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Daisuke Tengan

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Daisuke Tengan

Born December 14, 1959 in Tokyo, Japan19 films

He is the first son of director Shohei Imamura. He graduated from Ryuku University. In 1984 he joined Shinchosha but left in 1991 to pursue a creative career. His directing debut was in 1990.

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13 Assassins posterFirst watch13 Assassins20107.3A bravado period action film set at the end of Japan's feudal era in which a group of unemployed samurai are enlisted to bring down a sadistic lord and prevent him from ascending to the…View film

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Filmography

19 films
  1. 2026Bad Lieutenant: TokyoWriter
  2. 2025Meet Me at Angie’s BarScreenplay
  3. 2011DenderaScreenplay
  4. 201013 AssassinsScreenplay
  5. 2008The Most Beautiful Night In The WorldWriter
  6. 2006Waiting in the DarkScreenplay
  7. 2006ImprintTeleplay
  8. 2005Detective Office 5Writer
  9. 2002AikiWriter
  10. 2002September 11Writer
  11. 2001Warm Water Under a Red BridgeScreenplay
  12. 2000AuditionScreenplay
  13. 1998Dr. AkagiScreenplay
  14. 1998BloodScreenplay
  15. 1997The EelScreenplay
  16. 1996The TrapScreenplay
  17. 1995The Stairway to the Distant PastScreenplay
  18. 1994The Most Terrible Time in My LifeScreenplay
  19. 1991Asian Beat: I Love NipponScreenplay