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Haruo Tanaka (田中 春男 Tanaka Haruo, 25 March 1912 – 21 February 1992) was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades.
Total trailers found: 197
09 October 1956
Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.
18 July 1961
The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon.
07 May 1953
33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife.
28 April 1959
Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a lady.
09 October 1952
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades.
10 November 1963
Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.
01 May 1952
Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
09 April 1961
The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo resolves to end his clan's exile and avenge the brutal loss in December, 1159 as they had fought under the white banner of the Emperor, while the Taira fought under their red flags in a battle to the death.
21 April 1958
A poor rickshaw driver finds himself helping a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly.
20 September 1959
A man is brutally murdered and his famed shamisen (a three-stringed musical instrument) called the "Yamabiko" stolen.
29 October 1957
A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of her missing husband.
20 June 1954
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows interest and starts to woo her.
09 May 1964
A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest.
01 April 1972
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison.
05 June 1960
Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence.
12 July 1956
Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke.
07 December 1964
Young Lord Takenaka stands to succeed his father until a series of violent actions lead his retainers to think that he has gone mad with blood-lust.
02 September 1948
A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house and decides to marry her.
14 April 1951
A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.
17 June 1953
The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
04 April 1962
Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract with a large Chinese company.
31 July 1969
Popular geisha Shinji (Fuji Junko) must defy a gang who plot to steal a lucrative coal business from struggling miners during the turbulent Meiji Era.
11 July 1964
The main character Tachibana Isaburo is released from prison and discovers that his boss is dead. He is offered to become the leader of the group, but refuses.
13 August 1971
Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
05 March 1953
Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
13 January 1966
Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the boss of the rival Sakaki Family.
02 November 1951
After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle.
22 September 1962
In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young yakuza named Eijiro after he runs afoul of the new samurai officials who have taken over his hometown.
23 August 1949
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store.
07 July 1959
A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.
13 October 1957
Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and resilience.
30 June 1963
This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period.
03 June 1953
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
14 October 1961
Megastar Kataoka Chiezo is Vice-commander Hijikata Toshizo of the Shinsengumi in this realistic tale of Japan’s inner battles that led to the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate.
12 August 1965
Third part of Nihon Kyokakuden series is set in Kanto in 1924. Ken Takakura playing a ship's mate befriending fish shop owners harassed by yakuza.
08 August 1956
While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.
20 April 1958
Fourth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".
10 February 1963
The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle.
10 February 1944
This film was made by the Japanese occupation authorities in the Philippines as a propaganda film to show the Philippine people the "benefits" of the Japanese invasion and takeover of their country.
07 September 1948
Postwar! Baseball! Comedy! Enoken plays a superfan of the Yomiuri Giants – the real Tokyo team, with many of its star players "acting" as themselves – who, despite his utter lack of athletic abilities, becomes embroiled in their successes, and their personal lives.
30 April 1957
Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child.
05 August 1945
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister.
18 September 1965
Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.
12 May 1959
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set.
03 January 1962
Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a drug deal taking place at their theater.
23 February 1960
Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not knowing what tomorrow may bring.
08 November 1962
The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
01 January 1981
The story is set in Bakumatsu and revolves around the Bunta Sugawara character, a yakuza (of course :) but instead of a modern yakuza/gangster, he's a gambler/bakuto).
22 June 1956
Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.
22 October 1958
Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide.
04 October 1980
A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance.
22 November 1960
A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.
03 August 1974
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868).
03 January 1961
Fishmonger Tasuke and Shogun Iemitsu swap their identities in pretence for the protection of Iemitsu.
