Haruo Tanaka
Acting • Born 1912-03-25 – Died 1992-03-21
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.
Filmography
218 credits
Ikiru
Movie • 1952
Sakai
An Enemy of the People
Movie • 1946
The Passion of a Woman Teacher
Movie • 1926
Blind Monk Swordsman
Movie • 1964
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Movie • 1956
Kumagoro the horse thief
The Lower Depths
Movie • 1957
Tatsu
The Undefeated Woman
Movie • 1958
The Burning Prison
Movie • 1950
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Movie • 1958
Rogue
Movie • 1968
Good Morning
Movie • 1959
Tatsuzo Haraguchi
The Beauty of the Evening Sky
Movie • 1948
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Movie • 1954
Gifuya Dôki
The Funeral
Movie • 1984
Old Man
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
Movie • 1962
No Regrets for Our Youth
Movie • 1946
Student
お洒落狂女
Movie • 1952
Gondao Shimizu
Farewell to Spring
Movie • 1952
Sakuzô Furuya
The Devil of Edo
Movie • 1947
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Movie • 1950
Mekkachi no Katsugorô
The Woman in the Rumor
Movie • 1954
Kawamoto
Mole Alley
Movie • 1953
Heat and Mud
Movie • 1950
Floating Weeds
Movie • 1959
Yatazo
Yakuza bayashi
Movie • 1954
Ôban
Movie • 1957
Noodle Shop Owner
Women Doing Time
Movie • 1966
Gang and G-Men Part 2
Movie • 1963
The Body
Movie • 1962
Divorce
Movie • 1952
Fumio Sôma
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Movie • 1955
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Movie • 1962
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Movie • 1958
Ghost Story on Passage
Movie • 1958
The Straits of Love and Hate
Movie • 1937
Kinkichi's friend, Hirose
Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Movie • 1962
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
Movie • 1968
あらくれ荒野
Movie • 1963
Last Days of the Samurai
Movie • 1957
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
Movie • 1962
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
Movie • 1947
Duel in the Storm
Movie • 1968
Kanchō umi no bara
Movie • 1945
A Boy and Three Mothers
Movie • 1958
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
Movie • 1963
Daihachi
Sisters of Gion
Movie • 1956
Once More
Movie • 1947
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Movie • 1949
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Movie • 1966
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Movie • 1963
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
Movie • 1964
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
Movie • 1965
Enoken’s Boxing Generation
Movie • 1949
Hadaka no Machi
Movie • 1957
I Believe I Am Being Followed
Movie • 1945
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
Movie • 1948
Kitao Omachi
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Movie • 1960
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Movie • 1961
Inferno of Torture
Movie • 1969
Samejima
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Movie • 1958
Daizaburô Tani
Repast
Movie • 1951
Ginza Cosmetics
Movie • 1951
Gonroku Shirai
A Wife's Heart
Movie • 1956
An Inn at Osaka
Movie • 1954
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Movie • 1953
Chuji Tsukahara
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Movie • 1949
Seizô Kon'no
A Flower Blooms
Movie • 1948
Daikichi Konomura
Movie • 1954
Jinbei Yokoii
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Movie • 1965
Beyond the Hills
Movie • 1950
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Movie • 1950
Dimple of Tokyo
Movie • 1952
Take-san
親馬鹿花合戦
Movie • 1953
Amakara chindōchū
Movie • 1950
紋三郎の秀
Movie • 1955
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Movie • 1956
Naosuke
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Movie • 1958
Company commander Yamane
The Legend of the White Serpent
Movie • 1956
Li Gong Fu
Shimazu no sanshita yakko
Movie • 1955
Geisha in the Old City
Movie • 1957
Yasukichi
Enoken the Hero
Movie • 1950
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The Big Boss
Movie • 1959
365 Nights
Movie • 1948
Saburo Anekoji
珍説忠臣蔵
Movie • 1953
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Movie • 1945
Seijiro
The Man Without a Map
Movie • 1968
Nonki saiban
Movie • 1955
Mermaids and Sea Robbers
Movie • 1958
Proprietor of the Miharashitei
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Movie • 1945
Fukigawa Genjiro
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Movie • 1956
Hagimura
A Story from Echigo
Movie • 1964
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Movie • 1960
The Ambitious Youth
Movie • 1962
Tanaka
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Movie • 1959
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Movie • 1961
Enoken's Home Run King
Movie • 1948
Ghost Man
Movie • 1954
Yosuke Kikuchi
Bouquet of the South Seas
Movie • 1942
Ishikawa, pilot
Marital Relations
Movie • 1955
Omokage no machi
Movie • 1942
Akireta musumetachi
Movie • 1949
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Movie • 1950
Snow Country
