
Tetsuro Tamba
Biography
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," Tamba's cinematic journey was a remarkable blend of cultural bridges.…
Filmography

Yakuza Skirmishes
1972 · 10.0

Once and For All
1967 · 10.0

Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers
1963 · 10.0

The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
1964 · 10.0

Sugata Sanshiro
1977 · 10.0

Flickering Flames
1977 · 10.0

Gamblers and Racketeers
1964 · 10.0

The Political Game
1989 · 10.0

Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1969 · 10.0

Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1964 · 10.0

Drive for the Future
1980 · 10.0

Eleven Gangsters
1963 · 10.0

High Seas Hijack
1977 · 10.0

Diamonds of the Andes
1968 · 10.0

New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972 · 10.0
Kaachan
1961 · 10.0

Kill the Killer!
1961 · 10.0

Mysterious Dwarf
1955 · 10.0

Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990 · 9.5

Postwar Secrets
1970 · 9.5

Kukai
1984 · 9.5

The Veteran Trio
1999 · 9.0

King of the Gang
1967 · 9.0

Operation Diamond
1962 · 9.0

The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955 · 9.0

The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967 · 9.0

Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
1972 · 9.0

Futari dake no toride
1963 · 9.0

Tange Sazen
1963 · 9.0

Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
1970 · 9.0

The Sound of the Waves
1985 · 9.0

Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
1994 · 9.0

Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
1963 · 9.0

Hawk of the Harbour
1967 · 9.0

Heaven Station
1984 · 8.8

Harakiri
1962 · 8.5

The Gambler's Counterattack
1971 · 8.5
The Vassal's Neck
1955 · 8.5

Yoshitsune
2005 · 8.3

Toshiie and Matsu
2002 · 8.3

Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
1962 · 8.2

1750 Days of Turbulence
1990 · 8.2

Gokenin Zankuro
1995 · 8.0

Sanada Taiheiki
1985 · 8.0

The Great White Tower
1990 · 8.0

Human Revolution II
1976 · 8.0

Quick on the Trigger
1958 · 8.0

The Armed Organization
1971 · 8.0

Flames of Blood
1981 · 8.0

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
1957 · 8.0

Yakuza Ladies 3
1989 · 8.0

Mist and Shadows
1961 · 8.0

Continental Drifter
1966 · 8.0

Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
1967 · 8.0
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
1983 · 8.0

