Tetsuro Tamba (July 17, 1922 – September 24, 2006) was a distinguished Japanese actor known for his versatile talent across five decades. Recognized globally for his portrayal of Tiger Tanaka in the iconic 1967 James Bond film You Only Live Twice, Tambas cinematic journey was a remarkable blend of cultural bridges.Before embarking on his acting career, Tamba worked as an interpreter for the Allied Powers Supreme Commander. Graduating from Chuo University in 1948, he later joined Shintoho company, making his debut in the film Satsujin Yougishain in 1951.Tambas impact on Western audiences extended beyond Bond, with standout performances in films like Bridge to the Sun and The 7th Dawn. He earned acclaim in Japan as well, most notably as the lead in police dramas like Key Hunter and G-Men 75.His talents werent confined to the screen alone. Tamba lent his voice to characters like the Cat King in Studio Ghiblis The Cat Returns and graced historical roles in television dramas, leaving an indelible mark on period pieces.In 2005, Tamba faced health challenges but continued to contribute until the end. Sadly, he passed away in Tokyo at 84 due to pneumonia on September 24, 2006. His legacy lives on through his son, actor Yoshitaka Tamba, while his last appearances in the 2005 Taiga drama Yoshitsune and the 2006 film Sinking of Japan remain a testament to his enduring impact on Japanese cinema and beyond.

Minden film elérhető innen Tetsuro Tamba

Poster movie Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka

Film
Poster movie The Executioner II: Karate Inferno

The Executioner II: Karat

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Poster movie Shogun's Shadow

Shogun's Shadow

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Poster movie Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga

Battles Without Honor and

Film
Poster movie Shogun's Ninja

Shogun's Ninja

Film
Poster movie High Seas Hijack

High Seas Hijack

Film
Poster movie The Bullet Train

The Bullet Train

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Poster movie Four Sisters

Four Sisters

Film
Poster movie Shogun's Samurai

Shogun's Samurai

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Filmek -tól nem elérhető Tetsuro Tamba

You Only Live Twice

Tiger Tanaka

Film 1967

Minamoto Yoshitsune

Film 1991

Kwaidan

Warrior (segment "Hoichi the Earless")

Film 1965

Operation Diamond

Kazuo Kasami

Film 1962

Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave

J1 (TULIP Japan Branch Chief)

Film 1966

Pigs and Battleships

Slasher Tetsuji

Film 1961

Tokyo Gang Vs. Hong Kong Gang

Film 1964

Demon Pond

Film 2005

South Pacific Waves Are High

Film 1962

Gozu

Film 2003

The Wolves

Genryu Asakura

Film 1971

King of Pornography

Film 1971

The Castle of Sand

Detective Eitaro Imanishi

Film 1974

Hawk of the Harbour

Film 1967

Tokyo Untouchable

Goro Kawamoto

Film 1962

The Cat Returns

Cat King (voice)

Film 2002

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る

Film 1989

The Water Margin

Jade Unicorn, Lu Chun I

Film 1972

13 Assassins

Film 1990

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs

Nagumo

Film 1974

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun

Sergeant Katsuo Togashi

Film 1972

Futari dake no toride

Film 1963

The Happiness of the Katakuris

Granpa Jinpei Katakuri

Film 2002

Hunter in the Dark

Okitsugu Tanuma

Film 1979

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!

Film 1970

The 5-Man Army

Samurai

Film 1969

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky

Master Zhang

Film 1991

Violent Streets

Shimamura Kansai

Film 1974

Samurai Spy

Sakon Takatani

Film 1965

Goyokin

Rokugo Tatewaki

Film 1969

The Peking Man

Osone

Film 1997

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo

Film 1967

Hibari no san'yaku: Zoku Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge

Film 1957

Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge

Film 1957

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I was surprised when I died!!

