Haruo Tanaka
Actor
Born March 25, 1912 in Kyoto, Japan
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
Old Man
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 fūten zoku
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
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
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
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Morning Breeze in Edo
Otoboke Senta
Scarier than the Devil
Heavenly Dragon
Yumatsu
The Pirates
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Unwieldy Brothers
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Yakuza of Ina
Teruyoshi
Lord of Red Banner
Samurai Vagabonds
Floating Weeds
Yatazo
Echo in the Mountains
Yadashi Ukontaro
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo
Gentle Breeze
Good Morning
Tatsuzo Haraguchi
Samurai Saga
(uncredited)
Happily Tied to the Road
Mishima
The Big Boss
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
The Undefeated Woman
Yaji and Kita's Ghost Story Journey
Police Precinct Part 8
The Rickshaw Man
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
Company commander Yamane
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Daizaburô Tani
A Boy and Three Mothers
Travel Romances
Down Town
Geisha in the Old City
Yasukichi
The Lower Depths
Tatsu
First Love Story
Tokuzo
Hadaka no Machi
Last Days of the Samurai
The Shadow Daughter
Untamed Woman
Fusayoshi
Turtledove
Snow Country
Porter
Tokyo Twilight
Komatsu's Customer
Ôban
Noodle Shop Owner
Dancing Girl
Tamura
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
A Strong Wind Blows
Managing Director Tadokoro
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Hagimura
Children Seeking a Mother
Carpenter
Eacape of Fear
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
Naosuke
The Legend of the White Serpent
Li Gong Fu
The Wicked Boy
Sisters of Gion
A Wife's Heart
Settlement of Love
Street of Shame
Osaka Salesman
Early Spring
Nomura
Rainy Night Duel
Joji the coolie procurer
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Kumagoro the horse thief
Marital Relations
Nonki saiban
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
Chikamatsu Monogatari
Gifuya Dôki
Ghost Man
Yosuke Kikuchi
Daikichi Konomura
Jinbei Yokoii
Jirocho in Disgrace
Yakuza bayashi
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
The Woman in the Rumor
Kawamoto
Last of the Wild Ones
An Inn at Osaka
Jirocho's New Year
Jirocho, the Hunted
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Zoku Tange Sazen
A Geisha
Ogawa
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Merciless Blade Part 3
Merciless Blade Part 2
Her Captive Gamblers
Tange Sazen
Mole Alley
Where Chimneys Are Seen
Chuji Tsukahara
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
珍説忠臣蔵
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Ikiru
Sakai
Dimple of Tokyo
Take-san
Divorce
Fumio Sôma
A Ripple in a Morning
Ito
Farewell to Spring
Sakuzô Furuya
Repast
Miki, the Swordman
Tsuki yori no haha
Goro Aoyama
Ginza Cosmetics
Gonroku Shirai
Shojohou
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Mekkachi no Katsugorô
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Enoken the Hero
Tokugawa Ieyasu
The Burning Prison
Snow-Flake
Okubatake
Heat and Mud
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Escape at Dawn
Noro
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Seizô Kon'no
Akireta musumetachi
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Hills of a Foreign Country
Mitsuo
Enoken’s Boxing Generation
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
Kitao Omachi
365 Nights: Tokyo
Saburo Anenokoji
Enoken's Home Run King
365 Nights
Saburo Anekoji
The Beauty of the Evening Sky
Fujisancho
A Flower Blooms
Invitation to Happiness
The Devil of Edo
Once More
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
No Regrets for Our Youth
Student
Beauty
An Enemy of the People
Hinoki Butai
Uta e! Taiyō
Three Women of the North
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Seijiro
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Fukigawa Genjiro
The Dawn of Freedom
Lt. Sakuragi (military doctor)
音楽大進軍
Publicist Semi
Omokage no machi
Bouquet of the South Seas
Ishikawa, pilot
The Straits of Love and Hate
Kinkichi's friend, Hirose
A Story of Floating Weeds
Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
The Passion of a Woman Teacher