Searching for: Tetsuro Tamba|
| Viewing 1 through 10 of 44 total results | | Clockwork Fighters: Hiwou's War, Vol. 3 Anime PG-13 | 
 | It has been nearly eight years since feudal Japan was visited by the first black ships of the western world. As uneasy treaty has been forced between the United States and the Tokugawa Shogunate. Resentment grows amongst the populace and a new sentiment spreads. Revere the Emperor and drive out the Westerners! Spreading almost as quickly are a number of clockwork and steam powered devices. Manipulating these devices is an evil organization bent on conquering the nation and forcing a new industri...
Cast: Hiroshi Osaka
Director: Tetsuro Amino | | Iria - Zeiram The Animation - The Complete Collection Anime R | 
 | Iria and her brother Gren, a pair of young bounty hunters, were dispatched on a standard rescue mission, but what they find was more terrifying than anything they could have imagined. A bizarre alien was secretly being imported for clandestine uses, and now it is loose to wreak havoc on the unknowing populace.
How can a novice bounty hunter possibly defeat an unstoppable beast like Zeiram?
Cast: Iria - Zeiram the Animation
Director: Tetsuro Amino | | Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight Foreign NR | 
 | Japanese cult movie guru Teruo Ishii (Horror Of Malformed Men, Blind Woman's Curse) directs this stylishly deranged adaptation of the original manga by Kazuo Koike (Lone Wolf And Cub, Lady Snowblood, and Razor Hanzo). Tetsuro Tanba (You Only Live Twice, Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs) plays Shiro, a mercenary ronin swordsman. Believing life and death to be the same hell, he attempts suicide, but is revived by two lovely prostitutes who are members of a local gang, the Bohachi. This is an organization...
Cast: Tetsuro Tanba
Director: Teruo Ishii | | Zero Woman:Red Handcuffs Foreign NR | 
 | Based on a manga by Toru Shinohara, the Zero Woman series was a popular Japanese exploitation franchise of the 1970s, and it holds up strikingly well today. RED HANDCUFFS begins with female cop Rei (Miki Sugimoto), otherwise known as Agent Zero, seducing a Westerner who has been killing women with his sadistic sexual fetishes. Once she gets him back to the hotel room, however, she metes out her own brand of justice, of which her fellow cops do not approve, and Rei promptly lands in jail. Elsewhe...
Cast: Tetsuro Tanba, Ichiro Araki, Eliji Go, Miki Sugimoto, Hideo Murota
Director: Yukio Noda | | Goyokin Action & Adventure NR | 
 | A young samurai
Directed by Hideo Gosha (Three Outlaw Samurai) and starring Tatsuya Nakadai (Ran) and the ace Tetsuro Tanba, Goyokin tells the story of a haunted samurai named Magobei, returning home to the site of a past massacre to seek revenge and calm for his soul. The clan he abandoned intends to instigate a heartless massacre akin to an earlier reign of terror that caused him to resign his position and leave the clan. Protecting the last survivor of the massacre, a woman named Oriha, Mago...
Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai, Kunie Tanaka, Ruriko Asaoka, Tetsuro Tanba, Yoko Tsukasa
Director: Hideo Gosha | | Samurai Spy - Criterion Collection Foreign NR | 
 | Years of warfare end in a Japan unified under the Tokugawa shogunate, and samurai spy Sasuke Sarutobi, tired of conflict, longs for peace. When a high-ranking spy named Koriyama defects from the shogun to a rival clan, however, the world of swordsmen is thrown into turmoil. After Sarutobi is unwittingly drawn into the conflict, he tracks Koriyama, while a mysterious, white-hooded figure seems to hunt them both. By tale's end, no one is who they seemed to be, and the truth is far more personal th...
Cast: Tetsuro Tamba
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | | Wild Zero (Special Edition) Horror NR | 
 | Japan's Rock 'n' Roll Zombie Horror Classic!
Ace, a rockabilly fan who really wants to be cool, is on his way to seeing his favorite group Guitar Wolf, when a strange thing occurs.......aliens invade Earth and people start returning to life as flesh eating zombies! Enlisting the help of real life Japanese rock/punk band Guitar Wolf (and self-proclaimed coolest rock band in the world) , Ace and the members of the band get entangled in many misadventures with crazy rock managers in very tight sho...
Cast: Takeushi Tetsuro
Director: Takeuchi, Tesuro | | Philosophy of a Knife Limited Edition Horror NR | 
 | Philosophy Of A Knife tells the shocking true story of the infamous Unit 731, the covert biological and chemical warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army. The film is a complete history of the unit from its beginnings in the 1930s to its demise in 1945, and the subsequent trials in Khabarovsk, USSR, of the many doctors and soldiers responsible for some of the most notorious war crimes ever perpetrated. Previously unknown evidence is revealed by an eyewitness to the awf...
Cast: Yukari Fujimoto, Tetsuro Sakagami, Elena Probatova
Director: Andrey Iskanov | | Rebel Samurai - Sixties Swordplay Classics (Criterion Collection) Foreign NR | 
 | The reliably excellent Criterion Collection presents these four diverse and intriguing 1960s samurai films. Not as well known as those of, for instance, Akira Kurosawa, these movies nevertheless make important contributions to the genre in their own ways, and they play with its conventions even as they add to its myths and legends. Director Masahiro Shinoda weaves a complex, twisty narrative in the aptly named SAMURAI SPY, which follows war- and subterfuge-weary warrior Sasuke Sarutobi (Tetsuro...
Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Tetsuro Tamba, Kunie Tanaka, Mikijiro Hira, Misako Watanabe, Isao Yamagata, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Shima Iwashita, Eijiro Tono, Toshie Kimura, Go Kato, Eiji Okada, Etsushi Takahashi
Director: Kihachi Okamoto | | Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky Action & Adventure NR | 
 |
In the not-so-distant future, overburdened national budgets have forced the privitazation of most government institutions. Even prisons have become franchised, commercial ventures.
When mild-mannered Ricky takes revenge on the drug-pushing thugs who killed his girlfriend, he is sentenced to an ultra maximum-security prison. Within the prison walls lies a penitentiary like no other, run by a host of evil characters, including a sadistic warden, his assistant, and The Gang of Four, a group of ...
Cast: Ho Kar Kui, Yukari Oshima, Fan Mui Sang, Tetsuro Tanpa, Fan Siu Wong, Gloria Yip
Director: Nam Nai Choi | |
|
|
