Haruo Tanaka
Acting

Haruo Tanaka

Born 25 March 1912 · Kyoto, Japan · Died 21 March 1992

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.

Known for

Ikiru
Good Morning
Floating Weeds
Tokyo Twilight
Street of Shame
Chikamatsu Monogatari
The Lower Depths
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Early Spring
No Regrets for Our Youth
A Geisha
The Pornographers
The Funeral
Flames of Blood
I Saw a Monster Fish
The Detective Journey
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
Inferno of Torture
Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
Trapped, the Crimson Bat
Samurai Geisha
Rogue
Record of a Girls' High School Doctor: First Time
Duel in the Storm
The Man Without a Map
Kawachi's Futen Tribe
Mesu ga osu o kuikorosu: Kamakiri
Women Doing Time
Contemporary Tales of Chivalry 2
Seven Fugitives
By a Man's Face Shall You Know Him
The Pornographers
The Protector
Third Class Soldier Boss
This Is Youth!
Tenamonya Tôkaidô
The Kingdom of Jirocho 4
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
Snake Princess: Oshima and Sentaro
The Domain: The Naniwa Story
Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness
Escape and the Law
Blind Monk Swordsman
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
A Story from Echigo
Revenge
Samurai from Somewhere
Gamblers and Racketeers
Group Burglars Break the Magistrate's Office
Gambler
A Laughable Journey
The Rabble
Could I But Live
Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers
Ara kure kōya
Gambler Tales of Hasshu: A Man's Pledge
The Kingdom of Jirocho 2
Tattoo of Love
The Kingdom of Jirocho 1
Bad Reputation: Imposter's Paradise
Twin Sisters of Kyoto
New Marital Relations
Aitsu bakari ga naze moteru
The Body
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
Case of a Young Lord 10: The Mystery of the Spider Lady
Gakusei geisha koi to kenka
The Ambitious Youth
Travels of Hibari and Chiemi: The Tumultuous Journey
Drunken Sword
Good Rascals
Tales of President Mito
A Revengeful Raid
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
Jirocho' s Days of Youth: Whirlwind on the Tokaido
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region
Lord Mito: Struggle of Suke and Kaku
Bride of White Castle
A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji
The Shogun and the Fishmonger
Restoration Fire
Case of a Young Lord 9: Black Camellia
An Edo Magistrate
Jirocho’s Days of Youth: Boss of the Tokai Region
Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill
Heavenly Dragon
Unwieldy Brothers
Morning Breeze in Edo
Scarier than the Devil
Hanjiro of Kusama: Bird of Passage
The Pirates
Samurai Vagabonds
The Man Who Came to Shimizu Harbor
Lord of Red Banner
Yakuza of Ina
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 4
The Five Jolly Thieves
Good Morning
Floating Weeds
The Big Boss
The Edo Official and Apprentice
Gentle Breeze
Shingo's Original Challenge, Part 1 and 2
Ghost Story: One Eyed Jizo
Echo in the Mountains
Happily Tied to the Road
Violent Ishimatsu
Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts
Shōbushi to sono musume
The Undefeated Woman
Isshin Tasuke: A World in Danger
Yajikita dōchū sugoroku
Yaji and Kita's Ghost Story Journey
A Boy and Three Mothers
Angkor Wat Story - Beautiful Sadness
Nitōhei monogatari: Shindara kami-sama no maki
The Rickshaw Man
Police Precinct Part 8
Gomen asobase Hanamuko sensei
Scops-Owl Sermon
The Lower Depths
Ôban
Last Days of the Samurai
Hadaka no Machi
Geisha in the Old City
Snow Country
Dancing Girl
Downtown
Tokyo Twilight
Untamed Woman
Travel Romances
The Shadow Daughter
First Love Story
Turtledove
The Ornery Entrance to the Sumo Ring with a Sword
Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island
Sisters of Gion
A Wife's Heart
The Ghosts of Yotsuya
The Legend of the White Serpent
Shozo, a Cat and Two Women
Early Spring
Rainy Night Duel
Children Seeking a Mother
Street of Shame
Settlement of Love
Eacape of Fear
A Strong Wind Blows
The Wicked Boy
The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji
While the Demon Steps Out
A Man's Flower Path
Funny Fellows
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Blind Wolf
Nonki saiban
Marital Relations
Jirochô yûkyôden: Akiba no himatsuri
Terror Stalks by Night
Chikamatsu Monogatari
The Woman in the Rumor
Yakuza bayashi
An Inn at Osaka
Daikichi Konomura
Ghost Man
Jirocho's New Year
Last of the Wild Ones
Jirocho in Disgrace
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
My Six Favorite Men — Speedy Men
Utsukushiki taka
Mole Alley
Where Chimneys Are Seen
珍説忠臣蔵
Merciless Blade Part 2
Merciless Blade Part 3
Jirocho Begins His Roving Life
Jirocho's Home-Coming
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Jirocho, the Hunted
Her Captive Gamblers
A Geisha
Zoku Tange Sazen
Tange Sazen
Ikiru
Farewell to Spring
Divorce
Dimple of Tokyo
A Ripple in a Morning
Jirocho Rises in Fame
Chakkari fujin to ukkari fujin
Repast
Ginza Cosmetics
Tsuki yori no haha
Miki, the Swordman
Dorei no machi
The Burning Prison
Tenpo Suikoden - Otone's Night Fog
Heat and Mud
Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka
Enoken the Hero
Portrait of Madame Yuki
Snow-Flake
Escape at Dawn
Shojohou
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Enoken’s Boxing Generation
Mr. Shosuke Ohara
Akireta musumetachi
Hills of a Foreign Country
The Beauty of the Evening Sky
The Virgin Who Embraced the Rainbow
A Flower Blooms
365 Nights
Enoken's Home Run King
Fujisancho
365 Nights: Tokyo
The Devil of Edo
A Thousand and One Nights with Toho
Once More
Invitation to Happiness
An Enemy of the People
No Regrets for Our Youth
Hinoki Butai
Beauty
A Tale of Archery at the Sanjusangendo
Duel at Yagyu Valley
Three Women of the North
Uta e! Taiyō
The Dawn of Freedom
音楽大進軍
Bouquet of the South Seas
Omokage no machi
The Straits of Love and Hate
Chūshingura - Ninjō-hen; Fukushū-hen
The Passion of a Woman Teacher
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