Tatsuo Nadaka
Also Known As: 名高達郎
Biography: Tatsuo Nadaka, born on February 9, 1951, is a multi-talented figure in the Japanese entertainment industry, excelling as an actor, painter, and TV personality. He is associated with Production Ogaki. Hailing from Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City, Nadaka's journey began with academic pursuits, graduating from Kanazawa Institute of Technology with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. Despite familial ties to a metalworking business, Nadaka ventured into the world of modeling, prompted by a chance encounter with a renowned model at Kanazawa Station. The allure of the modeling world, with its lucrative income and exposure, prompted him to take on the name Tatsuro Nadaka and pursue a career in fashion modeling. However, his aspirations extended beyond modeling. Nadaka's path took a pivotal turn when he was scouted for acting. Overcoming initial uncertainties, he embraced the world of acting and transitioned to a full-fledged career. In 1976, he made his mark with the TBS drama "Tokyo Sunday Theater: Kon'yaku Jidai," marking his official entry into the acting scene. Nadaka's notable roles include starring in the Tokyo 12 Channel series "Oyako Deka" (1979), where he gained prominence. Renowned for his robust and distinguished presence, Nadaka solidified his popularity with his portrayal of the lead character in "The Hangman" series, under the name Tatsuro Nadaro. At the recommendation of Yoshihiro Minami, he later adopted the name Tatsuo Nadaka in 1994. His acting range extended to antagonistic roles in recent TV dramas and his appearance in NHK's historical drama "Komyo ga Tsuji," as well as hosting travel and gourmet shows. In 1986, Nadaka made headlines when his engagement to TV personality Kaoru Nishio was called off. Despite the intrigue, the reasons for the cancellation remained undisclosed. He later married a woman 17 years his junior, the niece of actress Yutaka Nakajima, with actor Keiju Kobayashi serving as the matchmaker. They have a son and a daughter. In 2011, Nadaka introduced the men's accessory brand "N Collection," which he produced. The brand was launched on the TV shopping channel QVC. Nadaka's life took a dramatic turn in 2012 when he was involved in a four-car collision caused by a rear-end collision while waiting at a traffic signal. Although he suffered mild whiplash symptoms, he proceeded with his scheduled work engagements. (Source: Wikipedia JA)
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
Birthday: February 09, 1951
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 3
Overview: The third 'Japan Gangster War' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-07-25
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Japan Gangster War Chapter 4
Overview: The fourth 'Japan Gangster War' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2019-05-01
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Dear Asuka and My Unborn Child...
Overview: A doctor who died at a young age due to the metastasis of a malignant tumor to the lungs after cutting his right leg below the knee due to osteosarcoma. The title "Asuka" is the name of the eldest daughter, and "Unseen child" is the child whose wife was pregnant at the time of her death.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-01-16
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Gotoshi Co. Ltd. II
Overview: The second 'Gotoshi' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1994-01-08
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Revenge Investigation Line Hot Sand with Murderous Intent (Deduction)
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-09-21
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Revenge Investigation Line Hot Sands of Murderous Intent (Solution)
Overview: 1990 Original Video.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Drifter Teppei
Overview: Teppei Mihogawa (Susumu Terajima), is a man who plays a "lavabo" with a guitar in the night city. a girl who was attracted by Teppei's song fell in love at first sight with Teppei
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-01-23
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Beyond Outrage
Overview: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage Beyond.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2012-09-03
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YOKOHAMA BLACK 4
Overview: The fourth 'YOKOHAMA BLACK' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-11-23
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YOKOHAMA BLACK 5
Overview: The fifth 'YOKOHAMA BLACK' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-01-25
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YOKOHAMA BLACK 3
Overview: The third 'YOKOHAMA BLACK' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-01-26
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YOKOHAMA BLACK 6
Overview: The sixth 'YOKOHAMA BLACK' film.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2018-11-22
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Young Kinu Yamabe is drawn to low-born Onimaru, who is vital and charismatic, but viewed by his father as a demon. After her first period, Kinu suffers the fate of any women born near the Sacred Mountain: she must leave the Mountain and serve as a priestess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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I Want to Be a Shellfish
Overview: 1944, in the depths of World War II. Toyomatsu Shimizu is a completely typical barber from a remote sea-side town who lives frugally but happily with his wife Fusae and their five-year-old son. Eventually, though, the army beckons and he is drafted. One day an officer on the battle-field orders him to kill a captive U.S. soldier. Although Toyomatsu lacks the spirit to kill the man, and only wounds him in the arm, the victorious U.S. soldiers will not accept this, and Toyomatsu is arrested and tried as a war-criminal. And he receives the cruelest sentence possible...