Movie • 1957
Porter
Revenge
Movie • 1964
Shiraki Jinzaemon
Flames of Blood
Movie • 1981
Samurai Saga
Movie • 1959
(uncredited)
The Elegant Swordsman
Movie • 1934
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
Movie • 1971
Tsuki yori no haha
Movie • 1951
Goro Aoyama
Heavenly Dragon
Movie • 1960
Yumatsu
Bride of White Castle
Movie • 1961
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Movie • 1962
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
Movie • 1965
Gentle Breeze
Movie • 1959
Tattoo of Love
Movie • 1963
Drunken Sword
Movie • 1962
Patience Has An End
Movie • 1971
Wolves of the City, Money Hunters
Movie • 1970
The Dawn of Freedom
Movie • 1944
Lt. Sakuragi (military doctor)
Unwieldy Brothers
Movie • 1960
Good Rascals
Movie • 1962
Kinjiro Takeuchi
Snow-Flake
Movie • 1950
Okubatake
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Movie • 1969
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Movie • 1959
Seven Fugitives
Movie • 1966
Merciless Blade Part 2
Movie • 1953
Merciless Blade Part 3
Movie • 1953
Trapped, the Crimson Bat
Movie • 1969
Iwakichi
Japan's Top Gangster
Movie • 1973
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Movie • 1963
Three Women of the North
Movie • 1945
Midnight Virgin
Movie • 1970
Dancing Girl
Movie • 1957
Tamura
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
Movie • 1961
Samurai from Somewhere
Movie • 1964
Tales of President Mito
Movie • 1962
Hikosaburo Okubo
Morning Breeze in Edo
Movie • 1960
Otoboke Senta
Samurai Geisha
Movie • 1969
A Ripple in a Morning
Movie • 1952
Ito
音楽大進軍
Movie • 1943
Publicist Semi
Scarier than the Devil
Movie • 1960
Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo
Movie • 1959
Down Town
Movie • 1957
Her Captive Gamblers
Movie • 1953
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Movie • 1953
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Movie • 1953
Jirocho, the Hunted
Movie • 1953
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Movie • 1953
Jirocho's New Year
Movie • 1954
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Movie • 1952
Jirocho in Disgrace
Movie • 1954
Last of the Wild Ones
Movie • 1954
A Revengeful Raid
Movie • 1962
Tokyo Twilight
Movie • 1957
Komatsu's Customer
Wandering Ginza Butterfly
Movie • 1972
Echo in the Mountains
Movie • 1959
Yadashi Ukontaro
Untamed Woman
Movie • 1957
Fusayoshi
The Rickshaw Man
Movie • 1958
Travel Romances
Movie • 1957
A Geisha
Movie • 1953
Ogawa
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Movie • 1961
Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise
Movie • 1963
Escape at Dawn
Movie • 1950
Noro
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
Movie • 1966
Minegishi
Gamblers and Racketeers
Movie • 1964
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Movie • 1965
Restoration Fire
Movie • 1961
Yasuzo
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Movie • 1960
Early Spring
Movie • 1956
Nomura
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Movie • 1964
Kichizo
The Pirates
Movie • 1960
Gambler
Movie • 1964
Jirokichi Hanazawa
Samurai Vagabonds
Movie • 1960
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Movie • 1960
The Pornographers
Movie • 1966
Banteki
The Surf
Movie • 1975
A Laughable Journey
Movie • 1964
Lord of Red Banner
Movie • 1960
Rainy Night Duel
Movie • 1956
Joji the coolie procurer
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
Movie • 1963
Uemura
Police Precinct Part 8
Movie • 1958
Invitation to Happiness
Movie • 1947
Miki, the Swordman
Movie • 1951
Children Seeking a Mother
Movie • 1956
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
Movie • 1954
Happily Tied to the Road
Movie • 1959
Mishima
Yakuza of Ina
Movie • 1960
Teruyoshi
Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
Movie • 1934
Street of Shame
Movie • 1956
Osaka Salesman
Shojohou
Movie • 1950
The Killing Game
Movie • 1973
The Rabble
Movie • 1964
Uta e! Taiyō
Movie • 1945
Zoku Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
The Detective Journey
Movie • 1980
The Protector
Movie • 1966
Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei
Movie • 1958
The Assassination of Ryoma
Movie • 1974
Settlement of Love
Movie • 1956
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
Movie • 1961
Tange Sazen
Movie • 1953
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
Movie • 1962
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Movie • 1962
The Shadow Daughter
Movie • 1957
An Edo Magistrate
Movie • 1961
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Movie • 1965
Hinoki Butai
Movie • 1946
Eacape of Fear
Movie • 1956
A Strong Wind Blows
Movie • 1956
Managing Director Tadokoro
Kawachi fūten zoku
Movie • 1968
Third Class Soldier Boss
Movie • 1966
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Movie • 1960
Fujisancho
Movie • 1948
The Wicked Boy
Movie • 1956
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Movie • 1967
Shigeru Hanayama
This Is Youth!
Movie • 1966
Minamoto no Yoshitsune
TV • 1966
Ise Yoshimori
The Shingo Case Files
TV • 1977