Takahiro Tamura

Takahiro Tamura

August 31, 1928 · 98 years old

Known For

20 titles
1
Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!

1970 · 2h 24m · Movie

The story of the 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor, and the series of preceding American blunders that aggravated its effectiveness.

7.5
2
Empire of Passion

Empire of Passion

1978 · 1h 45m · Movie

A married woman and her lover murder her husband and dump his body into a well, but his ghost returns to haunt them as the local gossip intensifies.

7.0
3
Twenty-Four Eyes

Twenty-Four Eyes

1954 · 2h 36m · Movie

Schoolteacher Hisako Oishi forms an emotional bond with her pupils and teaches them various virtues, while at the same time worrying about their future.

8.0
4
His Motorbike, Her Island

His Motorbike, Her Island

1986 · 1h 30m · Movie

After a failed romance, a temperamental young biker meets a carefree rural girl while riding through her island hometown and gets her obsessed about riding a motorcycle.

7.3
5
Seisaku's Wife

Seisaku's Wife

1965 · 1h 33m · Movie

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of poverty.

7.7
6
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

1969 · 2h 2m · Movie

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the...

6.9
7
Revenge

Revenge

1964 · 1h 44m · Movie

After killing a high-ranking officer in an illegal duel, a low-ranking samurai is declared insane and challenged to a fixed duel by the vengeful clan to which his dead opponent belonged to.

7.6
8
She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

She Was Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

1955 · 1h 40m · Movie

An old man, being rowed along a river, sees a field of daisies and thinks back to when he was fifteen. He recalls his time with, and away from, the girl cousin he grew up with and would have married, except the family and other pr...

7.5
9
Letter from the Mountain

Letter from the Mountain

2002 · 2h 7m · Movie

An urban Japanese couple decide to move to the country.

7.2
10
The Sea and Poison

The Sea and Poison

1986 · 2h 3m · Movie

Downed American fliers in WWII are vivisected by Japanese surgeons in cruel medical experiments.

7.5
11
Tonkô

Tonkô

1988 · 1h 39m · Movie

In 1026, students in western China are shanghaied into the forces of crown prince Li Yuanhao of Xi Xia, who wants to control the length of the Silk Road. One student is Zhao Xingde, who becomes the favorite of his commander, Zhu W...

6.8
12
Yasei no shômei

Yasei no shômei

1978 · 2h 23m · Movie

A Japanese Warrior leaves the secretive battalion he is apart of. As a skilled soldier, he confronts evil and serves his people.

6.1
13
Death at an Old Mansion

Death at an Old Mansion

1975 · 1h 49m · Movie

When a woman and her bridegroom are found dead in a double suicide the day after their wedding, it is up to the detective to figure out what could possibly have motivated them. Carefully and systematically, he pieces together the ...

6.3
14
Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman

Sleepy Eyes of Death: Hell Is a Woman

1968 · 1h 22m · Movie

Two devious retainers are competing to take control of a fief when the current Lord dies, but involving Kyoshiro in the conflict against his will is a bad idea.

6.7
15
Shinobi no mono: Shin kirigakure Saizô

Shinobi no mono: Shin kirigakure Saizô

1966 · 1h 27m · Movie

The dream of Tokugawa Ieyasu has come true: together with his son Hidetada he rules all over Japan.

7.0
16
The Tattered Wings

The Tattered Wings

1955 · 1h 39m · Movie

A widow life is left in turmoil when her childhood lover returns to town, left between the decision whether to go with him and start a new life in tokyo or settle down with her kindly brother-in-law, amidst a growing scandal that ...

6.7
17
Thus Another Day

Thus Another Day

1959 · 1h 14m · Movie

A young wife looses patience with her career-minded husband and returns to her parents' home while an unpaid mortgage forces the couple to rent out their home for the summer to the husband's boss.

6.7
18
For Kayako

For Kayako

1984 · 1h 57m · Movie

A film about the substantial population of Koreans living in Japan, and the love affair between Kayako, a Japanese girl, and Im, a Korean.

6.9
19
Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1965 · 2h 23m · Movie

In turbulent 16th-century Japan, the leaders of a minor fief have their child taken from them as a political hostage. His mother and his clan endure years of tribulations until he can return.

6.7
20
Case of the Disjointed Murder

Case of the Disjointed Murder

1977 · 2h 20m · Movie

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after ...

6.2