The best Kunie Tanaka’s fantasy movies

Kunie Tanaka

Kunie Tanaka

23/11/1932- 24/03/2021
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kunie Tanaka’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kunie Tanaka.

Kwaidan

Kwaidan
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasyHorror
  • Release: 29/12/1964
  • Character: Yasaku (segment "Miminashi Hôichi no hanashi")
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

Pitfall

Pitfall
7.5/10
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Resurrection

Resurrection
6.6/10
When dead people starts returning to the small Japanese town of Aso, government official Kawada is dispatched to uncover the “truth”.

Hoshi wo tsugu mono

Hoshi wo tsugu mono
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 03/02/1990
  • Character: Kenji Yoshida
An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

Sasuke and His Comedians

Sasuke and His Comedians
6.3/10
Osaka in the early 1600s, aftermath of the historical Battle of Sekigahara; a group of orphan children are wandering through the battlefield scavenging for armour when they encounter a young boy named Sasuke with magical powers he says came from a meteor that crashed onto the Earth…

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