Twilight Saloon
1955 · 8.0

The Stupid Teacher
2000 · 8.0

The Alaska Story
1977 · 8.0

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
1959 · 8.0

Monument to Holy Service
1978 · 8.0

Murderer!
1976 · 8.0

Lone Rebel
1969 · 8.0

Greed in Broad Daylight
1961 · 8.0

The Yellow Climate
1961 · 8.0

The Twilight Samurai
2002 · 7.8

The Battle of Okinawa
1971 · 7.8

A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000 · 7.8

Kwaidan
1965 · 7.7

Gambler's Farewell
1968 · 7.7

Battle Anthem
1983 · 7.7

To Trap a Kidnapper
1982 · 7.7

Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
1972 · 7.7

Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976 · 7.7

A Wicked Woman
1958 · 7.7

The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968 · 7.7

Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972 · 7.6

Revenge
1964 · 7.6

13 Assassins
1963 · 7.5

Jakoman and Tetsu
1964 · 7.5

Gang vs. G-Men
1962 · 7.5

Hell's Kitchen
1962 · 7.5

You're My Destiny
1987 · 7.5

The Thousand Year Fire
2004 · 7.5

Daredevil in the Castle
1961 · 7.5

Organized Violence II
1967 · 7.5

The Private Police
1969 · 7.5

The Kii River
1966 · 7.5

The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965 · 7.5

Yakuza Warfare
1991 · 7.5

Portrait of Chieko
1967 · 7.5

Queen of Asia
1957 · 7.5

Three Outlaw Samurai
1964 · 7.5

Goyokin
1969 · 7.5

Port Arthur
1980 · 7.4

The Wolves
1971 · 7.4

Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
1970 · 7.4

The Challenge
1962 · 7.4

The Castle of Sand
1974 · 7.3

Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989 · 7.3

Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973 · 7.3

Dead Angle
1979 · 7.3

Gang vs. Gang
1962 · 7.3

The Ghost of Kasane
1957 · 7.3

Free and Easy 13
2002 · 7.3

Silence
1971 · 7.2

The Incident
1978 · 7.2

August Without Emperor
1978 · 7.2

T.R.Y.
2003 · 7.2

Abashiri Prison
1965 · 7.2

Shadow Hunters
1972 · 7.2

Karafuto 1945 Summer
1974 · 7.2

Pigs and Battleships
1961 · 7.2

The Cat Returns
2002 · 7.1

Assassination
1964 · 7.1

Samurai from Nowhere
1964 · 7.1

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970 · 7.1

Key Hunter
1968 · 7.0

Shogun's Samurai: The Yagyu Clan Conspiracy
1978 · 7.0

All Men Are Brothers
1975 · 7.0

All Rascals
1962 · 7.0

Conflagration
1975 · 7.0

Suspicion
1982 · 7.0

Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
1966 · 7.0

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973 · 7.0

13 Assassins
1990 · 7.0

Sky Scraper!
1969 · 7.0

Nichiren
1979 · 7.0

Japan's Top Gangster
1973 · 7.0

Company Buggers
1975 · 7.0

Get 'em All
1960 · 7.0

The Human Revolution
1973 · 7.0

Army Intelligence
1968 · 7.0

Dissolution Rites
1967 · 7.0

Tokyo Untouchable
1965 · 7.0

Between Women and Wives
1976 · 7.0

日本敗れず
1954 · 7.0

Be-In Bully High School
1990 · 7.0

Red Flowers of Hell
1961 · 7.0

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
1989 · 7.0

Structure of Hate
1961 · 7.0

The Shogun's Vault
1964 · 7.0

The Code of Man
1968 · 7.0

Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
1962 · 7.0

Submersion of Japan
1973 · 7.0

The Bullet Train
1975 · 6.9

Tokyo Pop
1988 · 6.9

The Happiness of the Katakuris
2002 · 6.9

The Water Margin
1972 · 6.9

Shogun's Shadow
1989 · 6.9

The Gambling Samurai
1960 · 6.9

Black Lizard
1968 · 6.9

Bridge to the Sun
1961 · 6.9

