Acting

Jiro Tamiya

Born August 25, 1935 · Osaka, Japan

Died December 28, 1978 · aged 43

Jiro Tamiya was a Japanese actor, known for his performances in Black Test Car, The Great White Tower, and Miyamoto Musashi. He was married to Yukiko Fuji.

Known For

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree · 1959

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...

Theater of Life

Theater of Life · 1972

Theater of Life

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.

The Family

The Family · 1974

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog · 1973

MovieCrimeAction

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

The Great White Tower

The Great White Tower · 1966

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

The Precipice

The Precipice · 1958

MovieDramaMystery

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.

Superexpress

Superexpress · 1964

MovieDramaCrime

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express

A Man Worth the Money

A Man Worth the Money · 1966

A Man Worth the Money

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Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree · 1959

Roses Bloom on a Rose Tree

Yano Reiko is a part-time student. After being introduced by a well-known classmate, she becomes the tutor for Mariko, the second daughter of the bourgeois Todo family. The eldest daughter of the Todo family, Tomoe, is a typical bourgeois lady who secretly loves Fuyuhiko Kanae, an architectural engineer who is designing her villa. For Reiko, the life of the Todo family is completely different, but when she meets the bright and intelligent Fuyuhiko, she feels more than just affection for him, going beyond Reiko's circumstances. Meanwhile, Fuyuhiko also begins to love the neat and beautiful Reiko. The relationship between the two develops rapidly, but Reiko's heart is complicated. This is because Reiko has an older sister, Ginko, who works in a red-light district...

Theater of Life

Theater of Life · 1972

Theater of Life

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and Tobigashikaku.

The Family

The Family · 1974

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

Ataru Mima

Yellow Dog

Yellow Dog · 1973

MovieCrimeAction

A Japanese cop is sent to join the London police force on a secret investigation.

Kimura

The Great White Tower

The Great White Tower · 1966

The Great White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

Gorō Zaizen

The Precipice

The Precipice · 1958

MovieDramaMystery

Kosaka drops to death while ice climbing with his friend Uozu to see the sunrise on the New Year’s Day. The investigators try to find the cause of the death, then discover that the cut rope was made in the factory for which Uozu’s brother works.

Superexpress

Superexpress · 1964

MovieDramaCrime

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built directly across the land just acquired. Also known as Black Super Express

Keiichi Kikyo

A Man Worth the Money

A Man Worth the Money · 1966

A Man Worth the Money

Giants and Toys

Giants and Toys · 1958

Giants and Toys

MovieComedyDrama

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

Student (uncredited)

A Woman's Testament

A Woman's Testament · 1960

A Woman's Testament

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.

Chase That Man

Chase That Man · 1972

MovieCrimeAction

The story of the desperate struggle between the police and a large crime syndicate.

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor · 1963

Bad Reputation: The Notorious Harbor

Seiji

The Blue Sky Maiden

The Blue Sky Maiden · 1957

The Blue Sky Maiden

MovieDramaComedy

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

Takenaka

The Crowded Train

The Crowded Train · 1957

The Crowded Train

MovieComedyDrama

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

Student

Miyamoto Musashi

Miyamoto Musashi · 1973

Miyamoto Musashi

MovieDramaAction

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then beginning his long period of wandering & training, with the goal always in mind of his duel with Kojiro. Part II builds toward that great duel on Ganryu Island, with considerable focus on Musashi's planning & forethought as to how to gain an advantage.

Kojiro Sasaki

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations · 1969

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

MovieDramaHistory

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Hitoshi Fujii

300 Million Yen Mission

300 Million Yen Mission · 1971

300 Million Yen Mission

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly · 1957

The Invisible Man vs. The Human Fly

MovieScience FictionCrime

Police investigate a series of mysterious murders where the only clue is a strange buzzing noise at the scene of the crime.

Plane Passenger (uncredited)

Main Line to Terror

Main Line to Terror · 1975

Main Line to Terror

MovieDramaThriller

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan National Railway, that, if nothing is done to reduce the noise, he will derail a bullet train. Takigawa is the police detective sent to stop him.

