1978
6.8The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black leather outfit and cowboy hat - reminiscent of the earlier war victors. Old and new grudges lead the two girl gangs to clash in several fights. However, when one of the leaders dies, the girls end up by uniting against the male gangsters that had been using them as puppets - and it all ends in a great finale mixed battle by the seashore.
Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
1971
NRYoji Himuro (Hayato Tani) is a ruthless bully terrorizing the classroom with his buffoons. New teachers (Kunie Tanaka and Mari Atsumi) get assigned to tame him down, but they fail miserably. Yoji continues his no-respect rampage until the school principal brings in a new student, an American educated karate expert Noboru Ohinata (Yuki Meguro), to counter Yoji’s terror!
The School Deviate Waru
1973
9.0The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
1970
7.0No synopsis available yet.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow
1970
6.0Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.
The Experience
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Final Gamble
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Delinquent Street
1972
9.0Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
Hooligans on Buggies
1970
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Incident at Takanodai
1973
NRThird film in the series.
Reformatory Buddies
1974
8.0The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.
Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance
1970
7.0Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
Love Lost in Tears
1973
7.0Based on the manga by Tetsu Kariya and Ryouichi Ikegami.
The School of Chaos
1975
NR1980's Toho comedy
Peman 80
1979
NRA young girl travels between Yokohama and Yokosuka, searching for her older sister to tell her about their mother's death.
Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka
1975
1960s · 24 titles
3.3Easily bored, but still innocent and naive countryside girl discovers partying in Tokyo is a ton of fun. Yakuza-to-be is an acquaintance who tries to rape her, and the typically bland but very-good-here the first boyfriend.
Pretty Devil Yoko
1966
6.7Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
Only on Mondays
1964
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Organized Violence II
1967
8.5Kosaka Hiroshi is a small time swindler and the boss of a motorcycle gang in Shinjuku. Living only to make money, he never made the big time until he gets involved with a Yakuza's daughter. But when he gets involved in a scheme to blackmail a Yakuza gang and a land developer, he realizes he's gone way over his head…
Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City
1969
7.7The film is dedicated to the souls of flight school graduates killed in World War II. Young boys dream about becoming pilots and apply to flight schools. However, the flight schools have extremely demanding, harsh training, and once they finally become pilots, they must become suicide bombers and give their lives for their homeland.
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968
7.0The son of a prominent member of a fishing community returns home after a stint with the yakuza to find his father has died under orders of a local gang leader. He sets out to avenge his father, keeping his plans secret from his mother who is cold to him since his perceived abandonment of the family. This wonderful, if little-seen, Fukasaku gem deals with family, community and what it means to do right by both.
Rampaging Dragon of the North
1966
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Port City Blues
1969
6.4Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the death of a white GI. Despite terrible misunderstandings and culture clash, Akira agrees to help Gill escape towards the sea, dodging military police along the way.
Black Sun
1964
9.0Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.
Once and For All Pt.2
1968
10.0Film concerning warring yakuza families.
Once and For All
1967
6.5Katsuji takes revenge on evil Tamaru who forcefully took control of the fishery business run by Katsuji’s friend.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town
1969
8.0Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.
Wolf Escort
1969
9.0Convict son revenges innocent father's death.
A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm
1967
NRThe first in what would become Toei's most successful, longest-running bosozoku film series. It lasted from 1968 till 1972 through sixteen films.
The Bad Boss
1968
7.0This is the sixth film in the "Abashiri Series," based on an original idea by Hajime Ito, and written and directed by Teruo Ishii of "Operation Big Bad" fame. The film was shot by Kiichi Inada, who also worked with Ito.
Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South
1966
NRIt has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.
Wild Spirit
1967
9.0A number of recently released prisoners become involved in a racket with a rancher who is a rival to a neighboring landowner and wants to use the convicts to seize his ranch. The rancher does not know, however, that he had years before killed the parents of one of their number.
The Bullet and the Horse
1966
10.0A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.
The Bad Boss 3
1969
NRJapanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.
Nagasaki Blues
1969
7.0Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.
Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"
1969
7.0A story about club hostesses in Osaka.
The Bad Guy Blues
1969
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Nocturnal Lights
1966
NRPinku from 1965.
Dai san no jôji
1965
A young woman leaves her hometown to find work in the city
Secret Turkish Bath
1968
Series credits
7.0Key Hunter is a prime-time Japanese television detective series. It aired on Saturday nights in the 9:00–9:56 p.m. time slot on the Tokyo Broadcasting System network from April 6, 1968 to April 7, 1973. There were a total of 262 episodes, and it was one of the most popular action dramas in Japan at the time. The story involved "Key Hunter", a special clandestine unit of the International Police, which endeavored to solve various crimes. "Key Hunter" was a unique TV show, which started out as a grand scale spy thriller never before seen in Japan. The episodes were individually themed on global crimes and political strife. The initial hardboiled theme later evolved to include intellectual elements involving action, and occasionally with comical elements as well. Tetsuro Tamba starred in the 1967 film You Only Live Twice as Japanese Secret Service agent Tiger Tanaka, an ally of James Bond. This role greatly influenced his image in "Key Hunter".
Key Hunter
1968
8.3Commander Sugata discovered the existence of the Royal Underground Empire Tube, a malignant force that desires to dominate the land, which is based underneath Japan. He recruits five young people, each one specializing in a style of martial arts, and teaches them in the ways of the mystical "Aura Power" energy. A year after he recruited and trained the Maskmen, Tube is ready to strike.
Hikari Sentai Maskman
1987
7.0TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.
Yokomizo Seishi Series
1977
8.1Takeshi's Castle is a Japanese game show that aired between 1986 and 1990, on the Tokyo Broadcasting System. It features the Japanese comedian Takeshi Kitano (also known as Beat Takeshi) as a count who owns a castle and sets up difficult challenges for players (or a volunteer army) to get to him.
Takeshi's Castle
1986
NRThis light-hearted comedy tells the story of a young man who chooses to become a teacher and struggles to live and grow in the field of education.
Netchū Jidai
1978
NRThe struggle of a rookie detective, portrayed with a cheerful and comical touch. Takeshi Hayano originally belonged to the Traffic Division but was transferred to the First Investigative Division of Daimon Police Station as a rookie detective. His first case is a drug-related murder, during which he ends up missing a "key witness" pursued by his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division. Feeling responsible, Hayano becomes depressed. Investigations, daily life, and relationships. Each episode features a variety of cases, including robbery, arson, disguise, kidnapping, fraud, and split personalities. Hayano investigates the cases together with his senior colleagues in the First Investigative Division (Chief Ushiota, Chief Detective Sugaya, Detective Yazu, Detective Maehara, Detective Hazama, etc.).
Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen
1979
NRThree sisters, all otherwise typical junior, high school student and college students, who, while probing into the murder case of their father, get themselves in the middle of other cases and wind up becoming detectives themselves.
Three Sisters Investigate
1998
6.3Worldwide sensation Takeshi's Castle returns after 34 years! Popular games are revived on a larger scale and new, terrifying obstacles appear one after another. The lord of the castle, Beat Takeshi, entrusts BANANAMAN to protect it. Subaru Kimura is the attack force's new leader. The elite team gathers to bring down the revived Takeshi's Castle. The greatest battle in history begins!
Takeshi's Castle Japan
2023
NRAn action detective drama depicting the activities of detectives belonging to a fictional department called the Fifth Investigation Division of the Metropolitan Police Department, commonly known as "Danger". From January to March 1976, a total of 10 episodes were broadcast on the NET (now TV Asahi) the leading role is Shinichi Chiba.
Daihijôsen
1976
NRA story about the principal of the "Aiful" Detective School, Ryoko Kishi (Mayumi Ogawa), and her students, who attend various crime scenes every time they attend classes about detectives and actually solve the cases. Compared to the previous work "Key Hunter", the content was developed with a slightly stronger comedy color.
Eyeful Daisakusen
1973