Marco Polo
1982 · 6.8

Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991 · 6.8

Violent Streets
1974 · 6.8

The Fall of Ako Castle
1978 · 6.8

Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970 · 6.8

The Great Shogunate Battle
1991 · 6.8

Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966 · 6.8

Gozu
2003 · 6.8

Blood of Revenge
1965 · 6.7

Wild Cop 2
1973 · 6.7

The 5-Man Army
1969 · 6.7

Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
2002 · 6.6

Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
1973 · 6.6

The Imperial Navy
1981 · 6.6

Mount Hakkoda
1977 · 6.6

Blackmail Is My Life
1968 · 6.6

Demon Pond
2005 · 6.6

You Only Live Twice
1967 · 6.6

Rise and Fall of Chivalry
1970 · 6.5

The Supernormal II
1993 · 6.5

Female Slave Ship
1960 · 6.5

The 7th Dawn
1964 · 6.5

Samurai from Somewhere
1964 · 6.5

Organized Violence
1967 · 6.5

The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973 · 6.5

Crayon Shinchan the Movie: Burst! Hot Spring Battle
1999 · 6.4

Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
1974 · 6.4

Never Give Up
1978 · 6.4

Samurai Spy
1965 · 6.4

A Taxing Woman's Return
1988 · 6.4

G-Men in the Pacific
1962 · 6.3

Hunter in the Dark
1979 · 6.3

Graveyard of Honor
2002 · 6.3

Call from Darkness
1981 · 6.3

Tokyo: The Last War
1989 · 6.3

The Wild Daisy
1981 · 6.3

The Classroom of Terror
1976 · 6.3

The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991 · 6.3

Shogun's Ninja
1980 · 6.2

Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
2000 · 6.2

Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1982 · 6.2

Jubaku: Spellbound
1999 · 6.2

Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987 · 6.2

Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
1969 · 6.2

Tokyo Blackout
1987 · 6.2

Seven Nights in Japan
1976 · 6.2

Yakuza Demon
2003 · 6.2

The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
1956 · 6.2

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978 · 6.1

Zero
1984 · 6.1

A Flame at the Pier
1962 · 6.1

Masked Blade
1983 · 6.0

Giant Rumble
1964 · 6.0

The Story of a Man Among Men
1984 · 6.0

Snake Woman's Curse
1968 · 6.0

Four Sisters
1962 · 6.0

Thirst for Love
1966 · 6.0

The Making Of The Katakuris
2001 · 6.0

There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
1987 · 6.0

Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
1966 · 6.0

Troops of Darkness
1971 · 6.0

Message from Space
1978 · 5.9

Heat Wave
1991 · 5.9

King of Pornography
1971 · 5.9

Samurai Reincarnation
1981 · 5.8

Shinran: Path to Purity
1987 · 5.8

The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
1974 · 5.8

The Ginger Tree
1989 · 5.7

Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974 · 5.7

The International Gang of Kobe
1975 · 5.7

The Last True Yakuza
1985 · 5.7

Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963 · 5.7

The Geisha
1983 · 5.6

Fireflies in the North
1984 · 5.6

Zero Pilot
1976 · 5.6

The Imperial Japanese Empire
1982 · 5.5

The Shogun Assassins
1979 · 5.5

Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980 · 5.5

The Bushido Blade
1981 · 5.3

Under Aurora
1990 · 5.2

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
1956 · 5.0

The Peking Man
1997 · 5.0

Game of Chance 3
1967 · 5.0
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1991 · 5.0

