Haruo Tanaka

Known For: Acting
Born: March 25, 1912
Place of Birth: Kyoto, Japan
Died: March 21, 1992

Haruo Tanaka

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.

Filmography

The Funeral

1984 · Old Man

Flames of Blood

1981

The Detective Journey

1980

The Shingo Case Files

1977

The Surf

1975

The Assassination of Ryoma

1974

Japan's Top Gangster

1973

The Killing Game

1973

Wandering Ginza Butterfly

1972

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape

1971

Patience Has An End

1971

Wolves of the City, Money Hunters

1970

Midnight Virgin

1970

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

1969

Samurai Geisha

1969

Trapped, the Crimson Bat

1969 · Iwakichi

Inferno of Torture

1969 · Samejima

Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time

1968

Rogue

1968

Duel in the Storm

1968

The Man Without a Map

1968

Kawachi fūten zoku

1968

Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri

1967 · Shigeru Hanayama

This Is Youth!

1966

Seven Fugitives

1966

Tenamonya Tôkaidô

1966

Third Class Soldier Boss

1966

The Protector

1966

By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him

1966 · Minegishi

The Pornographers

1966 · Banteki

Women Doing Time

1966

Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2

1966

Minamoto no Yoshitsune

1966 · Ise Yoshimori

Escape and the Law

1965

Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro

1965

The Kingdom of Jirocho 4

1965

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

1965

Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness

1965

The Domain: The Naniwa Story

1965

Gamblers and Racketeers

1964

Samurai from Somewhere

1964

Revenge

1964 · Shiraki Jinzaemon

Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office

1964 · Kichizo

The Rabble

1964

Gambler

1964 · Jirokichi Hanazawa

Blind Monk Swordsman

1964

A Story from Echigo

1964

The Kingdom of Jirocho 3

1964

A Laughable Journey

1964

The Kingdom of Jirocho 2

1963

The Kingdom of Jirocho 1

1963

Ara kure kōya

1963

Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge

1963 · Daihachi

Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise

1963

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers

1963

Tattoo of Love

1963

Twin Sisters of Kyoto

1963 · Uemura

Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady

1962

Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru

1962

The Body

1962

A Revengeful Raid

1962

Gakusei geisha koi to kenka

1962

Drunken Sword

1962

Ottamage ningyo monogatari

1962

The Ambitious Youth

1962 · Tanaka

Tales of President Mito

1962 · Hikosaburo Okubo

Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3

1962

Good Rascals

1962 · Kinjiro Takeuchi

Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey

1962

Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido

1962

Restoration Fire

1961 · Yasuzo

Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia

1961

Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku

1961

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region

1961

Bride of White Castle

1961

A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji

1961

An Edo Magistrate

1961

The Shogun and the Fishmonger

1961

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region

1960

Morning Breeze in Edo

1960 · Otoboke Senta

Scarier than the Devil

1960

Heavenly Dragon

1960 · Yumatsu

The Pirates

1960

The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor

1960

Unwieldy Brothers

1960

Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage

1960

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4

1960

Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill

1960

Yakuza of Ina

1960 · Teruyoshi

Lord of Red Banner

1960

Samurai Vagabonds

1960

Floating Weeds

1959 · Yatazo

Echo in the Mountains

1959 · Yadashi Ukontaro

The Edo Official and Apprentice

1959

Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo

1959

Gentle Breeze

1959

Good Morning

1959 · Tatsuzo Haraguchi

Samurai Saga

1959 · (uncredited)

