Tetsuro Tamba
Known for: Acting
Born: July 17, 1922
Died: September 24, 2006
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. Before embarking on his acting career, Tamba worked as an interpreter for the Allied Powers' Supreme Commander. Graduating from Chuo University in 1948, he later joined Shintoho c…
Known for
Operation Diamond
1962
The Castle of Sand
1974
Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World 2: I was surprised when I died!!
1990
Tetsuro Tamba’s Great Spiritual World 3: Amazing Reincarnation Story That Ran Around the Whole
1994
Three Outlaw Samurai
1964
Assassination
1964
Bohachi Bushido: Code of the Forgotten Eight
1973
The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
1982
Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Zankokuna tsuki
1962
Detective
1964
The Return of the Filthy Seven
1967
The Duel in the Forbidden Territory
1983
Element of Surprise
1963
The Imperial Japanese Empire
1982
Tange Sazen
1963
Human Revolution II
1976
Conflagration
1975
The Incident
1978
Greed in Broad Daylight
1961
Organized Violence II
1967
Organized Violence
1967
Mist and Shadows
1961
The Sand Boat
1980
Tale of Ninja Duty
1965
The Human Revolution
1973
Secret Prophecies of Nostradamus
1974
Lone Rebel
1969
The Prosecutor and His Sister
1956
やくざ番外地 抹殺
1969
Escape Man
1967
Ninja Killers
1964
King of Pornography
1971
Hawk of the Harbour
1967
The Water Margin
1972
Under the Flag of the Rising Sun
1972
Goyokin
1969
Hibari's Triple Role: The Transformation of Yukinojo — Part II
1957
Hibari's Triple Role: The Dazzling Transformation of Yukinojo
1957
Kizu-darake no futeki-sha
1963
A Picture of Madame Yuki
1975
Greatest Boss of the Showa Era
1966
An Outlaw
1964
Nichiren
1979
Jakoman and Tetsu
1964
Dissolution Rites
1967
Portrait of Chieko
1967
Wild Cop 2
1973
The Yellow Climate
1961
The Armed Organization
1971
Eleven Gangsters
1963
Blood and Law
1965
Informal Dress
1972
Japan's Top Gangster
1973
Abashiri Prison: Duel in Hokkaido
1967
Vendetta of Obligation
1985
Giant Rumble
1964
Game of Chance 3
1967
Gang vs. G-Men: Safe Breakers
1963
The Corporation
1976
Lady Vengeance and the 47 Ronin
1983
High-Ranking Yakuza
1965
Tidal Wave
1975
Big Bad Wolf
1973
Spycatcher J3: SOS Close Shave
1966
Tokyo Gang vs. Hong Kong Gang
1964
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka
2002
Tokyo Untouchable
1965
Zero Woman: Red Handcuffs
1974
Revenge
1964
The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
1970
The Gambler
1965
Sky Scraper!
1969
Red Flowers of Hell
1961
Ronin on a Mission
1987
The Gambling Samurai
1960
The Battle of Okinawa
1971
Samurai from Nowhere
1964
Samurai from Somewhere
1964
The Ceiling at Utsunomiya
1956
High Seas Hijack
1977
Gambler's Farewell
1968
The International Gang of Kobe
1975
A Wicked Woman
1958
Four Sisters
1962
Gang vs. G-Men
1962
Postwar Secrets
1970
The Supernormal II
1993
Troops of Darkness
1971
Hell's Kitchen
1962
Zero sen no jorō gun
1960
The Last Days of Planet Earth
1981
機動捜査班
1961
You Only Live Twice
1967
Minamoto Yoshitsune
1991
Pigs and Battleships
1961
The 7th Dawn
1964
Shadow Hunters 2: Echo of Destiny
1972
Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition
1956
Submersion of Japan
1973
Mount Hakkoda
1977
Bridge to the Sun
1961
Ino Tadataka: Meridian Dreams
2001
Tokyo Untouchable: Escape
1963
The Code of Man
1968
Onimasa: A Japanese Godfather
1982
Zero
1984
Harakiri
1962
Tokyo Pop
1988
Jubaku: Spellbound
1999
The Shogun's Vault
1964
Queen of Asia
1957
The Ghost of Kasane
1957
13 Assassins
1963
Get 'em All
1960
The Gambler's Counterattack
1971
The Domain: Kanto Legends of Chivalry
1965
The Hitman: Blood Smells Like Roses
1991
Ano hito wa ima
1963
修羅のみち
2001
The 5-Man Army
1969
