Personal Info
Birth date
1905-04-20 (120 Years)
Day of death
1989-07-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Ako, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan
Also known as
Рютаро Тацуми
Ryūtarō Tatsumi
Biography
Ryūtarō Tatsumi (辰巳柳太郎; April 20 1905 - July 29 1989) was a Japanese actor.
Filmography
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
NYR
Overview:
The chronicles of the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159 - May 17th, 1189). He was a late Heian and early Kamakura general of the Minamoto clan of Japan. Yoshitsune was the ninth son of Minamoto no Yoshitomo. His older brother Minamoto no Yoritomo founded the Kamakura shogunate.Lullaby to Kill
6.4
Overview:
Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the murderer is.Vanished Enlisted Man
NYR
Overview:
In June 1941, Captain Kagawa (Ryutaro Tatsumi), who had just graduated from the military academy, was assigned as the captain of a sentry patrol in Beiman, which was located on the opposite side of the Heilongjiang River from the Semidomka region of the Soviet Union. His predecessor, Lieutenant Kishi (Kawamura Kenichiro), a mild-mannered middle-aged man, had earned the trust of his men and the villagers by relaxing his military duties. However, newly appointed Lieutenant Kagawa thinks that Kishi's way of doing things is sloppy and begins to train the soldiers furiously in order to teach them a lesson.Nerves for Victory
6
Overview:
A young yakuza who respects obligation and humanity must face cruel and heartless turf wars leading to a fight to the death with his own brother.Admiral Yamamoto
8.3
Overview:
As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese fleet. With Japan headed inexorably toward war, Yamamoto, despite his misgivings, believes the only possible victory lies in destroying the American fleet by surprise at Pearl Harbor. The attack succeeds, but fails to sink the American carrier fleet. Thus Yamamoto must lead the Japanese navy into war with ever-diminishing likelihood of success.Wild Spirit
NYR
Overview:
It has been 5 years since Eijiro Kikukawa of the Asakusa Kaminarimon family killed the head of the Suzaki family. Finally he gets out of prison and comes to the city of Odahama, where he had a mistress, Okei, whom he could not forget. He accidentally helped a man named Hanji from the Kurokane family and was received by the family as a guest. And soon Eijiro is involved in a showdown between the yakuza families.Battle of the Japan Sea
6
Overview:
Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and a Russian fleet bears down on the Sea of Japan. Admiral Heihachiro Togo sends his fleet to confront the Russians, with results which stun both nations. Meanwhile, Major Genjiro Akashi makes secret negotiations with the Bolshevik revolutionaries in Russia, negotiations that have repercussions far beyond the conflict at hand.The Last Samurai
7.8
Overview:
The film follows the story of Sugi Toranosuke, a ronin, who returns to his home town of Edo many years after his attempted suicide as a sickly child. Rescued and adopted by a master swordsman, he has grown into a master swordsman and a very kind gentleman. The time is around 1868 the year that the nails were finally put into the coffin containing the feudal system that nurtured and sustained the samurai. Sugi is confused and unsure about what is happening but his teacher wants him out of the chaos of the multiple power struggles between the various clans.Tenchu!
7
Overview:
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.Shadow Hunters
6.5
Overview:
Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow Hunters". These three ronin are not your normal ornery ruffians who are looking for a drink, a broad and someone to jab a sword into, but are in fact former samurai who, rather than follow their destroyed fiefs and murdered masters into death via seppuku, have dedicated their combined sword prowess to stopping the government from raping its daimyos for valuable resources.Three Generations of Yakuza
NYR
Overview:
The film depicts the fate of a young yakuza boss and his father, who confront each other, not knowing that they are relatives, and become victims of a brutal war for territory between the clans according to the merciless laws of the yakuza.Henchmen
NYR
Overview:
The three henchmen join forces to challenge the brutal gang that is trying to control the city of Izu in Shizuoka during the early Showa period. Representatives of three different yakuza gangs - Tatsuo Umemiya, Tomisaburo Wakayama and Koji Tsuruta celebrate male friendship and male chivalry in action.Story of Yakuza in Naniwa
NYR
Overview:
A dramatization of Ryotaro Shiba's novel of the same title about the life of Kobayashi Sahē, a chivalrous man who actually existed at the end of the Edo period.The Girl I Abandoned
NYR
Overview:
Tsutomu Yoshioka, a Tokyo office worker, is engaged to Mariko, the niece of his company's president. But Yoshioka has a crisis of consence when he remembers his former love Mitsu, a rural girl whom he met and later left while in college. Shimako, a former friend, persuades Yoshioka to meet with Mitsu while she plots to blackmail Yoshioka by photographing the meeting to break up Mariko and Yoshioka.Tora-san's Forbidden Love
8
Overview:
Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san to help find him, he falls in love with her, and secretly hopes the husband will not be found.Man of a Stormy Era
NYR
Overview:
