Basically, it’s about a Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) Read More »
Tag Archives: Tatsuya Nakadai
Sanjuro (1962) Akira Kurosawa, Toshirô Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi
A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen trying to save his uncle Read More »
Goyokin (1969) Hideo Gosha, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Tsukasa
Tatsuya Nakadai plays a samurai overcome with guilt over his unwitting part in a massacre of a small village. Read More »
Onimasa / Kiryûin Hanako no shôgai (1982) Hideo Gosha
A yakuza melodrama, covering decades in the lives of Boss Onimasa Read More »
Spellbound / Kin’yû fushoku rettô: Jubaku (1999)
Tapping into the economic malaise and the growing outrage against endless tawdry financial scandals Read More »
The Beast Shall Die / Yajû shisubeshi (1959) Eizô Sugawa
A promising post-graduate literature student (Nakadai) is transformed into a psychotic killer Read More »
The Face of Another / Tanin no kao (1966) Hiroshi Teshigahara, Tatsuya Nakadai, Mikijirô Hira, Kyôko Kishida
A businessman facially scarred in a laboratory fire receives psychotherapy from a psychiatrist Read More »
Harakiri / Seppuku (1962) Masaki Kobayashi, Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Ishihama, Shima Iwashita
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) Read More »
Lone Wolf and Cub: The Final Conflict / Kozure Ôkami: Sono chîsaki te ni (1993) Akira Inoue, Masakazu Tamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yushi Shoda
A noble samurai serving the Shogun as ‘Kogi Kaishaku-nin’ (Official Executioner) Read More »
The Sword of Doom / Dai-bosatsu tôge (1966) Kihachi Okamoto, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama
Ryunosuke is a sociopathic samurai without compassion or scruples. Read More »