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Tetsuro Tamba

Tetsuro Tamba

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

17/07/1922

Day of Death

24/09/2006
(84) years old

Place of Birth

Tokyo, Japan

Biography

Tetsuro Tamba (July 17, 1922 – September 24, 2006) was a distinguished Japanese actor known for his versatile talent across five decades. Recognized globally for his portrayal of Tiger Tanaka in the iconic 1967 James Bond film "You Only Live Twice," Tamba's cinematic journey was a remarkable blend o... Read More

Known For

Teruo Ishii Fan Club

Teruo Ishii Fan Club

Demon Pond

Demon Pond

The Thousand Year Fire

The Thousand Year Fire

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

Gozu

Gozu

Yakuza Demon

Yakuza Demon

T.R.Y.

T.R.Y.

Shura Group Part 2

Shura Group Part 2

Filmography

Cast

2006

Teruo Ishii Fan Club

2005

Demon Pond

2004

The Thousand Year Fire

2004

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

2003

Gozu

2003

Yakuza Demon

as Michitane Tendou

2003

A Case of Murder by the Atami Station Ta...

2003

T.R.Y.

2002

Shura Group Part 2

2002

Best Ever Bond

as Tiger Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredit...

2002

Bond Girls Are Forever

as Tiger Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredit...

2002

The Twilight Samurai

as Tozaemon Iguchi

2002

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

as Sanada

2002

The Cat Returns

as Cat King (voice)

2002

Graveyard of Honor

as Tetsuji Tokura

2002

The Happiness of the Katakuris

as Granpa Jinpei Katakuri

2002

Shura Group

2002

Shura Group Part 1

2001

Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams

2001

The Making Of The Katakuris

2001

Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf

2000

Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons

as Old Master

2000

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

as Tetsuo Hatake

2000

The Stupid Teacher

as Utaemon Baba

1999

Japanese Hell

as Asu Shino

1999

Jubaku: Spellbound

as Tajiro Kawakami

1999

Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spr...

as Tamba (voice)

1998

Screwed

as Landlord

1997

The Peking Man

as Osone

1994

Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spiritual World 3:...

1994

Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown

1993

Emperor of Upheaval

1993

The Supernormal II

1992

Taira no Kiyomori

1991

Minamoto Yoshitsune

1991

The Tale of Genji

1991

The Great Shogunate Battle

1991

Yakuza Warfare

1991

源氏九郎颯爽記　秘剣揚羽の蝶

1991

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

as Master Zhang

1991

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses

1991

Kim's War

1991

Heat Wave

as Denkichi Tsuzaki

1991

Female Neo-Ninjas

as Time Patrol leader

1990

1750 Days of Turbulence

1990

School Be-In Bully

as Ryotaro Sakurazawa

1990

Aurora Borealis

as Tsuneiro Kamisaka

1990

13 Assassins

1990

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I ...

as Ryo Okamoto

1989

Tokyo: The Last War

as Kanaami Kohou

1989

Four Days of Snow and Blood

as Jinzaburi Shinzaki

1989

The Political Game

1989

Yakuza Ladies 3

as Takeo Sakanishi

1989

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る

1989

Shogun's Shadow

as Hotta Masamori

1989

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What...

as 吉野博士

1988

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special

1988

Tokyo Pop

as Mr. Dota

1988

A Taxing Woman's Return

as Sadohara

1987

Tabaruzaka

1987

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

1987

Twilight of the Cockroaches

as Grandpa (voice)

1987

You're My Destiny

1987

Ronin on a Mission

as Ōishi Kuranosuke

1987

Shinran: Path to Purity

1987

Night Train

as Isaburo Tamura

1987

Tokyo Blackout

as Nakata

1986

The White Tiger Battalion

1986

Be Free!

as Keizo Hasegawa

1986

April Fish

as Panapora Chief Handa

1986

Cabaret

as Yakuza boss

1985

Vendetta of Obligation

1985

The Last True Yakuza

as Kazumasa Tashiro

1985

The Sound of the Waves

1985

Love: Starting on a Journey

1984

Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

1984

The Story of a Man Among Men

1984

Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta

1984

Fireflies in the North

as Ishikura

1984

Zero

as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

1984

Kukai

1984

Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Con...

as Yagyu Munefuyu

1983

L・O・V・I・N・G

1983

A Madcap Corporation

1983

Lady Vengeance and the 47 Ronin

1983

The Tale of Saikaido

1983

The Geisha

as Kochi Notable

1983

The Duel in the forbidden territory

1983

Battle Anthem

as Yamamoto

1983

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte...