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2008-09-22
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Shura Group
Overview: Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-02-16
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Yakuza: The Stage Play
Overview: A stage play adaption of the 2005 video game 'Yakuza' as part of the 10-year anniversary celebration of the game's release. Ran from April 24 - April 29, 2015. A recording of the stage play was released on DVD in Japan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2015-08-27
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Kyoto Yokai Map 2: A 400-Year-Old Ice Woman Living on Kirara Slope
Overview: The frozen corpse of a young apprentice monk is found near Kirara Hill in Rakuhoku. Detective Hayakawa from the Kyoto Prefectural Police grows suspicious of the fact that someone froze to death in the middle of summer and visits his nephew Saburo, who works at a cryogenics research institute. Shortly after, the frozen body of Saburo’s father, Takayoshi, is also discovered. Recently, Takayoshi had been closely involved with a designer named Saori.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1981-08-15
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Shura ga Yuku 10
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-09-04
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Chronicle of the Town Magistrate
Overview: In a maelstrom of evil, can a new magistrate, samurai Mochizuki Koheita, with a reputation like an alley cat, bring order to the town of Horisoto, or is he, too a corrupt villain looking to gain wealth from the oppressed people? From the pen of famed samurai author Yamamoto Shugoro, this exciting tale turns the tables on the standard samurai story with a unique lead character previously portrayed in Ichikawa Kon’s “Dora Heita.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-12-23
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Sleeping Forest
Overview: A man is found dead in a office of Takayanagi Ballet Company. The suspect is a female dancer at the ballet company. The Takayanagi Ballet Company insists that the incident is a self defense case, but after an investigation there's doubts in that claim. Then, the director of the Takayanagi Ballet Company is poisoned to death. Are the cases related?
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-01-02
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Shura Group Part 2
Overview: Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the control of the influential members of the Guretai, known as the "Yokohama Four Heavenly Kings," and the Inahara group quickly expanded its influence from Yokohama to the Tokaido region. The world of yakuza then enters the era of Ryuji Inahara and Masao Tashiro, the third generation member of the Yamaga-gumi.
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-11-25
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Shura Group Part 3
Overview: Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the emblem of the Inahara-kai. Then, in 1961, Inahara-kai opened a new headquarters office in Roppongi, Tokyo. Further incidents and conflicts await Ryuji and the Inahara-kai.
Genres: History Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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極道はクリスチャン 修羅の抗争
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2001-06-08
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Labyrinth Romanesque
Overview: A serial killing occurs at a port town brothel.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-01-15
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Saya: Perspective in Love
Overview: Erotic thriller about a porn photographer who has to deal with a psychopath.
Genres: Horror Thriller Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1986-10-17
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Domineering
Overview: When the patriarch of Japan's most powerful yakuza family is shot, his wife is left to pick up the pieces and carry on the legacy.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1982-10-29
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Nile
Overview: A Japanese journalist in Afghanistan, whose wife dies in an explosion, tries to overcome his sorrows and goes to Egypt on a mission to cover the discovery of a tomb in the Valley of the Kings. As a gang tracks him down for locating the tomb, he falls in love with the girlfriend of the gang's boss who looks like his wife.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1999-11-13
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AIBOU: The Movie II
Overview: The kidnapping of some chiefs of police by a rogue ex-policeman is just the beginning for a much much bigger story that it seems at first sight.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2010-12-23
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X Game 2
Overview: High school girl and four other people were forced to play a X-game to take responsibility for what they did in the past.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-04-21
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Specialist 2
Overview: A mysterious code written with letters and numbers is found on a street in Kyoto. Yoshito Takuma (Tsuyoshi Kusanagi) and Chinami Anekoji (Kaho Minami) begin to investigate. They discover that something happened at the place where the code was found on stickers and they also discover a dead body. A man known as "Writer" is suspected of being the culprit. To find the man known as "Writer," Yoshito Takuma infiltrates into Shiga central prison. --asianwiki
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2014-03-08
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The Boss' Wife
Overview: The widow of a murdered yakuza boss serves jail time for attacking the man she believes killed her husband. After her release, as she is shadowed by a hitman, she returns to thoughts of revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1988-11-19
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Outrage Coda
Overview: Five years after the all-out war between the Sanno and Hanabishi crime families, former yakuza boss Otomo works in South Korea for Mr. Chang, a noted fixer. When tensions rise between Chang and the Hanabishi, and Chang's life is endangered, Otomo returns to Japan to settle things once and for all.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2017-10-07
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My Road
Overview: Two young Japanese men travel about 1,500 km from the Utah desert to Reno, Nevada by hitchhiking
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1980-10-04
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Invitation from the Beach
Overview: A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1978-04-08
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Manila Gokudo Wars
Overview: Shuji Kanzaki, who lives in the underworld of Manila, winds up in a fierce battle with Japan's biggest gangster.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-03-13
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Emperor of Upheaval
Overview: The anti-gangster law has been very bad for business, but one yakuza boss is running his syndicate like a ruthless conglomerate -- and thriving.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1993-06-12
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Lonely Hitman
Overview: There are men in this world who seem to have been born to be a villain. His upbringing, his sexuality, everything about him was suited to being in the criminal world. However, he also had a loving wife and children. This is the story of a man who throws himself into a deadly struggle on the front lines of a huge violent war, while at the same time seeking the happiness of his family as a good husband and father.
Genres: Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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Black Cop
Overview: An ex-detective who accidentally kills a suspect becomes a dog of the yakuza
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-01-10
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Violent Island: Dirty Money Hijack
Overview: In the scorching heat of Okinawa, former lovers meet. Now, he is a gangster on a mission, she is a window trying to protect what is hers. Together, they get caught in the crossfire.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1992-09-11
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Watashi ga watashi de aru tame ni
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 2006-10-10
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Mahjong Ghost Side Story: Tokaido Mahjong Unhomed
Overview: Sakurai Shoichi meets Nishi, a man who lost all his money in gambling. Attracted by Nishi's personality, Shoichi invites him along on a gambling trip to the Tokaido. Nishi wants to raise money for his son's college entrance fee, so he wants him to play mahjong and win. However, at an inn in Hakone where Nishi is friendly, Shoichi is tricked by the yakuza
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Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1996-09-06
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