Ryo Okamoto

Film 1990

Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spiritual World 3: Amazing Reincarnation Story That Ran Around the Whole

Film 1994

The Political Game

Film 1989

Silence

Cristóvão Ferreira

Film 1971

Revenge

Shume Okuno

Film 1964

The Sound of the Waves

Film 1985

The School Deviate Waru

Film 1973

The 7th Dawn

Ng

Film 1964

Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny

Kagemetsuke

Film 1972

Shadow Hunters

Film 1972

Three Outlaw Samurai

Sakon Shiba

Film 1964

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Kichibei

Film 1978

Japanese Hell

Asu Shino

Film 1999

Assassination

Hachiro Kiyokawa

Film 1964

鬼姫競艶録

Film 1956

Submersion of Japan

Prime Minister Yamamoto

Film 1973

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight

Shino

Film 1973

Umineko ga tonde

Film 1962

Blackmail Is My Life

Film 1968

Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun

Film 1983

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special

Film 1988

Screwed

Landlord

Film 1998

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun

Film 1982

Mount Hakkoda

Colonel Kojima

Film 1977

Heat Wave

Denkichi Tsuzaki

Film 1991

Twilight Saloon

Morimoto

Film 1955

Aurora Borealis

Tsuneiro Kamisaka

Film 1990

Bridge to the Sun

Jiro

Film 1961

The Tale of Genji

Film 1991

The Tale of Saikaido

Film 1983

Prophecies of Nostradamus

Dr. Nishiyama

Film 1974

Zero Fighter

Captain Saito

Film 1976

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive

Hyoe

Film 1970

Ino Tadataka: Meridian dreams

Film 2001

Ankoku gai jingi

Film 1965

Zankokuna tsuki

Film 1962

The White Tiger Battalion

Film 1986

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

Soshun Kochiyama

Film 1970

Dai shinrin ni mukatte tatsu

Film 1961

Shōwa Gokudōshi

Film 1972

Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko

Film 1956

Detective

Film 1964

Homicide

Lieutenant Aikawa

Film 1964

Hanran

Captain Koda

Film 1954

Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta

Film 1984

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny

Film 1970

A Taxing Woman's Return

Sadohara

Film 1988

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio

Film 2004

The Return of the Filthy Seven

Film 1967

The Gambler

Film 1965

Sky Scraper!

Film 1969

Kizu-darake no futeki-sha

Film 1963

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape

Goro Kawamoto

Film 1963

The Code of Man

Film 1968

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather

Uichi Suda, The Big Boss

Film 1982

The Kingdom of Jirocho 3

Film 1964

Shura Group

Film 2002

Kim's War

Film 1991

The Duel in the forbidden territory

Film 1983

Red Flowers of Hell

Film 1961

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze

Film 1962

Bond Girls Are Forever

Tiger Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film 2002

The Exotic Locations of 'You Only Live Twice'

Tiger Tanaka (archive footage)

Film 2006

Tokyo Drifters

Film 1966

Best Ever Bond

Tiger Tanaka (archive footage) (uncredited)

Film 2002

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed

Aboshi Samajirô

Film 1957

Element of Surprise

Film 1963

The Imperial Japanese Empire

Hideki Tojo

Film 1982

Zero

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

Film 1984

Battle Anthem

Yamamoto

Film 1983

Monument to Holy Service

Film 1978

Shura Group Part 2

Film 2002

Shura Group Part 1

Film 2002

剣聖　暁の三十六番斬り

Film 1957

You're My Destiny

Film 1987

Ronin on a Mission

Ōishi Kuranosuke

Film 1987

雪夫人繪圖

Film 1975

Seven Nights in Japan

Terrorist Leader (uncredited)

Film 1976

The Gambling Samurai

Fumizo Mitsuki

Film 1960

Never Give Up

General Wada

Film 1978

Battles Without Honor and Humanity

Film 1973

April Fish

Panapora Chief Handa

Film 1986

Tokyo Blackout

Nakata

Film 1987

Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons

Old Master

Film 2000

The Battle of Okinawa

Lieutenant General Isamu Cho

Film 1971

Mukeisatsu

Film 1959

The Alaska Story

Arashuk

Film 1977

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era

Film 1966

A Flame at the Pier

Film 1962

Shinran: Path to Purity

Film 1987

Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown

Film 1994

Kuro to aka no hanabira

Film 1962

Dead Angle

Film 1979

Kukai

Film 1984

Female Neo-Ninjas

Time Patrol leader

Film 1991

金語楼の雷社長

Film 1956

Army Intelligence

Lieutenant Colonel Akiyama

Film 1968

Rajo to satsujin-meiro

Senba

Film 1959

Samurai from Nowhere

Gunjuro Ohba

Film 1964

Speed King

Film 1956

Harakiri

Hikokuro Omodaka

Film 1962

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen

Tetsuo Hatake

Film 2000

The Fencing Collegian

Film 1956

Gang vs. Gang

Film 1962

Kyōen Kobanzame

Film 1958

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

Rear Admiral Shimamura

Film 1957

The Wild Daisy

Gozaburo Saito

Film 1981

Flickering Flames

Film 1977

Kingoro's Soldier

Film 1956

The Bad Boss

Film 1968

Samurai from Somewhere

Film 1964

The Ceiling at Utsunomiya

Kurozumi Tenzen

Film 1956

Blind Beast vs Dwarf Killer

Film 2001

Tokyo Pop

Mr. Dota

Film 1988

Be Free!

