Personal Info
Birth date
1911-11-08 (113 Years)
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
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Also known as
-Kan Yanagiya
Biography
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Filmography
Stray Dog
7.538
Overview:
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes undercover, scavenging Tokyo’s sweltering streets for the stray dog whose desperation has led him to a life of crime. With each step, cop and criminal’s lives become more intertwined and the investigation becomes an examination of Murakami’s own dark side.A Taxing Woman
6.811
Overview:
Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his assets from the Japanese authorities. Itakura and Gondo soon find themselves engaged in a complicated, satirical battle of wits.Children of Hiroshima
7.25
Overview:
Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in dealing with the aftermath.The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity
8.206
Overview:
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts against the abusive treatment against the recruit Obara. He also sees his friend Shinjô Ittôhei defecting to the Russian border, and he ends in the front to fight a lost battle against the Russian tanks division.The Angry Street
6.5
Overview:
The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of the University of Tokyo, and the high life of jazzy dance halls. Sudo (Hara Yasumi) and Mori (Uno Jukichi) are two university students who make money by picking up rich girls in dance clubs and conning them into giving them cash. Mori is the brains of the operation, and Sudo is the suave dancer who picks up the girls. Over the course of the film, Sudo becomes involved with three different girls and is drawn into the gangster milieu, which he seems unable to resist even though he is responsible for his mother, grandmother, and sister, Masako (Wakayama Setsuko). In this world of bad boys and girls, Masako is the pillar of strength and moral virtue who finally enables Mori to straighten out.Lord Mito: All Star Version
8.3
Overview:
In 1691 a terrible fire broke out in Denmacho, Yotsuya, burning down the towns around it, up to the shores of Shibaura. A month and a half later, another fire broke out, this time in Komagome, burning down the two gates of Asakusa and Sujikai, and continuing on into the night. As the government Elders consider evidence that these fires were arson, a fire breaks out in Hirakawa-cho, outside of Hanzo Gate. Nishonmaru catches on fire and burns down completely. When this rash of fires even strikes Kyoto, the task of finding who’s behind the arson, and stopping them falls to the Shogun’s uncle, the Elder Lord of Mito. Together with his trusted bodyguards, Kaku and Suke, the trio set of to save Japan from this scourge of evil. Featuring virtually all of their most famous stars, this is the best film in the Toei series about Mito Komon, one of Japan’s most popular historical figures who traveled through the country incognito to check on the people and fight injustice.Yearning
8.1
Overview:
War widow Reiko rebuilds and runs the grocery shop in the house of her husband's family. Many years later, their business is threatened by a newly built supermarket and Reiko's in-laws plan to convert their small shop into a supermarket, to her detriment.Eight Hours of Terror
7.3
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A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.Voice Without a Shadow
6.4
Overview:
Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his boss, Hamazaki, over for dinner and she realises his voice is suspiciously like that of the killer. Before she can investigate further, Hamazaki is found dead and her husband becomes the prime suspect.The Wolves
6.8
Overview:
A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families.The Battle of Kawanakajima
NYR
Overview:
This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the main supply wagons and the supply troops to transport materiel to the Uesugi army. To this are added episodes involving an itinerant woman.Hazardous Graduation
4
Overview:
Sex games by students at a junior high school are exposed by the principal and teachers, but the tables are turned in favor of the students.The Blue Pearl
NYR
Overview:
The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life.Return of the One-Armed Swordsman
5.8
Overview:
The legendary one-eyed one-armed swordsman Tange Sazen is back to aid a Magistrate in his efforts to steal bribe money on its way to Edo for the benefit to poor farmers.Rainbow Hill
NYR
Overview:
A half brother and sister work at a hotel in Hakone respectively as a porter and a souvenir shop clerk. They are close. One day a woman named Hasegawa checks into the hotel in order to recuperate in a calm environment with fresh air. She is the mother of the store employee. The mother and daughter were separated due to the Kanto earthquake. The girl was practically raised by her older half brother.Moment of Terror
6.3
Overview:
When an only child is struck by a car and dies, the child's mother seeks vengeance against the driver in this thrilling drama. The car was driven by the wife of a company president who is having an affair. The woman's husband manages to buy silence about the incident, but the victim's mother discovers the identity of the driver. After she secures a job in the home of the company president and his philandering spouse, the woman plans to murder the couple's son when he reaches the age of her late son.The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
