The best Jirō Tamiya’s movies

Jirō Tamiya

Jirō Tamiya

25/08/1935- 29/12/1978
Today we present the best Jirō Tamiya’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jirō Tamiya’s movies.
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Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 11/08/1973
  • Character: Kimura
A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

Black Test Car

Black Test Car
7.1/10
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi
7.1/10
  • Genre: ActionDrama
  • Release: 13/07/1973
  • Character: Kojiro Sasaki
In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.

Flower and Dragon

Flower and Dragon
6.1/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 17/03/1973
Kingoro Tamai moves with his wife and son to the port city of Wakamatsu. He organizes the Tamai-gumi, a stevedore group, to vie for work with two other powerful groups. Gingo is Tamai's chief rival who falls in love with the latter's wife and tries to kill Tamai.

A Woman's Testament

A Woman's Testament
6.8/10
  • Release: 14/01/1960
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.

Trigger Happy Romeo

Trigger Happy Romeo
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 24/12/1965
  • Character: Daisuke Kamoi
Fifth film in the "Inu" series.

The Great White Tower

The Great White Tower
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/10/1966
  • Character: Goro
The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

Bad Reputation Returns

Bad Reputation Returns
6.4/10
  • Release: 17/12/1961
  • Character: Seiji

The Silent Gun

The Silent Gun
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 14/10/1967
  • Character: Daisuke Kamoi
A series of murders has been committed by someone with a new model gun, a Mord-Gessel X 38. Indeed, Daisuke himself is almost killed while investigating the case. This occurred while he was with Ritsuko, daughter of a company president. Detective Kimura thinks that the president himself, returned to Japan after an absence of fifteen years, might be the killer, or at least the man who supplied the gun. Ritsuko's father limps and though she explains this as the result of a traffic accident, Kimura remembers a narcotics smuggler named Suginami who shot himself in the ankle and then escaped from the hospital. He believes that the company president and the drug peddler are the same.

The Family

The Family
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/01/1974
  • Character: Ataru Mima
Adaptation of the novel by Toyoko Yamasaki.

The Third Will

The Third Will
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/03/1963

Love and Greed

Love and Greed
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/02/1964
Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

A Woman's Life

A Woman's Life
7/10
  • Release: 18/11/1962
  • Character: Eiji Tsutsumi
One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

Night Mist Makes Women Cry

Night Mist Makes Women Cry
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/02/1962
  • Character: Junji Hashimoto
A love melodrama.

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Men and Their Specialty
5.9/10
  • Release: 13/01/1968
The Akumyō (悪名, "bad name") series consists of seventeen yakuza films starring Shintaro Katsu, produced between 1960 and 1974. A remake and a direct-to-video sequel starring Kōji Matoba were produced in 2001.

Bury Me Deep

Bury Me Deep
  • Genre: DramaMystery
  • Release: 08/06/1963
  • Character: Kyosuke Nakabe

Theater Of Life

Theater Of Life
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/07/1972
Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.

Superexpress

Superexpress
6.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/10/1964
  • Character: Keiichi Kikyo
A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired.

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 16/10/1969
  • Character: Hitoshi Fujii
This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

The Great Villain

The Great Villain
7.5/10
  • Release: 24/02/1968
  • Character: Nihei Tokuda
Psychological action drama about the activities of a corrupt lawyer.

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