Keizo Hasegawa

Film 1986

G-Men in the Pacific

Mizuhara

Film 1962

Tange Sazen

Film 1963

Call from Darkness

Sugibayashi

Film 1981

A Madcap Corporation

Film 1983

Abashiri Prison

Tsumaki

Film 1965

Jubaku: Spellbound

Tajiro Kawakami

Film 1999

Human Revolution II

Film 1976

Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced

Film 1954

Night Train

Isaburo Tamura

Film 1987

Suspicion

Kanetaka Okamura

Film 1982

The Challenge

Takayama

Film 1962

Nezumi Kozō kaitō den

Film 1984

August without Emperor

Army General Mikami

Film 1978

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War

Tatsuo Akashi

Film 1973

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl

Film 1987

The Shogun's Vault

Film 1964

An Outlaw

Film 1964

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze

Film 1968

Quick on the Trigger

Film 1958

Graveyard of Honor

Tetsuji Tokura

Film 2002

Queen of Asia

Film 1957

Conflagration

Captain Munekata

Film 1975

Underwater Murder

Film 1958

All Rascals

Film 1962

Daredevil in the Castle

Sadamasa Ishikawa

Film 1961

Flames of Blood

Film 1981

Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy

Yagyu Munefuyu

Film 1984

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

Film 1959

Kingorō no kaigun taishô

Film 1959

Kaachan

Film 1961

The Incident

Lawyer Kikuchi

Film 1978

Gambler's Farewell

Tetsuji Kasai

Film 1968

The International Gang of Kobe

Rinsei

Film 1975

Mysterious Pygmy

Film 1955

All Men Are Brothers

Lu Chun I

Film 1975

Nichiren

Film 1979

Jakoman and Tetsu

Jakoman

Film 1964

Thirst for Love

Kosuke Aso

Film 1966

Greed in Broad Daylight

Miyahara

Film 1961

Yakuza Ladies 3

Takeo Sakanishi

Film 1989

Blood of Revenge

Yutaro Nomura

Film 1965

The Ghost of Kasane

Jinjûrô Ômura

Film 1957

A Wicked Woman

Ihei Ôsawa

Film 1958

Organized Violence II

Police Inspector Kitagawa

Film 1967

Four Days of Snow and Blood

Jinzaburi Shinzaki

Film 1989

King of the Gang

Film 1967

Penitentiary Brothers

Film 1969

The Private Police

Film 1969

Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3

Film 1962

The Way to The Gold Medals

President Sakakibara

Film 1980

Fireflies in the North

Ishikura

Film 1984

The Last True Yakuza

Kazumasa Tashiro

Film 1985

Gang vs. G-Men

Toru Tezuka

Film 1962

Dissolution Rites

Sakai

Film 1967

Yakuza Skirmishes

Film 1972

Quarreling with Yakuza

Film 1973

Black Lizard

Kuroki

Film 1968

The Ando Gang Documentary Film

Film 1973

Portrait of Chieko

Kotaro Takamura

Film 1967

Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle

Tamba (voice)

Film 1999

The Fall of Ako Castle

Yanagisawa

Film 1978

Samurai Reincarnation

Muramasa

Film 1981

13 Assassins

Doi Ōkō Toshi

Film 1963

Wild Cop 2

Film 1973

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn

Lord Tsushima Yagyu

Film 1966

The Geisha

Kochi Notable

Film 1983

The Imperial Navy

Jisaburo Ozawa

Film 1981

The Yellow Climate

Film 1961

The Classroom of Terror

Film 1976

The Armed Organization

Film 1971

Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room

Film 1969

To Trap a Kidnapper

Film 1982

Eleven Gangsters

Film 1963

Port Arthur

Gentaro Kodama

Film 1980

Twilight of the Cockroaches

Grandpa (voice)

