Best movies of Tatsuya Nakadai

Actors : Daisuke Ryû, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu, Tatsuya Nakadai,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Jinpachi Nezu, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken'ichi Hagiwara,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûnosuke Itô, Toshirô Mifune, Keiju Kobayashi,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty samurai helps a young man and his fellow clansmen save his uncle, who has been framed and imprisoned by a corrupt superintendent.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Eijirô Tôno, Toshirô Mifune, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Katsuyuki Itô, Shigako Shimegi, Aiko Nagayama,
Directors : Eiichi Yamamoto,

After being banished from her village, a peasant woman makes a pact with the devil to gain magical ability.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Akira Ishihama, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

An elder ronin samurai arrives at a feudal lord's home and requests an honorable place to commit suicide. But when the ronin inquires about a younger samurai who arrived before him things take an unexpected turn.

Actors : Kyôko Kagawa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Yutaka Sada, Toshirô Mifune,
Directors : Akira Kurosawa,

An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yôko Naitô, Michiyo Aratama, Yûzô Kayama,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Through his unconscionable actions against others, a sociopath samurai builds a trail of vendettas that follow him closely.

Actors : Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori,
Directors : Mikio Naruse,

A middle-aged bar hostess, constantly in debt, is faced with numerous social constraints and challenges posed to her by her family, customers and friends.

Actors : Miki Irie, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyôko Kishida, Mikijirô Hira,
Directors : Hiroshi Teshigahara,

A businessman with a disfigured face obtains a lifelike mask from his doctor, but the mask starts altering his personality.

Actors : Tamao Nakamura, Tatsuya Nakadai, Michiyo Aratama, Yûsuke Kawazu,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

His ideals challenged by life as a conscript in war-time Japan's military, a pacifist faces ever greater tests in his fight for survival.

Actors : Kaoru Yachigusa, Tatsuya Nakadai, Toshinori Omi, Toshirô Yanagiba,
Directors : Seijirô Kôyama,

The true story about a dog's loyalty to its master, even after his death.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yuriko Hoshi, Tadao Nakamaru, Etsushi Takahashi,
Directors : Kihachi Okamoto,

Two ronin - an ex-samurai and an ex-farmer - get caught up in a local official's complex game of murder and betrayal.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Ruriko Asaoka, Tetsurô Tanba, Yôko Tsukasa,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûsuke Santamaria, Yukie Nakama, Tatiana Sharko,
Directors : Mizuho Nishikubo,

A dramatic yet heart-warming story of cross-cultural friendship among children in the aftermath of WWII, presented by Tokyo-based award-winning animation studio Production I.G. Based on true events.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yûjirô Ishihara, Shintarô Katsu, Yukio Mishima,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

A destitute ronin allies himself with an established clan, but its ruthless leader tries to turn him into a mindless killer.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Sô Yamamura, Seiji Miyaguchi, Keiko Kishi,
Directors : Masaki Kobayashi,

Two-hundred million yen is up for grabs in a dying businessman's will. The businessman intends to will it to his 3 illegitimate children, but his associates scheme to take advantage of the situation.

Actors : Keiko Matsuzaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Shima Iwashita, Kôshirô Matsumoto,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves. He leads his outlaws in an attempt to rob the castle of his former clan.

Actors : Tatsuya Nakadai, Yoshio Harada, Ayumi Ishida, Tetsurô Tanba,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo, to protect him during an inter-clan ...

Actors : Kunie Tanaka, Tatsuya Nakadai, Hisashi Igawa, Ichirô Nakatani,
Directors : Hideo Gosha,

Fresh out of prison, a broken man reluctantly takes a job to kill three men, but changes his mind when some gangsters target the same men. He then tries to find out why the men are being targeted in the first place.