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Kenichi Tani
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Acting
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60 titles
Known for
NRA series of mysterious robberies at gas stations across Tokyo and a seasoned detective with no leads—until his runaway son suddenly emerges as a suspect.
Musuko
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
White Jeep Patrol
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shōbushi to sono musume
1959
7.6In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
Red Angel
1966
7.3The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
The Great White Tower
1966
No synopsis available yet.
Kōkō sotsugyō zengo
1956
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
7.0Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her goes beyond how he feels about his mistress, Kanae. And yet, Akane feels alone. Now, a new tutor comes into her life that seems to have taken a liking to her...
An Ode to Yakuza
1970
5.0This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
Play It Cool
1970
NR16th in the 17 film Daiei "Woman Gambler" series
Woman Gambling Expert: Stakes of a Game of Chance
1970
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Innocent Sinner
1970
1960s · 28 titles
7.6In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.
Red Angel
1966
7.3The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.
The Great White Tower
1966
5.9A nuclear explosion in the far north unleashes Gamera, the legendary flying turtle, from his sleep under the ice. In his search for energy, Gamera wreaks havoc over the entire world, and it's up to the scientists, assisted by a young boy with a strange sympathic link to the monster, to put a stop to Gamera's rampage.
Gamera, the Giant Monster
1965
6.7Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
A Wife Confesses
1961
6.4Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.
Gamera vs. Barugon
1966
7.3After a random encounter at a bar, two couples collide. Two men, two women, embroiled in a love-and-hate drama that threatens to engulf them. The sexual anxiety between the interwoven couples tautens right up to the nearly unbearable tension of the climax...
Two Wives
1967
7.1The cunning detective Kogoro Akechi must foil a kidnapping plot orchestrated by the notorious jewel thief known as Black Lizard.
Black Lizard
1962
7.2A young intellectual conscientious objector is forced to serve with the Japanese army in Manchuria. He joins with a dim-witted former gangster in an effort to desert by stealing a train.
Hoodlum Soldier
1965
7.0Eighth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Woman Gambler and the Nun
1968
6.5A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.
Les Mesdemoiselles
1961
NRFourth film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
Thoroughbred Women Gamblers
1967
7.5"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems involving three women: his wife of ten years who announces she is pregnant by another man; a mistress who wants to have a baby with him; and an ex-lover who claims he fathered her son.
The Time of Reckoning
1968
10.0Eleventh film in the long-running series Daiei Studio's Woman Gambler with Kyoko Enami starring where she plays the woman gambler Ogin.
The Woman Gambler's Supplication
1968
7.0A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.
The Whale God
1962
6.0Chairman of the Shin Nihon Kaihatsu company Fukazawa, using clever ways to circumvent the law, rose to the top of the economic backstage. Three people are sacrificed to his greed. The president of a small company who committed suicide, a Yakuza who died during the destruction of his territory, and a former viscount whose wife and property were stolen by Fukazawa. Their sons vowed to hunt down Fukazawa and take revenge.
Black Trump Card
1964
7.0No synopsis available yet.
Closing Time
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Onsen Geisha
1963
7.0A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.
While Yet a Wife
1965
9.0Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.
The Pit of Death
1968
7.1Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Black Test Car
1962
5.5Psychological noir drama involving the tangled web of a disgraced yakuza, an innocent school girl, a blackmailed singer, and a corrupt lawyer.
The Great Villains
1968
8.0A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito.
Fools at Work
1964
7.0No synopsis available yet.
School for Thieves
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: Fainting
1969
7.0A woman has to give up her dream of becoming an actress when her family goes into debt, but she catches the eye of a businessman while working at a nightclub. He sets her up with her own nightclub, but with expectations attached.
Nocturne of a Woman
1961
NRA comedy directed by Koji Shima about a men's game. Reckless and exciting, definitely worth watching! Miyoshi Oki was born in Hokkaido and grew up in a dirty carriage that his father owned. His dream was to have a horse with a good coat that costs 10 million yen and he set a goal for it. At the invitation of Otaki-gumi executive Iwasa, he joined Otaki-gumi while the leader Sozaburo was sick. Miyoshi's method is not to deal with the yakuza's morale and slashing, but to handle things mentally....
Muchana Yakko
1964
NRThe story of three sportsman brothers living in the Ginza. One day, the three meet a raving beauty on separate occasions and are unaware they have met the same girl.
The Ginza Three Boys
1961
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Red Love, Green Love
1962
1950s · 27 titles
NRA series of mysterious robberies at gas stations across Tokyo and a seasoned detective with no leads—until his runaway son suddenly emerges as a suspect.
Musuko
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
White Jeep Patrol
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shōbushi to sono musume
1959
No synopsis available yet.
Kōkō sotsugyō zengo
1956
NRAn elderly detective and a young detective fall into a trap set by a gang of vicious robbers while escorting a suspect to the Metropolitan Police Department.
Handcuffs
1958
NRA heartwarming story about Kenta, an unfortunate boy searching for his father, and Sensei, the town’s hero and black belt.
Kenta to kurotai sensei
1957
Four trucks speeding down the Tokaido Highway in the dead of night while the muzzle of a murderer’s gun glows menacingly against the driver’s side.
Shinya no teikibin
1957
NRA series of kidnappings is occurring right under the authorities’ noses as they desperately pursue the culprits. Could the typewritten ransom note reveal the culprit?
Kidnapper
1955
NRKenta, an orphan, heads to Tokyo to find his father.
Ganbare! Kenta
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Horeruna Yanpachi
1956
NRCentered on a young college student who puts his youthful passion into developing true judo and the fiery mentor he admires and studies under.
The Birth of Judo
1955
NRAn innocent bus girl who gave up on getting into a women’s college and is now filled with new hope and the cheerful, slightly flirtatious young man who loves her, inside the car on a stormy night...
Dawn Chorus
1955
NRA passionate young man who risks his life for love and judo and the innocent young woman who adores him face off against an evil judoka at Chidorigafuchi.
The Big Four of the Kodokan
1955
6.5A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.
Night Butterflies
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Woman of Fire
1954
NRA rakugo storyteller who makes people laugh falls in love with his master’s daughter.
Naki warai jigoku gokuraku
1955
NRA poisoned mandarin orange goes missing from a murder scene and suspicion falls on a pair of beautiful sisters.
Dare ka ga korosareru
1957
A romantic action drama set in early Meiji-era Hokkaido, centered on a passionate, justice-seeking newspaper reporter who takes on an official seeking to line his own pockets, alongside an ill-fated brother and sister harboring a desire for revenge.
Eki basha osowaru
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Rakka no mon
1954
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Shabondama oyaji
1956
NRA high school girl kills her father's mistress.
Sabakareru jūdai
1956
7.1Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.
Giants and Toys
1958
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Midori no nakama
1954
NRA romantic tale depicting the beautiful and tragic love between a young man and woman from aristocratic families who are caught in the crossfire of the February 26 Incident.
The Aristocrat's Stairs
1959
NRA love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post-war period, where new customs and old traditions mix.
Made in Japan
1953
NRA social columnist and a rookie photographer are sent to cover a bank armed robbery, but a woman gets them involved with the gang of thieves. Shochiku's first 3D film.
Duel
1953
6.5Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby.
The Phantom Horse
1955