Takigawa

A Night to Remember

A Night to Remember · 1962

A Night to Remember

MovieDramaRomance

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on.

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo · 1963

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo

The Third Will

The Third Will · 1963

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old father.

The Corporation

The Corporation · 1976

The Corporation

MovieDramaThriller

Tadashi Iki returns to Japan from a Soviet gulag 11 years after being captured during the invasion of Manchuria. He is offered a position in the expansive Kinki Corporation, but rival corporations are competing for a government contract to produce fighter planes.

Tatsuzo Samejima, Head of the Aircraft Division

Showdown at Night's End

Showdown at Night's End · 1964

Showdown at Night's End

MovieActionCrime

Set against the backdrop of a port city, this action-packed story follows a man who makes a living selling daily necessities to foreign ships entering the harbor. When he believes he’s been set up, he finds himself caught in a trap and forced to become an accomplice to smuggling.

Kusumi

Hawaii Five-O

Hawaii Five-O · 1969

SeriesAction & AdventureDrama

Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".

Goro Shibata

The White Tower

The White Tower · 1978

The White Tower

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The brilliant and ambitious surgeon Goro Zaizen stops at nothing to rise to a position of eminence and authority, while the friendly Shuji Satomi busies himself with his patients and research.

Producer

White Runway

White Runway · 1974

Sugiyama was undergoing training in Moses Lake, USA, for the Boeing 747 model transition training. After passing the exam and returning to Japan, he found that his wife Ayako had disappeared...

Shigeo Sugiyama

Welcome to the High Plains

Welcome to the High Plains · 1976

Welcome to the High Plains

As a former manager of a top hotel, Seiji has been entrusted with the reopening of a hotel in the high plains that has been boarded up and closed for years. With a budget of 20 million, he begins to hire interesting characters to work there and rebuild the hotel. However, his attempts to get a top chef to draw customers fail. The staff members begin to worry about the hotel's future and try to leave, but at precisely that moment, an elderly man who used to be a chef at a top hotel pays a visit. Will this mean success for Seiji or just add to his troubles?

The White Horizon

The White Horizon · 1975

The White Horizon

The series portrays veteran boxing world champion Ryuzo Nakane, played by Tamiya, as he fails to defend his title for the sixth time and falls from his glory after a scandal with famous singer Noriko Hanabusa, as well as his anguish and fighting instincts, and his involvement in the kidnapping of his son Takeshi, all the while pursuing family, love between parents and children, and love between men and women.

Ryuzo Nakane

White Wilderness

White Wilderness · 1977

White Wilderness

The fifth installment of Tamiya Jiro's "White Series." Tamiya Jiro plays the editor-in-chief of a top weekly magazine, portraying the melancholy of a man living in a chaotic society.

White Secret

White Secret · 1976

Munekata Yuko remembered the face of Mimura Kyosuke, a doctor who killed her mother by mistake in the course of an operation. Five years later, Yuko lost her eyesight due to craniopharyngioma. One day, Yuko has an accident and she is taken to the hospital. Ironically her doctor is no other than Kyosuke. Unaware of his identity, the woman begins to fall in love with him. And although Kyosuke reciprocates her affection, he has a strong dilemma, because he knows very well whose daughter Yuko is. Will their feelings survive?

Kyosuke Mimura

Frost-Covered Trees

Frost-Covered Trees · 1974

Frost-Covered Trees

Hikarugake

Hikarugake · 1977

SeriesCrimeMystery

The drama depicts the fateful meeting and falling in love between a man living in the glamorous world of the fashion business and a woman living in the social reality of law and order.

White Shadow

White Shadow · 1973

Noriko Shimura is on duty for the first time at Gyoda Hospital. The duty doctor is Yosuke Naoe. After 9PM Jiro Toda, a childhood friend of Noriko's, is brought in with a cut to his forehead from a fight. But Naoe has gone out for a drink, and can't be found. Both Toda and the ambulance crew become angry and demand to know where the doctor is. Naoe returns and seeing the commotion, he orders Toda be locked in a toilet until he calms down. Noriko is horrified by Naoe's attitude but is later impressed with his ability as a surgeon when treating Toda' s injury. This is their first fateful meeting...