The early years of the Showa period were turbulent times for Japan. The country suffered financial crisis and famine, women worked under intolerable employment conditions, and political corruption was a major issue. Out of fear that the great nation would soon fall, a group of young patriotic men gathered to lay out plans to assassinate the crooked politicians. One of these young terrorists was Shinsuke Kusaka. He receives orders to kill the Prime Minister.Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
NYR
Overview:
Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and womanizing much to the surprise of his friends. As their wedding day approached, Minosuke who had long been infatuated with Omame threatened her mother Okuma by using a promissory note for three ryō that he lent to her.Our Town
6.8
Overview:
In 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan. He starts to work as a rickshaw driver, but his lover had died of an illness, leaving a baby girl, Hatsue. Hatsue grows up beautifully and falls in love with Shintaro. But Takichi objects to their relationship...The Samurai of Edo
6
Overview:
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji Restoration, and therefore, shows audience the dynamic change from Edo to Meiji. Before the war, the director, Eisuke Takizawa, together with the writers, formed a scenario writer group "Narutaki-gumi and they shot many historical masterpieces.The Sands of Kurobe
6.2
Overview:
Kitagawa is an engineer charged with construction of a gigantic tunnel through the Japan Alps for the transportation of equipment in the building of the massive Kurobe Dam. The tunnel crosses an earthquake fault and Kitagawa is beleaguered not only by cave-ins and flooding, but by strife between management and the workers's union. Adding to Kitagawa's stress is the knowledge that as his attention is pulled inexorably toward the tunnel construction, his youngest daughter is dying from leukemia.Fill the Cup with Blood
NYR
Overview:
Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.Ootone no Taiketsu
NYR
Overview:
In the town of Yumoto, Asakichi, a left-arm-less gambler who had been winning at the gambling hall, was attracted by the sound of a faintly heard storyteller, Saman, and left his seat. Asakichi was fascinated by the voice of Oyasu, who sounded exactly like his wife Ochiyo, who had died three years earlier. Asakichi told Oyasu that Ochiyo had fled with him to his home town of Omigawa just before he was deposed by the samurai Shingo Inaba, but that he had put her through a lot of hardship to make her die. Oyasu's husband Tokujiro was a palace carpenter in Edo, but his skills were damaged and he came to take a cure. Asakichi heard about Oyasu's story and offered him money, and Tokujiro's arm was almost completely healed by Oyasu's nursing care.Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza
6
Overview:
With his penultimate film, Uchida revisited one of his popular prewar titles, 1936’s Theatre of Life, an adaptation of Shiro Ozaki’s eponymous novel. Three-time Seijun Suzuki collaborator Goro Tanada wrote a gangsterized adaptation of Ozaki’s story for Uchida at a time when the yakuza had eclipsed the samurai genre as Toei's main cash crop. Protagonist Hishakaku murders a man in a quarrel over a barmaid and goes to jail. In his temporary absence, his girlfriend Otoyo, a former geisha, falls for Hishakaku’s brother, inciting a dangerous love triangle that, in typical yakuza fashion, ends tragically.The Code of Man
NYR
Overview:
Tetsuya Watari, a modern youth idol, co-stars with Tetsuro Tamba for the first time, and a young man who survives freely is an action giant who swings down the iron arm of justice and anger toward evilActing
1987The Forest of the Little Bear as Takahara
1984Tora-san's Forbidden Love as Kenkichi's father
1982Arashi Tatsunari as Kosaburo
1977Lullaby to Kill as Kahei Nire (scale maker)
1975Path of Japanese Chivalry: Story of All-Out Attack as Unknown
1974The Last Samurai as Unknown
1973Yakuza of the Present as Yuasa
1972The Pledge as Unknown
1972Shadow Hunters as Unknown
1971Tabiji: ofukuro-san yori as Captain
1971Dagger as Unknown
1970Tomorrow's Joe as Unknown
1970Story of Yakuza in Naniwa (13 Episodes) as Unknown
1970Modern Sorority as Unknown
1970The Sunset is Calling Me as Unknown
1970The Fearless Brotherhood Duet of Kanto as Unknown
1969Bad Reputation: Showdown of the Best as Unknown
1969Married Woman: Another Law of the Night as Unknown
1969Fill the Cup with Blood as Unknown
1969The Girl I Abandoned as Unknown
1969Tenchu! as Yoshida Toyo
1969Battle of the Japan Sea as General Gonbei Yamamoto
1968Hishakaku and Kiratsune: A Tale of Two Yakuza as Unknown
1968Admiral Yamamoto as Boatman Kitaro
1968Man of a Stormy Era as Unknown
1968Henchmen as Masakichi
1968The Sands of Kurobe as Genzo
1968The Code of Man as Unknown
1967Wild Spirit as Mitsuami
1966Kingdom of Samurai as Unknown
1966Nerves for Victory as Unknown
1966Three Generations of Yakuza as Unknown
1966Minamoto no Yoshitsune (52 Episodes) as Taira no Kiyomori
1957剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り as Unknown
1956Our Town as Takichi "Taa" Sadogashima
1955The Samurai of Edo as Unknown
1955Six Assassins as Unknown
1955Ootone no Taiketsu as Unknown
1955Vanished Enlisted Man as Unknown
1954Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi as Unknown
1954Hirate Miki the Swordman as Unknown
1954Kunisada Chūji as Chûji Kunisada
1954Hanran as Saburo Aizawa
1953Kurama tengu: Aomen yasha as 小山田内記
1952武蔵と小次郎 as 宮本武蔵