The Political Game
1989
Shadow Hunters
1972
Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron
1978
Shōwa Gokudōshi
1972
A Taxing Woman's Return
1988
Shogun's Shadow
1989
Flickering Flames
1977
The Challenge
1962
Sazen Tange and The Secret of the Urn
1966
Red Peony Gambler: Biographies of a Gambling Room
1969
The Thousand Year Fire
2004
Female Slave Ship
1960
Be-In Bully High School
1990
Teruo Ishii Fan Club
2006
Tokyo Untouchables
1964
源氏九郎颯爽記 秘剣揚羽の蝶
1991
Thirteen Times a Loser
1969
South Pacific Waves Are High
1962
The Happiness of the Katakuris
2002
Samurai Spy
1965
The School Deviate Waru
1973
Umineko ga tonde
1962
Ankoku gai jingi
1965
Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko
1956
Shura Group
2002
Nude Woman and Murder Maze
1959
Kyōen Kobanzame
1958
Kingoro's Soldier
1956
Thirst for Love
1966
Tales of Young Genji Kuro 3
1962
The Shogun Assassins
1979
The Kii River
1966
Operation Plazma in Osaka
1976
Murderer!
1976
Love: Starting on a Journey
1985
Message from Space
1978
The Stupid Teacher
2000
The Great Shogunate Battle
1991
Diamonds of the Andes
1968
Bloody History of Soldiers
1958
13 Assassins
1990
The Sound of the Waves
1985
Japanese Hell
1999
Samon’s Hell Revenge: Unauthorised Jutte Records 2 - The Assassination of the Shogun
1983
The Tale of Saikaido
1983
Crimson Bat - Oichi: Wanted, Dead or Alive
1970
Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
1957
Blind Beast vs Killer Dwarf
2001
Flames of Blood
1981
King of the Gang
1967
The Geisha
1983
The Making Of The Katakuris
2001
Kill the Killer!
1961
Showdown on Pier No.3
1960
Tokugawa Ieyasu – TBS Warlord Special
1988
Abashiri Prison
1965
Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War
1958
Taira no Kiyomori
1992
Tokyo: The Last War
1989
Demon Pond
2005
長七郎江戸日記スペシャル 長七郎 大奥まかり通る
1989
Futari dake no toride
1963
Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky
1991
Standing Towards the Great Forest
1961
Kim's War
1991
Monument to Holy Service
1978
剣聖 暁の三十六番斬り
1957
Tokyo Blackout
1987
The Alaska Story
1977
Kukai
1984
Shogun's Ninja
1980
Quick on the Trigger
1958
Yakuza Skirmishes
1972
Crayon Shin-chan: Explosion! The Hot Spring's Feel Good Final Battle
1999
Heaven Station
1984
The Vassal's Neck
1955
Violent Streets
1974
Gamblers: The Dragon Tattoo
1967
Silence
1971
Homicide
1964
Hanran
1954
Seven Nights in Japan
1976
The Way to The Gold Medals
1980
Hanamazu
1955
Yakuza Demon
2003
Storming Osaka Castle: The Sanada Ten Braves
1957
日本敗れず
1954
The Cat Returns
2002
Hunter in the Dark
1979
Twilight Saloon
1955
Aurora Borealis
1990
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: The Complete Saga
1980
Sakuya: The Slayer of Demons
2000
Daredevil in the Castle
1961
Mysterious Dwarf
1955
Rise and Fall of Chivalry
1970
1750 Days of Turbulence
1990
Yakuza Warfare
1991
Screwed
1998
Heat Wave
1991
The Classroom of Terror
1976
The Twilight Samurai
2002
Kōgen ni ressha ga hashitta
1984
Uragirimono wa jigoku daze
1962
No Police
1959
Kuro to aka no hanabira
1962
President Rai of Kingoro
1956
A Class to Remember IV: Fifteen
2000
Gang vs. Gang
1962
Call from Darkness
1981
Twilight of the Cockroaches
1987
Once and For All
1967
New Abashiri Prison Story: Honor and Humanity, Ammunition That Attracts the Storm
1972
Drive for the Future
1980
The Peking Man
1997
Continental Drifter
1966
Shura Group Part 2
2002
You're My Destiny
1987
Female Neo-Ninjas
1991
Company Buggers
1975
Structure of Hate
1961
Between Women and Wives
1976
Shura Group Part 1
2002
Never Give Up
1978
April Fish
1986
Night Train
1987
Blood of Revenge
1965
L・O・V・I・N・G
1983
The Sacrifice of the Human Torpedoes
1955
Organized Crime: Killer's Glory
1972
The Bushido Blade
1981
Karafuto 1945 Summer
1974
T.R.Y.
