Tadashi Iimura

Movies

風来忍法帖 八方破れ
Director of Photography
The second of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
Arupusu no wakadaishô
Cinematography
Seventh movie of the Wakadaishō series directed by Kengo Furusawa
風来忍法帖
Director of Photography
The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.
The Lovelorn Geisha
Director of Photography
A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself "already dead."
Someday I'll Know
Director of Photography
A modern love story involving different affairs.
Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman
Director of Photography
An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a ski-ers' shelter following an avalanche, killing all inside. This is an adaptation of the Japanese film Ju Jin Yuki Otoko with added American-made footage, narration and music track.
The Spell of the Hidden Gold
Cinematography
Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.
The Beauty Expert
Director of Photography
Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Cinematography
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
Rainy Night Duel
Cinematography
Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.
The Maiden Courtesan
Director of Photography
Period romantic drama.
Half Human
Director of Photography
Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.
Mother and Son
Director of Photography
An Ishiro Honda film.
Lovetide
Director of Photography
An Ishiro Honda film.
The Black Fury
Cinematography
A narcotics investigator for the harbor police, Eiichi Tsuda, is driven by thoughts of vengeance for the overdose death of his brother and the subsequent decline and death of their mother. Tsuda acts viciously and with disdain for legal niceties in his exploration of the criminal facts behind the explosion of a freighter in the harbor. He goes undercover with a band of drug smugglers, but his methods threaten to destroy him as well as his case.
Last of the Wild Ones
Director of Photography
A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.
Jirocho's New Year
Director of Photography
Jirocho, the Hunted
Director of Photography
A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.
Red-Line Base
Cinematography
Story about a poor Japanese woman living near an American army base who resorts to prostitution.
Jirocho Strikes a Daring Blow
Director of Photography
Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.
Adolescence Part II
Director of Photography
A story of unhappy youths and the perils of lack of sex education.
Their Father's Wife
Cinematography
My Wonderful Yellow Car
Cinematography
恐妻時代
Director of Photography
Tokyo Sweetheart
Cinematography
Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine boys, a maker of costume jewelry, and a streetcorner artist all struggle to make their livings and to find happiness in difficult surroundings.
Sword for Hire
Cinematography
Soldiers Hayate and Yaheiji secretly escape from their besieged castle. Hayate has left behind his lover, Kano. On his way, Hayate is wounded and cared for by O’Ryo, who falls in love with him. But when Hayate accidentally kills her caretaker, he flees, with O’Ryo in pursuit. Subsequently, Hayate's comrade Yaheiji falls in love with Oryo. Kano, the lover left behind by Hayate, believes him dead, and becomes involved with another soldier, Jurota. When Jurota defects to the opposing army, he takes Kano with him. A double set of love triangles has developed, wherein each man and each woman loves one and is loved by another. Finally only combat and self-sacrifice can untangle the weave.
Mr. Lucky
Cinematography
Wedding March
Director of Photography
Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa
The Blue Pearl
Director of Photography
Though recognized worldwide almost exclusively for his colorful kaiju fare, director Ishirō Honda (Godzilla, Rodan, Mothra) was a natural humanist with a particular understanding of the relationship between people and their social environs. His debut fiction feature, The Blue Pearl (Aoi Shinju) – virtually unseen in the west until now – depicts the melodramatic, but keenly-observed interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are portrayed as diametric opposites; the former meek but affectionate, the latter strong-willed but jaded by a tryst with metropolitan life. Nonetheless, Honda provides equal weight to their desires and their ambitions to break free from the social mold imposed upon them from birth.