Tatsuya Mihashi Filmography

Casshern

Actors: Yusuke Iseya, Kumiko Aso, Toshiaki Karasawa, Akira Terao, Kanako Higuchi

Synopsis: A genetic discovery that could prove mankind's saving grace is instead used to create the very beings who threaten their existence in director Kazuaki Kirya's visionary sci-fi epic. The time is the late 21st Century; fifty years of war between Europa and the Eastern Federation have left the planet Read More

Wasurerarenu Hitobito

Actors: Tatsuya Mihashi, Minoru Oki, Tomio Aoki, Saburo Shinoda

Rengo Kantai

Actors: Keiju Kobayashi, Eitaro Ozawa, Tetsuro Tamba

Synopsis: Set during World War II, the inhuman side of combat is again emphasized in this film that deals with navy officers and their decisions concerning the "great fleet" that they must manage. In order to put the human drama of separation and death in full relief, that drama is played against scenes of Read More

Tora! Tora! Tora!

Actors: Martin Balsam, So Yamamura, Joseph Cotten, Tatsuya Mihashi, E.G. Marshall

Synopsis: This 25-million dollar epic collaboration accurately recreates the events that led to the Japanese attack on the American naval base during World War II. With Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, the wheels are set in motion by Japan to plan the attack. After internal differences in Read More

The Human Vapor

Actors: Yoshio Tsuchiya, Kaoru Yachigusa, Tatsuya Mihashi, Keiko Sata

Synopsis: Packaged in the States with director Honda's 1964 feature Gorath, this sci-fi film tells the story of an ex-con who has undergone a substantial change on account of a scientific experiment. He is now able, at will, to transform himself into vapor. When his girlfiend is accused of theft, the Vapor Read More

The Mad Atlantic

Synopsis: In this moral drama, the captain of a Japanese trawler must make a difficult decision. The story begins as the boat returns to port after yet another unsuccessful fishing expedition. The company that he works for is most upset and on his next trip, assigns a company official to supervise their Read More

The Thin Line

Synopsis: In this dark Japanese drama, a young married man accidentally kills his lover during a passionate moment. Compounding matters is the fact that the woman was his best friend's wife. Eventually his conscience forces him to confess, but before he can, his own wife, worried about saving face in their Read More

Kojiro

Actors: Kikunosuke Onoe, Yuriko Hoshi, Yoko Tsukasa, Yoshio Tsuchiya

Synopsis: Also known as Sasaki Kojiro, this sprawling Samurai epic stars Kikunosuke Onoe as a humble peasant youth. The Japanese feudal system being what it is (or was during the time in which this film is set), Onoe evidently hasn't much of a chance of becoming a samurai warrior. But he does, and Read More

Outpost of Hell

Actors: Tatsuya Mihashi, Makoto Sato, Yosuke Natsuki, Hiroshi Tachikawa

Synopsis: Five Japanese soldiers wait for the immanent attack from Soviet forces on the Manchurian border in 1945 in this war drama. The soldiers are asked to surrender, but they choose to fight to the death, and the five all suffer gruesome deaths, illustrating the horrors of war. One victim becomes a Read More

What's Up, Tiger Lily?

Actors: Woody Allen, Tatsuya Mihashi, Mie Hama, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tadao Nakamaru

Synopsis: Woody Allen took a Japanese spy movie called Kagi No Kagi, and replaced its original dialogue with an entirely new plot. In its revised state, this film follows the adventures of agent Phil Moskowitz who is on a deadly mission to secure the recipe for the "world's greatest egg salad." However Read More

Kiganjo no Boken

Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Mie Hama, Tadao Nakamaru, Yumi Shirakawa, Tatsuya Mihashi

Synopsis: Toshiro Mifune stars as a shipwrecked sailor who joins a Japanese priest in his search for the bones of Buddha in this children's adventure. The duo are hounded by the forces of a nearby king from his castle fortress. The heroes show the king the error of his ways and even provide him with a Read More

Interpol Code 8

Tiger Flight

Synopsis: The original Japanese title of Tiger Flight was Kyomo Ware Ozorani Re. The plot is essentially a made-in-Japan knockoff of the British classic Breaking the Sound Barrier. The heroes are a group of pilots who want to go faster than anyone has gone before. But no so fast as to miss out on romance Read More