Film 1987

The Shogun Assassins

Kato Kiyomasa

Film 1979

Get 'em All

Tanabe

Film 1960

L・O・V・I・N・G

Film 1983

The Thousand Year Fire

Film 2004

Once and For All

Film 1967

A Case of Murder by the Atami Station Taxi Stand

Film 2003

The Story of a Man Among Men

Film 1984

Destroyer Yukikaze

Film 1964

Blood and Law

Film 1965

Rise and Fall of Chivalry

Film 1970

The Gambler's Counterattack

Chief Inspector

Film 1971

Organized Violence

Film 1967

Informal Dress

Film 1972

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers

Film 1969

The Kii River

Shintani Kosaku

Film 1966

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance

Gu Shimizu

Film 1963

Mist and Shadows

Yusuke Komiya

Film 1961

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes

Film 1955

Female Slave Ship

Film 1960

The Sand Boat

Film 1980

Japan's Top Gangster

Noboru Yamaguchi

Film 1973

The Twilight Samurai

Tozaemon Iguchi

Film 2002

Operation Plazma in Osaka

Film 1976

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory

Film 1972

1750 Days of Turbulence

Film 1990

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido

Film 1967

Postwar Secrets

Kuroki

Film 1970

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry

Film 1965

Murderer!

Nīto Kouken

Film 1976

The Bushido Blade

Lord Yamato

Film 1981

Love: Starting on a Journey

Film 1985

Tale of Ninja Duty

Mumyo Tsunataro

Film 1965

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

Keisuke Otori

Film 1958

Karafuto 1945 Summer

Film 1974

Yakuza Warfare

Film 1991

School Be-In Bully

Ryotaro Sakurazawa

Film 1990

Vendetta of Obligation

Film 1985

The Great Duel

Film 1964

The Human Revolution

Film 1973

The Making Of The Katakuris

Film 2001

Game of Chance 3

Film 1967

Company Buggers

Film 1975

Gamblers and Racketeers

Film 1964

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm

Film 1972

Cabaret

Yakuza boss

Film 1986

Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus

Himself

Film 1974

Message from Space

Ernest Noguchi

Film 1978

The Stupid Teacher

Utaemon Baba

Film 2000

The Supernormal II

Film 1993

Sugata Sanshiro

Iinuma

Film 1977

Troops of Darkness

Film 1971

Teruo Ishii Fan Club

Film 2006

Taira no Kiyomori

Film 1992

The Great Shogunate Battle

Film 1991

Gang and G-Men Part 2

手塚徹

Film 1963

Lone Rebel

Film 1969

The Corporation

Film 1976

T.R.Y.

Film 2003

Hell's Kitchen

Film 1962

Drive for the Future

Akiji Nishikawa

Film 1980

花眞珠

Film 1955

Tabaruzaka

Film 1987

The Prosecutor and His Sister

Film 1956

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die

吉野博士

Film 1989

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

Film 1956

The Hitman Blood Smells Like Roses

Film 1991

Zero sen no jorō gun

Film 1960

Snake Woman's Curse

Commander

Film 1968

Tokyo: The Last War

Film 1989

Yakuza Demon

Michitane Tendou

Film 2003

Lady Vengeance and the 47 Ronin

Film 1983

High-Ranking Yakuza

Film 1965

Serie televisive -tól nem elérhető Tetsuro Tamba

Ōgon no Hibi

Imai Sōkyū

Tv 1978

Kaseifu wa mita!

Tv 1997

Order Made ~Shiawase Iro no Shinshi Fuku Mise~

Tv 2004

Yoshitsune

Minamoto no Yorimasa (Gen-ji)

Tv 2005

Yumemiru Budo

Tv 2003

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen

Tv 1990

Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho

Tv 1982

HOTEL

Ohara Tetsutaro

Tv 1990

Toshiie and Matsu

Tarozaemon Iguchi

Tv 2002

Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches

Naruse Hayatonosho

Tv 1986

水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵

平田無二斎

Tv 1984

Gokenin Zankuro

Tv 1995

Hanshichi Torimonochō

Tv 1992

Hashiran ka!

前田米吉

Tv 1995

Coming Home

Shirota Fukuzo

Tv 1994

Sanada Taiheiki

Sanada Masayuki

Tv 1985

新幹線物語'93夏

黒木哲也

Tv 1993

Marco Polo

Vasaio

Tv 1982

Inochi

Takahara Masamichi

Tv 1986

Byakkotai

Jinbo Kuranosuke

Tv 1986

The Veteran Trio

Inui Sanshiro

Tv 1999