Known For
Acting
Born
Mar 25, 1912
Died
Mar 21, 1992
Place of Birth
Kyoto, Japan
Credits
230 titles
Haruo Tanaka
Biography
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
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