None But the Brave

Actors: Frank Sinatra, Clint Walker, Tommy Sands, Brad Dexter, Tony Bill

Synopsis: Frank Sinatra took over the directors' chair for the first (and only) time in this unusual WWII drama. Lt. Kuroki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is the leader of a Japanese platoon stranded on a remote Pacific island, where with an iron hand he oversees the construction of a rescue ship. An American plane Read More

The Weed of Crime

Synopsis: In this drama, a Japanese detective begins investigating a powerful ring of drug smugglers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Kagi No Kagi

The Legacy of the 500,000

Synopsis: In this Japanese adventure, a man is kidnapped by the wealthy president of a wartime trading company. He is taken because he is the only one who knows the location of 10,000 gold coins that the Japanese army left in the Philippines during WW II. His captors take him to a boat helmed by the Read More

Snow in the South Seas

Synopsis: In this Japanese war drama, a regiment stationed in New Guinea begins to get depressed. To boost their flagging morale, a writer and actor is assigned to put on a play and oversee the building of a theater. During the last act of the play, a metaphorical snow begins to fall. Simultaneously, the Read More

Chushingura

Actors: Koshiro Matsumoto, Yuzo Kayama, Chusha Ichikawa, Toshiro Mifune, Yoko Tsukasa

Synopsis: This sweeping historical epic has sometimes been labelled the Gone with the Wind of Japan; at any rate, it's almost the same length as Gone (the film was originally released in two parts). Chusha Ichikawa plays a powerful and ruthless feudal lord who battles virtuous young noble Yuzo Kayama. Ichikawa Read More

Tatsu

Synopsis: This lively Japanese adventure is set in a construction camp where laborers are paid a pittance and nearly worked to death by cruel guards. The story centers on one fellow who falls in love with a woman working in the mess hall. The woman is also wooed by another worker. In the end, the two rivals Read More

High and Low

Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Kyoko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai

Synopsis: Based on King's Ransom, an "87th Precinct" novel by Ed McBain (aka Evan Hunter), High and Low stars Toshiro Mifune as Gondo, a wealthy industrialist. Gondo is contacted by a gang of kidnappers, who inform him that they've kidnapped his son. The crooks demand a huge ransom for the boy's return Read More

Challenge to Live

Actors: Tatsuya Mihashi, Yoko Tsukasa, Yumi Shirakawa, Masayuki Mori

Synopsis: In this uneven but still challenging drama, director Eizo Sugawa tackles the problem of the effects of killing on the human psyche, even when the killing is condoned as a form of euthanasia. Izaki (Tatsuya Mihashi) is a successful executive who leads an oil company to break the embargo against Read More

The Wayside Pebble

Actors: Setsuko Hara, Tatsuya Mihashi, Kyu Sazanka

Synopsis: The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place is a small Japanese village. Goichi (Hiroyuki Ohta) is suffering because he wants to go to school, but his family is too Read More

The Wiser Age

Synopsis: This Japanese drama chronicles the trials and joys of five young women struggling to live and love in a modern Tokyo suburb. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bad Sleep Well

Actors: Toshiro Mifune

Synopsis: In this engaging drama, acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa deftly splices together the nuances of hypocrisy, old feudal misconceptions lingering in modern corruption, and Shakespeare's Hamlet. The rotten corporate world is taken on by Koichi Nishi (Toshiro Mifune), who is looking for Read More

The Burmese Harp

Actors: Shoji Yasui, Rentaro Mikuni, Tatsuya Mihashi, Tanie Kitabayashi, Yunosuke Ito

Synopsis: Set against the final days of World War II, The Burmese Harp portrays the experiences of a group of exhausted, war-scarred Japanese soldiers as they prepare to return to Japan. The film focuses on Shoji Yasui, a soldier known to his comrades for his harp playing, who fails to convince a resistant Read More

Kokoro

Synopsis: Kon Ichikawa's rich adaptation of Natsume Soseki's classic novel depicts a complex relationship between a student and an older man he calls "sensei." The older man's relations with his wife seems curiously strained to the student. When the boy goes to the country to tend to his dying father, he Read More

Seishun Kaidan