Shinji Tanaka
Acting
Known For

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.
The Naked Island

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.
You Were Like a Wild Chrysanthemum

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.
Cruel Story of Youth

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge over the Fuefuki river, decides to serve a warlord to escape his miserable condition, being soon followed by his younger brothers. Although not all the men of the family take this tragic path of death, women of the family will be doomed to endure the pain of loss during the next five generations.
The River Fuefuki

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing demeanor and constant demands for money lead Yoshie down a dark path.
The Shape of Night

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous friends.
Spring Dreams

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.
Love New and Old

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his relentless pressure in the mortal danger of mountain climbing.
Glory on the Summit

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand boy for a shipping company and vents his frustrations by plucking on the guitar.
A Flame at the Pier

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved younger sister is given to a wealthy, childless uncle; his best friend moves away; the girl he fell in love with from afar is with someone else: little by little, Yoichi loses all the people that are important to him.
Farewell to Dream

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out their house during the summer to pay off their mortgage, and there she meets a lonely old man...
Thus Another Day

A reckless student contemplates terrorism in a prescient film that confirmed Shinoda as a fearless member of Shochiku's iconoclastic New Wave. At the height of student protests, Shimojo takes his aggressions to another level, beset by seemingly insoluble feelings of alienation.
Youth in Fury

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.
Sing, Young People!

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.
The Sunshine Girl

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Futari dake no toride

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.
Our Marriage

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...
Portrait of Chieko

Japanese drama film.
Seikurabe

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.
Danger Stalks Near

1961 Japanese movie