Haruo Tanaka
- Acting
- March 25, 1912 · Kyoto, Japan
- March 21, 1992
Biography
Haruo Tanaka ( March 25 , 1912 – February 21, 1992 ) was a Japanese film actor noted for his supporting roles in a career that spanned seven decades. After the war, he appeared in films for Toho and Shintoho , but gradually he began to demonstrate his unique personality and became active as a character actor, appearing in works by many of the great directors who have shaped the history of Japanese cinema, including Akira Kurosawa , Yasujiro Ozu , Kenji Mizoguchi , and Shiro Toyoda. He died of lung cancer on February 21 , 1992 , at the age of 79.
Known for
Filmography
- The Funeral · Old Man
- I Saw a Monster Fish
- Flames of Blood
- The Detective Journey
- The Shingo Case Files
- The Surf
- The Assassination of Ryoma
- Japan's Top Gangster
- The Killing Game
- Wandering Ginza Butterfly
- New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
- Patience Has An End
- Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
- Midnight Virgin
- Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
- Samurai Geisha
- Trapped, the Crimson Bat · Iwakichi
- Inferno of Torture · Samejima
- Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
- Rogue
- Duel in the Storm
- The Man Without a Map
- Kawachi's Futen Tribe
- Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri · Shigeru Hanayama
- This Is Youth!
- Seven Fugitives
- Tenamonya Tôkaidô
- Third Class Soldier Boss
- The Protector
- By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him · Minegishi
- The Pornographers · Banteki
- Women Doing Time
- Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
- Minamoto no Yoshitsune · Ise Yoshimori
- Escape and the Law
- Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
- The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
- Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
- The Domain: The Naniwa Story
- Gamblers and Racketeers
- Samurai from Somewhere
- Revenge · Shiraki Jinzaemon
- Could I But Live · Tachibana
- Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office · Kichizo
- The Rabble
- Gambler · Jirokichi Hanazawa
- Blind Monk Swordsman
- A Story from Echigo
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
- A Laughable Journey
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
- The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
- New Marital Relations
- Ara kure kōya
- Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge · Daihachi
- Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise
- Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers
- Tattoo of Love
- Twin Sisters of Kyoto · Uemura
- Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
- Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
- The Body
- A Revengeful Raid
- Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
- Drunken Sword
- Ottamage ningyo monogatari
- The Ambitious Youth · Tanaka
- Tales of President Mito · Hikosaburo Okubo
- Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
- Good Rascals · Kinjiro Takeuchi
- Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
- Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
- Restoration Fire · Yasuzo
- Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
- Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
- Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
- Bride of White Castle
- A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
- An Edo Magistrate