Tamotsu Hayakawa

Acting

Tamotsu Hayakawa

Born

1936-04-18 (90)

Place of birth

Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

30 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

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

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso poster
9.0

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

Bungakusho Satsujin Jiken: Oinaru Jyoso

1989

Twin Sisters of Kyoto poster
6.5

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

1963

The Sunshine Girl poster
5.7

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

The Sunshine Girl

1963

Assassination poster
7.1

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Assassination

1964

Film credits

1980s · 3 titles

1960s · 23 titles

Twin Sisters of Kyoto poster
6.5

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins bring bad luck, so the sister was abandoned at birth. Later her parents tell her that her sister was kidnapped. The woman doesn't believe this and when she eventually meets her twin, both women are involved in love affairs. The merchant's daughter is seeing an educated fellow. Trouble ensues when she begins suspecting that he may be more interested in her sister.

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

1963

The Sunshine Girl poster
5.7

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

The Sunshine Girl

1963

Assassination poster
7.1

In 1863, when American warships approach Japan, an enigmatic ronin becomes an important figure in a complex game of power between the Shogunate and the empire.

Assassination

1964

A Flame at the Pier poster
6.1

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was responsible for saving his life as a baby, he falls victim to a manipulative cycle of deceit and revenge.

A Flame at the Pier

1962

Snow Country poster
6.7

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Snow Country

1965

The Scarlet Camellia poster
5.2

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her.

The Scarlet Camellia

1964

Hadashi no hanayome poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Hadashi no hanayome

1962

Glory on the Summit poster
9.0

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.

Glory on the Summit

1962

Three Faces of Love poster
9.0

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama. Only one daughter cares to carry on her father's work, but she is met with resistance from her stepmother. One sister cares nothing for the artisan tradition, while the other is an icy opportunist whose only love is for money. It is the daughter who cares the most for her father's work who wanders away in a symbolic journey of self discovery.

Three Faces of Love

1967

Ai to kanashimi to poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Ai to kanashimi to

1962

18 Roughs poster
6.7

Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its running. After moving in, Shimazaki finds out that this will also mean taking care of a flock of youngsters, and he soon becomes their none-too-successful warden. At work the boys are disciplined, as soon as they return to their dormitory however they turn into an unmanageable mob.

18 Roughs

1963

Shichinin no keiji poster
NR

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out for a drive, the strangled corpse of a call girl is discovered in Toyamagahara. Chief Akagi, Detective Sergeant Sawada, and the other detectives begin to suspect Koji during their investigation. Koji insists he's innocent, but has no evidence to prove it. Even when detectives come to Miyoko's home and workplace and her coworkers begin to look down on her, Miyoko continues to trust and love Koji...

Shichinin no keiji

1963

Mother Country poster
6.8

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtropical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.

Mother Country

1962

Ano hito wa ima poster
NR

1963 Japanese movie

Ano hito wa ima

1963

Stray Dog poster
7.0

Stray Dog is a 1966 film directed by Yoshio Inoue. It is the seventh film in the Inu series.

Stray Dog

1966

Record of a  Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Pregnancy

1968

Woman of the Lake poster
7.1

A married woman lets her lover take naked pictures of her. The photos end up in possession of a man who starts blackmailing the couple.

Woman of the Lake

1966

Niji o tsukamu odoriko poster
NR

A light-hearted coming-of-age drama directed by Tsuneo Tabata, with the original story and screenplay by Masashige Narusawa.

Niji o tsukamu odoriko

1963

陽のあたる坂道 poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

陽のあたる坂道

1967

Aruhi watashi wa poster
NR

The four kinds of love that Yuriko experiences, namely, a childhood longing love, a dream of marriage, a maternal love, and a destined love between parents and children over two generations, as well as the sisterly love between Yuriko and her sister Kaori.

Aruhi watashi wa

1967

Wakai nobara poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wakai nobara

1965

Ane to imôto poster
NR

A drama centered on women, adapted from the novel of the same name by Ineko Sata.

Ane to imôto

1965

Ai, sono kiseki poster
NR

1964 Japanese movie

Ai, sono kiseki

1964

Series credits