2003
Tetsuro Tamba's Great Spirit World: What Happens When You Die
1989
Zero Fighter
1976
A Flame at the Pier
1962
Army Intelligence
1968
The Wild Daisy
1981
Battles Without Honor and Humanity: Proxy War
1973
Graveyard of Honor
2002
Kingorō no kaigun taishô
1959
Yakuza Ladies 3
1989
The Bullet Train
1975
Cabaret
1986
Emperor of Upheaval
1993
Psychic: Traveler to the Unknown
1994
Speed King
1956
Penitentiary Brothers
1969
Shogun's Samurai
1978
Gozu
2003
The Bad Boss
1968
There Goes Benio, the Smart Girl
1987
All Men Are Brothers
1975
Quarreling with Yakuza
1973
A Case of Murder by the Atami Station Taxi Stand
2003
The Story of a Man Among Men
1984
Capone: Roppongi Renkin no Teio
2004
Be Free!
1986
August Without Emperor
1978
Choshichiro's Edo Diaries: The Yagyu Conspiracy
1984
Samurai Reincarnation
1981
Snake Woman's Curse
1968
Kwaidan
1965
The Wolves
1971
Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
1970
Shinran: Path to Purity
1987
Nezumi Kozō kaitō den
1984
Underwater Murder
1958
The Last True Yakuza
1985
The Imperial Navy
1981
Destroyer Yukikaze
1964
Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced
1954
Gang Loyalty and Vengeance
1963
The Executioner II: Karate Inferno
1974
The Kingdom of Jirocho 3
1964
All Rascals
1962
To Trap a Kidnapper
1982
Men and War I: Prelude to Destiny
1970
The Fencing Collegian
1956
Kaachan
1961
Sugata Sanshiro
1977
Battle Anthem
1983
The Young Eagles of the Kamikaze
1968
Fireflies in the North
1984
Gamblers and Racketeers
1964
The Fall of Ako Castle
1978
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
1959
Blackmail Is My Life
1968
Four Days of Snow and Blood
1989
Suspicion
1982
Black Lizard
1968
A Madcap Corporation
1983
G-Men in the Pacific
1962
The Private Police
1969
Japan's Violent Gangs: The Boss and the Killers
1969
The Ando Gang Documentary Film
1973
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
1956
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
1957
Dead Angle
1979
Battles Without Honor and Humanity
1973
Port Arthur
1980
Ōgon no Hibi
1978
Kaseifu wa mita!
1997
Order Made ~Shiawase Iro no Shinshi Fuku Mise~
2004
Yoshitsune
2005
Yumemiru Budo
2003
Yonimo Kimyou na Monogatari Tokubetsuhen
1990
Matsudaira Ukon Jikencho
1982
HOTEL
1990
Toshiie and Matsu
2002
Tokugawa Chronicles: Ambition of the 3 Branches
1986
水曜ドラマ 宮本武蔵
1984
Gokenin Zankuro
1995
Hanshichi Torimonochō
1992
Hashiran ka!
1995
Coming Home
1994
Sanada Taiheiki
1985
新幹線物語'93夏
1993
Marco Polo
1982
Inochi
1986
Byakkotai
1986
The Veteran Trio
1999
Life of St. Blue Eyes
1984
Masked Blade
1983
Key Hunter
1968
The Tale of Genji
1991
Tabaruzaka
1987
G-Men '75
1975
The Brave Man Says Little
1983
The Ginger Tree
1989