NYR
Overview:
A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.Detective
NYR
Overview:
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba enthusiastically plays a police inspector who pursues a criminal who kidnapped his sister.Tokyo Sweetheart
7.75
Overview:
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.The Skin of the South
NYR
Overview:
When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, they face the ambitions of the headstrong lumber baron, whose actions will only further destabilize the land. Their pleas for reason ignored, the scientists can do little but observe as nature runs its inevitable course.Beautiful Departure
NYR
Overview:
A rich bourgeoisie family has little care in the world and knows no other lifestyle. It is only the family's second daughter who has an insecure bone in her body and ponders a day when the good times might end. Then one day the family-owned company goes bankrupt and a new era begins.The Naked Sun
NYR
Overview:
A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they have agreed on this procedure, it comes as a shock to the young woman to find out from her husband-to-be that he just loaned all the money they had saved to a friend. She is understandably miffed, and a big disagreement results. But after some time goes by, she discovers why the friend needed the money so badly, and the couple are back on solid footing again.The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
NYR
Overview:
Popular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is involved in a robbery of precious diamond.A Woman's Life
7.1
Overview:
A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.Acting
1987A Taxing Woman as Grocery Store Owner
1970Hazardous Graduation as Unknown
1968魔性の女 as Unknown
1966Dynamite Doctor Returns as Unknown
1966The Man from Planet Alpha as Unknown
1966Moment of Terror as Unknown
1965The White Rose of Hong Kong as Li Bai-yong
1964Detective as Unknown
1964Destroyer Yukikaze as Unknown
1964Yearning as Mr. Kaga
1963A Woman's Life as Unknown
1963Rabble Tactics as Masuda Shobei
1963Crazy Operation: First Move as Unknown
1962Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady as Unknown
1962Haruko no ōen danchō as Unknown
1962The Pacific War and Himeyuri Corps as Unknown
1962Pleasant Company as Unknown
1962次郎長社長と石松社員 威風堂々 as Unknown
1962Nippon no obaachan as Unknown
1961The World's Most Noble Guy: Taro's Whirlwind as Unknown
1961Futaridake no taiyō as Unknown
1961The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4 as Kajimu
1961べらんめぇ藝者罷り通る as Unknown
1960Lord Mito: All Star Version as Unknown
1960The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3 as Unknown
1960Police Precinct Part 14 as Unknown
1960Outlaw Under a Blue Canopy as Unknown
1960The Prickly Mouthed Geisha Part 2 as Unknown
1960Return of the One-Armed Swordsman as Unknown
1959The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity as Tanoue Nitôhei
1959Moonlight Mask: The Last Death of the Devil as Unknown
1959Moonlight Mask: The Challenging Ghost as Unknown
1959Moonlight Mask: The Monster Gorilla as Unknown
1959The Happy Family as Unknown
1958Moonlight Mask: Claws of Satan as Gorohachi
1958Voice Without a Shadow as Suzumoto
1958The Abandoned Swords as Unknown
1958The Naked Sun as Unknown
1958With Songs in My Heart as Unknown
1958Moonlight Mask: Duel to the Death in Dangerous Waters as Unknown
1958Moonlight Mask as Unknown
1958三代目 魚河岸の石松 as Unknown
1958Monsoon Son Pt.2 as Unknown
1958Monsoon Son as Unknown
1957Shiroi natsu as Unknown
1957Eight Hours of Terror as Seikichi Hanashim
1957Dancing Sisters as Unknown
1956Frankie the Milkman as Daisuke Aoki
1956Kingorô no omawari-san as Unknown
1956Tonari no yome as Unknown
1956Nikoyon monogatari as Unknown
1956Seishun wo warera ni as Yamamoto
1956Funny Friend: The Baby and Express as Unknown
1955The Motherless as Unknown
1955The Wolves as Unknown
1954My Pistol Is Quick as Unknown
1954Turbid Youth as Unknown
1954The Black Current as Unknown
1953悲劇の将軍 山下奉文 as Unknown
1952Children of Hiroshima as Unknown
1952Tokyo Sweetheart as Doctor
1952Forty-Eight Man as Unknown
1952The Skin of the South as Sanpei
1951Dispersed Clouds as Unknown
1951Sasaki Kojiro as Unknown
1951The Blue Pearl as Shintaro
1951Swords and Brocade as Unknown
1951The White Orchid as Unknown
1951Koibito as Hakobu-chan
1950Senka o koete as Unknown
1950Pursuit At Dawn as Unknown
1950The Angry Street as Unknown
1950Duel in the Sun as Journalist
1950Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka as Seijiro, Yoshiko's brother-in-law
1950Escape at Dawn as Yamamoto
1950Escape from Prison as Unknown
1949Stray Dog as Police Officer
1942Wings of Victory as Unknown
1942Mother Never Dies as Unknown
1942The Man Who Waited as Unknown
1941A Man's Flower Road of Triumph as Unknown
1941The Battle of Kawanakajima as Sakuzô
1940Travelling Actors as Senpei Nakamura - the Hindlegs
1939Machi as Fishmonger Ryuusan
1939Shanghai Landing Party as Unknown
1939Beautiful Departure as Unknown
1938Rainbow Hill as Man Hiking
1938The Giant as Unknown