1982

To Trap a Kidnapper

1982

Suspicion

as Kanetaka Okamura

1982

The Imperial Japanese Empire

as Hideki Tojo

1982

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun

1982

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

as Uichi Suda, The Big Boss

1981

Call from Darkness

as Sugibayashi

1981

The Wild Daisy

as Gozaburo Saito

1981

The Imperial Navy

as Jisaburo Ozawa

1981

The Bushido Blade

as Lord Yamato

1981

Samurai Reincarnation

as Muramasa

1981

Flames of Blood

1981

The Last Days of Planet Earth

as Dr. Nishiyama

1980

Shogun's Ninja

as Tozawa Hakuunsai

1980

Drive for the Future

as Akiji Nishikawa

1980

Port Arthur

as Gentaro Kodama

1980

The Sand Boat

1980

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The ...

as Tatsuo Akashi

1980

The Way to The Gold Medals

as President Sakakibara

1979

The Shogun Assassins

as Kato Kiyomasa

1979

Dead Angle

1979

Hunter in the Dark

as Okitsugu Tanuma

1979

Nichiren

1978

The Fall of Ako Castle

as Yanagisawa

1978

Never Give Up

as General Wada

1978

Monument to Holy Service

1978

August without Emperor

as Army General Mikami

1978

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

as Kichibei

1978

The Incident

as Lawyer Kikuchi

1978

Message from Space

as Ernest Noguchi

1978

Shogun's Samurai

as Ogasawara Gensinsai

1977

Sugata Sanshiro

as Iinuma

1977

High Seas Hijack

as Captain Munekata

1977

Mount Hakkoda

as Colonel Kojima

1977

Flickering Flames

1977

The Alaska Story

as Arashuk

1976

Murderer!

as Nīto Kouken

1976

Zero Fighter

as Captain Saito

1976

The Corporation

1976

Seven Nights in Japan

as Terrorist Leader (uncredited)

1976

The Classroom of Terror

1976

Human Revolution II

1976

Operation Plazma in Osaka

1975

The International Gang of Kobe

as Rinsei

1975

Company Buggers

1975

Conflagration

as Captain Munekata

1975

The Bullet Train

as Sunaga

1975

Tidal Wave

as Prime Minister Yamato

1975

All Men Are Brothers

as Lu Chun I

1975

雪夫人繪圖

1974

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

as Shugi

1974

The Castle of Sand

as Detective Eitaro Imanishi

1974

Karafuto 1945 Summer

1974

Prophecies of Nostradamus

as Dr. Nishiyama

1974

Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus

as Himself

1974

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

as Nagumo

1974

Violent Streets

as Shimamura Kansai

1973

Submersion of Japan

as Prime Minister Yamamoto

1973

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

1973

Wild Cop 2

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Prox...

as Tatsuo Akashi

1973

The Human Revolution

1973

Japan's Top Gangster

as Noboru Yamaguchi

1973

The School Deviate Waru

1973

Quarreling with Yakuza

1973

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten E...

as Shino

1973

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

1972

Informal Dress

1972

Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny

as Kagemetsuke

1972

Yakuza Skirmishes

1972

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Hum...

1972

Shōwa Gokudōshi

1972

Shadow Hunters

1972

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

1972

The Water Margin

as Jade Unicorn, Lu Chun I

1972

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

as Sergeant Katsuo Togashi

1971

Silence

as Cristóvão Ferreira

1971

The Armed Organization

1971

Troops of Darkness

1971

The Wolves

as Genryu Asakura

1971

The Gambler's Counterattack

as Chief Inspector

1971

The Battle of Okinawa

as Lieutenant General Isamu Cho

1971

King of Pornography

1970

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

1970

Postwar Secrets

as Kuroki

1970

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide...

1970

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

as Soshun Kochiyama

1970

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Ali...

as Hyoe

1970

Rise and Fall of Chivalry

1969

やくざ番外地　抹殺

1969

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the ...

1969

The 5-Man Army

as Samurai

1969

Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gamb...

1969

Lone Rebel

1969

The Private Police

1969

Penitentiary Brothers

1969

Sky Scraper!