Happily Tied to the Road

1959 · Mishima

The Big Boss

1959

Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2

1959

Yajikita dōchū sugoroku

1958

Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei

1958

Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger

1958

The Undefeated Woman

1958

Mermaids and Sea Robbers

Mermaids and Sea Robbers

1958 · Proprietor of the Miharashitei

Yaji and Kita's Ghost Story Journey

1958

Police Precinct Part 8

1958

The Rickshaw Man

1958

Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki

1958 · Company commander Yamane

Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness

1958 · Daizaburô Tani

A Boy and Three Mothers

1958

Travel Romances

1957

Down Town

1957

Geisha in the Old City

1957 · Yasukichi

The Lower Depths

1957 · Tatsu

First Love Story

1957 · Tokuzo

Hadaka no Machi

1957

Last Days of the Samurai

1957

The Shadow Daughter

1957

Untamed Woman

1957 · Fusayoshi

Turtledove

1957

Snow Country

1957 · Porter

Tokyo Twilight

1957 · Komatsu's Customer

Ôban

1957 · Noodle Shop Owner

Dancing Girl

1957 · Tamura

The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji

1956

A Strong Wind Blows

1956 · Managing Director Tadokoro

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

1956 · Hagimura

In Case of One Woman

In Case of One Woman

1956 · Kenkichi Yoshioka

Children Seeking a Mother

1956 · Carpenter

Eacape of Fear

1956

The Ghosts of Yotsuya

1956 · Naosuke

The Legend of the White Serpent

1956 · Li Gong Fu

The Wicked Boy

1956

Sisters of Gion

1956

A Wife's Heart

1956

Settlement of Love

1956

Street of Shame

1956 · Osaka Salesman

Early Spring

1956 · Nomura

Rainy Night Duel

1956 · Joji the coolie procurer

Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island

1956 · Kumagoro the horse thief

Marital Relations

1955

Shimazu no sanshita yakko

Shimazu no sanshita yakko

1955

Nonki saiban

1955

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf

1955

Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri

1955

紋三郎の秀

紋三郎の秀

1955

Chikamatsu Monogatari

1954 · Gifuya Dôki

Ghost Man

1954 · Yosuke Kikuchi

Daikichi Konomura

1954 · Jinbei Yokoii

Jirocho in Disgrace

1954

Yakuza bayashi

1954

Shigemori Goes To Tokyo

1954

The Woman in the Rumor

1954 · Kawamoto

Last of the Wild Ones

1954

An Inn at Osaka

1954

Jirocho's New Year

1954

Jirocho, the Hunted

1953

Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow

1953

Zoku Tange Sazen

1953

A Geisha

1953 · Ogawa

Jirocho's Home-Coming

1953

Merciless Blade Part 3

1953

Merciless Blade Part 2

1953

Her Captive Gamblers

1953

Tange Sazen

1953

Mole Alley

1953

Where Chimneys Are Seen

1953 · Chuji Tsukahara

親馬鹿花合戦

親馬鹿花合戦

1953

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

1953

珍説忠臣蔵

1953

Jirocho Rises in Fame

1952

Ikiru

1952 · Sakai

Dimple of Tokyo

1952 · Take-san

Divorce

1952 · Fumio Sôma

A Ripple in a Morning

1952 · Ito

お洒落狂女

お洒落狂女

1952 · Gondao Shimizu

Farewell to Spring

1952 · Sakuzô Furuya

Repast

1951

Miki, the Swordman

1951

Tsuki yori no haha

1951 · Goro Aoyama

Ginza Cosmetics

1951 · Gonroku Shirai

Shojohou

1950

Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog

1950 · Mekkachi no Katsugorô

Amakara chindōchū

Amakara chindōchū

1950

Portrait of Madame Yuki

1950

Enoken the Hero

1950 · Tokugawa Ieyasu

The Burning Prison

1950

Beyond the Hills

Beyond the Hills

1950

Snow-Flake

1950 · Okubatake

Heat and Mud

1950

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka

1950

Escape at Dawn

1950 · Noro

Mr. Shosuke Ohara

1949 · Seizô Kon'no

Akireta musumetachi

1949

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

1949

Hills of a Foreign Country

1949 · Mitsuo

Enoken’s Boxing Generation

1949

The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow

1948 · Kitao Omachi

365 Nights: Tokyo

1948 · Saburo Anenokoji

Enoken's Home Run King

1948

365 Nights

1948 · Saburo Anekoji

The Beauty of the Evening Sky

1948

Fujisancho

1948

A Flower Blooms

1948

Invitation to Happiness

1947

The Devil of Edo

1947

Once More

1947

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

1947

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946 · Student

Beauty

1946

An Enemy of the People

1946

Hinoki Butai

1946

Uta e! Taiyō

1945

Three Women of the North

1945

A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo

1945 · Seijiro

Duel at Yagyu Valley

1945 · Fukigawa Genjiro

I Believe I Am Being Followed

I Believe I Am Being Followed

1945

Kanchō umi no bara

Kanchō umi no bara

1945

The Dawn of Freedom

1944 · Lt. Sakuragi (military doctor)

音楽大進軍

1943 · Publicist Semi

Omokage no machi

1942

Bouquet of the South Seas

1942 · Ishikawa, pilot

The Straits of Love and Hate

1937 · Kinkichi's friend, Hirose

A Story of Floating Weeds

1934 · Assistant Director

Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen

1934

The Elegant Swordsman

The Elegant Swordsman

1934

The Passion of a Woman Teacher

1926

Haruo Tanaka · Virelixia