Hayato Tani

Acting

Hayato Tani

Born

1946-09-09 (80)

Place of birth

Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

65 titles

Known for

Key Hunter poster
7.0

Key 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

Hikari Sentai Maskman poster
8.3

Commander 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

Yokomizo Seishi Series poster
7.0

TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.

Yokomizo Seishi Series

1977

Takeshi's Castle poster
8.1

Takeshi'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

Netchū Jidai poster
NR

This 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

Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen poster
NR

The 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

1970s · 23 titles

The Transgressor poster
6.4

18 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

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams poster
6.8

Rika 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

A Picture of Madame Yuki poster
NR

Set 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

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape poster
5.8

Former 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

The Japan Derby Race poster
7.0

A story about a man who stakes his life on horse racing.

The Japan Derby Race

1970

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter

1971

Wolves of the City: Checkmate poster
7.0

This 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

No artwork available
NR

A junior high school teacher is raped by several students inside the school.

A Young Female Instructor

1978

Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods poster
6.8

The 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

The School Deviate Waru poster
NR

Yoji 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

Wolves of the City, Money Hunters poster
9.0

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.

Wolves of the City, Money Hunters

1970

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stray Wolf in Snow

1970

The Experience poster
6.0

Two boys and two girls become acquainted and fall in love.

The Experience

1970

The Final Gamble poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Final Gamble

1970

Delinquent Street poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Delinquent Street

1972

Hooligans on Buggies poster
9.0

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.

Hooligans on Buggies

1970

The Incident at Takanodai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Incident at Takanodai

1973

Reformatory Buddies poster
NR

Third film in the series.

Reformatory Buddies

1974

Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance poster
8.0

The hoodlum group goes to a hot-spring resort town to earn money.

Wolves of the City, Take Your Chance

1970

Love Lost in Tears poster
7.0

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.

Love Lost in Tears

1973

The School of Chaos poster
7.0

Based on the manga by Tetsu Kariya and Ryouichi Ikegami.

The School of Chaos

1975

Peman 80 poster
NR

1980's Toho comedy

Peman 80

1979

Minato no Yoko Yokohama Yokosuka poster
NR

A 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

Pretty Devil Yoko poster
3.3

Easily 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

Only on Mondays poster
6.7

Yuka 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

Organized Violence II poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Organized Violence II

1967

Delinquent Boss: Wolves of the City poster
8.5

Kosaka 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

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze poster
7.7

The 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

Rampaging Dragon of the North poster
7.0

The 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

Port City Blues poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Port City Blues

1969

Black Sun poster
6.4

Akira, 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

Once and For All Pt.2 poster
9.0

Continuation of the film Once and For All about two yakuza brothers Joji and Goro.

Once and For All Pt.2

1968

Once and For All poster
10.0

Film concerning warring yakuza families.

Once and For All

1967

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: The Vagrant Comes to a Port Town poster
6.5

Katsuji 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

Wolf Escort poster
8.0

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and gangster organization.

Wolf Escort

1969

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm poster
9.0

Convict son revenges innocent father's death.

A Story from Abashiri Prison—Duel in Snow Storm

1967

The Bad Boss poster
NR

The 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

Abashiri Prison: Duel in the South poster
7.0

This 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

Wild Spirit poster
NR

It 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

The Bullet and the Horse poster
9.0

A 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

The Bad Boss 3 poster
10.0

A story of rivalry between two gambling clans.

The Bad Boss 3

1969

Nagasaki Blues poster
NR

Japanese “kayo” film based on the song by Mina Aoe.

Nagasaki Blues

1969

Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat" poster
7.0

Tokyo hoodlums travel to Osaka and enter into rivalry with the local gangsters.

Wolves of the City, Operation "Rat"

1969

The Bad Guy Blues poster
7.0

A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

The Bad Guy Blues

1969

Nocturnal Lights poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nocturnal Lights

1966

Dai san no jôji poster
NR

Pinku from 1965.

Dai san no jôji

1965

No artwork available
NR

A young woman leaves her hometown to find work in the city

Secret Turkish Bath

1968

Series credits

Key Hunter poster
7.0

Key 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

Hikari Sentai Maskman poster
8.3

Commander 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

Yokomizo Seishi Series poster
7.0

TV series starring Ikko Furuya, based on the Kosuke Kindaichi mystery novel series by Seishi Yokomizo.

Yokomizo Seishi Series

1977

Takeshi's Castle poster
8.1

Takeshi'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

Netchū Jidai poster
NR

This 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

Necchu Jidai: Keiji Hen poster
NR

The 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

Three Sisters Investigate poster
NR

Three 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

Takeshi's Castle Japan poster
6.3

Worldwide 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

Daihijôsen poster
NR

An 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

Eyeful Daisakusen poster
NR

A 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

Behind the camera