1969

Goyokin

as Rokugo Tatewaki

1968

Black Lizard

as Kuroki

1968

Snake Woman's Curse

as Commander

1968

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

1968

The Bad Boss

1968

Diamonds of the Andes

1968

Blackmail Is My Life

1968

The Code of Man

1968

Army Intelligence

as Lieutenant Colonel Akiyama

1968

Gambler's Farewell

as Tetsuji Kasai

1967

The Return of the Filthy Seven

1967

Game of Chance 3

1967

King of the Gang

1967

Hawk of the Harbour

1967

Organized Violence II

as Police Inspector Kitagawa

1967

Portrait of Chieko

as Kotaro Takamura

1967

You Only Live Twice

as Tiger Tanaka

1967

Once and For All

1967

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo

1967

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

1967

Dissolution Rites

as Sakai

1967

Organized Violence

1966

Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave

as J1 (TULIP Japan Branch Chief)

1966

Continental Drifter

1966

The Kii River

as Shintani Kosaku

1966

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era

1966

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

as Lord Tsushima Yagyu

1966

Thirst for Love

as Kosuke Aso

1965

High-Ranking Yakuza

1965

Blood of Revenge

as Yutaro Nomura

1965

Blood and Law

1965

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

1965

Samurai Spy

as Sakon Takatani

1965

The Gambler

1965

Ankoku gai jingi

1965

Abashiri Prison

as Tsumaki

1965

Tale of Ninja Duty

as Mumyo Tsunataro

1965

Kwaidan

as Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

1964

Gamblers and Racketeers

1964

Samurai from Somewhere

1964

Detective

1964

Revenge

as Shume Okuno

1964

Giant Rumble

1964

The 7th Dawn

as Ng

1964

The Shogun's Vault

1964

Assassination

as Hachiro Kiyokawa

1964

Homicide

as Lieutenant Aikawa

1964

Three Outlaw Samurai

as Sakon Shiba

1964

売春地下組織

1964

An Outlaw

1964

Destroyer Yukikaze

1964

The Kingdom of Jirocho 3

1964

Jakoman and Tetsu

as Jakoman

1964

Samurai from Nowhere

as Gunjuro Ohba

1964

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang

1963

13 Assassins

as Doi Ōkō Toshi

1963

Tange Sazen

1963

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

as Gu Shimizu

1963

Element of Surprise

1963

Futari dake no toride

1963

Ano hito wa ima

1963

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

as Goro Kawamoto

1963

Kizu-darake no futeki-sha

1963

Gang and G-Men Part 2

as 手塚徹

1963

Eleven Gangsters

1962

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze

1962

Operation Diamond

as Kazuo Kasami

1962

Umineko ga tonde

1962

Gang vs. G-Men

as Toru Tezuka

1962

Tokyo Untouchable

as Goro Kawamoto

1962

Hell's Kitchen

1962

A Flame at the Pier

1962

Harakiri

as Hikokuro Omodaka

1962

Gang vs. Gang

1962

Four Sisters

as Masao Igarashi

1962

Zankokuna tsuki

1962

G-Men in the Pacific

as Mizuhara

1962

The Challenge

as Takayama

1962

All Rascals

1962

Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3

1962

Kuro to aka no hanabira

1962

South Pacific Waves Are High

1961

Greed in Broad Daylight

as Miyahara

1961

Bridge to the Sun

as Jiro

1961

Standing Towards the Great Forest

1961

The Yellow Climate

1961

Mist and Shadows

as Yusuke Komiya

1961

Red Flowers of Hell

1961

Kaachan

1961

Pigs and Battleships

as Slasher Tetsuji

1961

Daredevil in the Castle

as Sadamasa Ishikawa

1960

Get 'em All

as Tanabe

1960

The Gambling Samurai

as Fumizo Mitsuki

1960

Zero sen no jorō gun

1960

Female Slave Ship

1959

Kingorō no kaigun taishô

1959

Mukeisatsu

1959

Rajo to satsujin-meiro

as Senba

1959

The Pacific War and the International Mi...

1958

Kyōen Kobanzame

1958

Underwater Murder

1958

Quick on the Trigger

1958

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Jap...

as Keisuke Otori

1958

A Wicked Woman

as Ihei Ôsawa

1957

Queen of Asia

1957

Hibari no san'yaku: Zoku Kei tsuya yuki ...

1957

Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jô...

1957

The Ghost of Kasane

as Jinjûrô Ômura

1957

剣聖　暁の三十六番斬り

1957

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japane...

as Rear Admiral Shimamura

1957

Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Br...

as Mondonoshô Hirano

1957

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's He...

as Aboshi Samajirô

1956

Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition

1956

The Ceiling at Utsunomiya

as Kurozumi Tenzen

1956

President Rai of Kingoro

1956

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

1956

The Prosecutor and His Sister

1956

Kingoro's Soldier

1956

Speed King

1956

The Fencing Collegian

1956

Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko

1955

花眞珠

1955

Twilight Saloon

as Morimoto

1955

Mysterious Dwarf

1955

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

1954

日本敗れず

1954

Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced

1954

Hanran

as Captain Koda