An Outlaw
1964 · 5.0

Quarreling with Yakuza
1973 · 5.0

Screwed
1998 · 4.9

Female Neo-Ninjas
1991 · 4.9

Cabaret
1986 · 4.8

The Corporation
1976 · 4.8

April Fish
1986 · 4.8

Love: Starting on a Journey
1985 · 4.7

Japanese Hell
1999 · 4.7

Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
2001 · 3.8

Night Train
1987 · 3.7

Tale of Ninja Duty
1965 · 1.0

G-Men '75
1975 · 0.0

Hashiran ka!
1995 · 0.0

HOTEL
1990 · 0.0

Ōgon no Hibi
1978 · 0.0

Inochi
1986 · 0.0

Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
1982 · 0.0

水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵
1984 · 0.0

Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches
1986 · 0.0

Life of St. Blue Eyes
1984 · 0.0
Yumemiru Budo
2003 · 0.0

The Tale of Genji
1991 · 0.0

新幹線物語'93夏
1993 · 0.0
Kaseifu wa mita!
1997 · 0.0

Byakkotai
1986 · 0.0

Teruo Ishii Fan Club
2006 · 0.0
Coming Home
1994 · 0.0

The Bad Boss
1968 · 0.0

The Brave Man Says Little
1983 · 0.0

Eyeful Daisakusen
1973 · 0.0

Thirteen Times a Loser
1969 · 0.0

I Saw a Monster Fish
1981 · 0.0
Underwater Murder
1958 · 0.0

Kim's War
1991 · 0.0

The Gambler
1965 · 0.0

Hanshichi Torimonochō
1992 · 0.0

Destroyer Yukikaze
1964 · 0.0

Bloody History of Soldiers
1958 · 0.0

Tabaruzaka
1987 · 0.0

Big Bad Wolf
1973 · 0.0

The Sand Boat
1980 · 0.0

Ninja Killers
1964 · 0.0

Informal Dress
1972 · 0.0

A Madcap Corporation
1983 · 0.0

Hot Vacation
1968 · 0.0

Blood and Law
1965 · 0.0

Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
1984 · 0.0

Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spiritual World 3: Amazing Reincarnation Story That Ran Around the Whole
1994 · 0.0
Order Made ~Shiawase Iro no Shinshi Fuku Mise~
2004 · 0.0

South Pacific Waves Are High
1962 · 0.0

A Picture of Madame Yuki
1975 · 0.0

The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981 · 0.0

The School Deviate Waru
1973 · 0.0

Homicide
1964 · 0.0
A Case of Murder by the Atami Station Taxi Stand
2003 · 0.0

Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972 · 0.0

Hanamazu
1955 · 0.0

Zankokuna tsuki
1962 · 0.0

Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
1984 · 0.0

Shura Group
2002 · 0.0

Fujisawa Shuhei's Sparkling Sword: Puppeteer in the Shadows
1997 · 0.0

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
1958 · 0.0

Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
1967 · 0.0

Hibari's Triple Role: The Dazzling Transformation of Yukinojo
1957 · 0.0

Emperor of Upheaval
1993 · 0.0

Hanran
1954 · 0.0

The Tale of Saikaido
1983 · 0.0

Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
1956 · 0.0

Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
2004 · 0.0

Taira no Kiyomori
1992 · 0.0
Shura Group Part 1
2002 · 0.0

Tidal Wave
1975 · 0.0

Underworld Code
1965 · 0.0

Umineko ga tonde
1962 · 0.0

The Duel in the Forbidden Territory
1983 · 0.0

Shura Group Part 2
2002 · 0.0

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
1982 · 0.0

Penitentiary Brothers
1969 · 0.0

L・O・V・I・N・G
1983 · 0.0

Element of Surprise
1963 · 0.0

Escape Man
1967 · 0.0

Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
1984 · 0.0

The Way to The Gold Medals
1980 · 0.0

Be Free!
1986 · 0.0

Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
1954 · 0.0

Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
1988 · 0.0

Lady Vengeance and the 47 Ronin
1983 · 0.0

Ano hito wa ima
1963 · 0.0
Black and Red Flower Petals
1962 · 0.0

Detective
1964 · 0.0

The Prosecutor and His Sister
1956 · 0.0

High-Ranking Yakuza
1965 · 0.0

Showdown on Pier No.3
1960 · 0.0

Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I was surprised when I died!!
1990 · 0.0

剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
1957 · 0.0

Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Braves
1957 · 0.0
Nude Woman and Murder Maze
1959 · 0.0

Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams
2001 · 0.0

Ronin on a Mission
1987 · 0.0

長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る
1989 · 0.0
No Police
1959 · 0.0

Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961 · 0.0

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
1957 · 0.0

やくざ番外地 抹殺
1969 · 0.0

Tokyo Untouchables
1964 · 0.0

Vendetta of Obligation
1985 · 0.0

Kingorō no kaigun taishô
1959 · 0.0
Speed King
1956 · 0.0
The Fencing Collegian
1956 · 0.0

Hibari's Triple Role: The Transformation of Yukinojo — Part II
1957 · 0.0

Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
1963 · 0.0

機動捜査班
1961 · 0.0
President Rai of Kingoro
1956 · 0.0

Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko
1956 · 0.0
Kingoro's Soldier
1956 · 0.0

源氏九郎颯爽記 秘剣揚羽の蝶
1991 · 0.0

Zero sen no jorō gun
1960 · 0.0

修羅のみち
2001 · 0.0
Kyōen Kobanzame
1958 · 0.0