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Akio Tanaka

Born September 21, 1926Died January 19, 200335 films

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Tampopo posterFirst watchTampopo19857.8as SalarymanIn this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles.View film

Essential films

Ranked by acclaim and reach
Pale Flower poster7.4Pale Flower1964

Filmography

35 films as actor
  1. 1994Osaka Gokudo Senso: Shinoidare
  2. 1993The Last DanceFilm Producer
  3. 1992Minbo, or The Gentle Art of Japanese ExtortionYakuza Boss
  4. 1990Detective Kyosuke Kozu's Murder Reasoning 10
  5. 1990Heaven and Earth: Dawn Episode
  6. 1990Tuff Part I - Origin
  7. 1987A Taxing WomanBank Branch Manager
  8. 1986Surgical Designs in Flames
  9. 1985TampopoSalaryman
  10. 1982Fossilized Wilderness
  11. 1973The Petrified Forest
  12. 1969Flying Phantom ShipChairman Kuroshio (voice)
  13. 1969Kekkon shimasu
  14. 1965The School of Flesh
  15. 1964Pale FlowerStout Customer
  16. 1963Hell FestivalDaigoro Kurozuka
  17. 1963午前零時の出獄
  18. 1962A Man with Dragon Tattoos
  19. 1962Night of Bloody Hell
  20. 1962Kidō sōsahan Minato no ryakudatsu-sha
  21. 1962Me o tsubutte tsuppashire
  22. 1962Quick Draw Sanshiro
  23. 1962Kidō sōsahan Tōkyō gozenreiji
  24. 1962Yami ni kieta shisha
  25. 1962Sugata Naki Tsuisekisha
  26. 1962Aniki
  27. 1962Mexico Drifter
  28. 1961The Storm over ArabiaNishioka
  29. 1961Lost in the Sun
  30. 1961Gambler in the Sea
  31. 1961The Man with a ShotgunNishioka
  32. 1961Doing What I Please
  33. 1960Blood Is Dry
  34. 1960Tatsumaki kozō
  35. 1958I Want to Be a Shellfish