Ken Tanaka Movies

Remake of 1949 film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miyu Yoshimoto

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

In between the original 1963 13 ASSASSINS film and the 2010 remake by Miike Takashi, Fuji TV produced a version for TV. Starring Nakadai Tatsuya and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Originally released in Japan as "The Return of Godzilla" in 1984, this is the heavily re-edited, re-titled "Godzilla 1985". Adding in new footage...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raymond Burr

By chance, Watabe (Goro Kishitani) meets subordinate worker Nakanishi (Kyoko Fukada) at a batting center. A friendship occurs which leads to a heated...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Goro Kishitani

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mayu Miyamoto

Shinichi Tominaga is a prosecutor, newly appointed to the special investigation division for the Tokyo district prosecutors' office. He is currently...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Tamaki

The fish market is to be moved to Shinagawa, and Tasuke Isshin (Jun Inoue) got in trouble. Hikosaemon Ookubo (Eijiro Tono) heard of it from Tasuke,...

Genre: History

Cast: Yoshie Ichige

This is a story of "Takechiyo," the previous name of Iemitsu Tokunaga, the third Shogun (General). Takechiyo got sick of daily run-of-the-mill tasks,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takanobu Hozumi

A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

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Cast: Tsurube Shofukutei

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiko Matsuda

Drama set in the world of Formula 2 motor racing in Japan.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Fujishita Kumi is an ordinary office lady. Longing to escape her poor fishing village for a life in the city, she came to Tokyo. One day while alone...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

The sisters lived near a pond called Koigafuchi, near Edo, and kept a father-and-son cat named Tama and Kaze. The elder sister, Oichi, was discovered...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

Mainly the story of Shinsuke and his stepmother, ranging from Shinsuke's infanthood to his mid-teens. Coal workers and the mines dominate nearly...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Mid 50s: the trials and tribulations of Shinsuke Ibuki, freshly arrived in Tokyo from Kyushu.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

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Cast: Léona Hirota

In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kentaro Akizuki

The year 1864: The Shinsengumi, the shogun’s armed force in Kyoto ripped the city apart, with blades in hand, searching for pockets of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

This extraordinarily complex film is not only a send-up of every samurai film ever made, it is also an extrapolation of the value of life. The...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Jun Fubuki

Benio, a peppy tomboy, is surprised to learn that she has been secretly betrothed by her grandfather to a young officer named Shinobu Ijuin. Because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

The last years of a painter, a tattoo artist, and a man who always pursues beauty regardless of authenticity. Why does the man insist that even his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sei Hiraizumi

After a fishing boat is attacked, the sole surviving crew member realizes it is none other than a resurrected Godzilla. However, efforts to bring the...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Tatsumura Yusuke, Toho Advertising's deputy sales manager was a childhood friend of Akiko and Katsuya. In fact, there is a secret that cannot be...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Seiyo Uchino

During the age of warring clans (Sengoku Jidai), many samurai lords sought to unite the country under their banners by becoming the supreme leader....

Genre: History

Cast: Ken Matsudaira

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

A 30-year-old man's life gets up-ended when his girlfriend accepts an arranged marriage meeting with a more successful man.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinobu Ôtake

Tetsuro Haga is a troubled gangster, living under the assumed identity Ise for ten years, to escape jail for gunning down his cruel adoptive father....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Yakusho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Tanaka

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Cast: Nenji Kobayashi

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Cast: Reiko Takashima

The tale of hardship, love, determination and life of Mineko, a young maiko (apprentice geisha) in the Gion district of Kyoto.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue

Yuri, who works for a company that specializes in collecting information for television programs, visits Akiruno city in Tokyo, where Itsukaichi-cho...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kumiko Endo

Some of the greatest battles during the Age of Civil Wars were fought between the Uesugi and Takeda clans. Leading up to them was the incredible life...

Genre: History

Cast: Kumiko Akiyoshi

In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Tanaka

The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Keiko Masuda

Through the relationship between a woman who has lost her husband and her brother-in-law who proposes to her, the complexity of the female psyche and...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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Cast: Kazuya Takahashi