is a 1943 Japanese film directed by Koga Masato and starring Koji Nakata and Ryo Akaboshi.
It tells the story of Tani Yutaka, known as "Harimau" (Malay word for "Tiger") who was a secret agent for the Japanese military who died in a hospital in Singapore. It is debatable that Tani Yutaka is the true "Harimau Malaya" or "The Tiger of Malaya" and not Tomoyuki Yamashita.Michael Baskett The Attractive Empire: Transnational Film Culture in Imperial Japan 2008- Page 188 "Marai no tora, Eiga kyakuhon (Apr. 1943), ... The top five were Heiroku's Dream Tales (Heiroku yume monogatari, Toho), Tiger of Malay (Marai no tora, Daiei), Singapore All-out Attack (Shingaporu sokogeki, Daiei), Daughter (Musume, ..."Stephen C. Mercado The Shadow Warriors of Nakano: A History of the Imperial Japanese ... 2002 - Page 32 "Marai no Tora (Tiger of Malaya), starring the dashing actor Nakata Koji in the title role, hit Japanese theaters in 1943."Hiroshi Kitamura Screening Enlightenment: Hollywood and the Cultural Reconstruction ... 2010 - Page 263 "Tiger in Malaya, or Marai no tora (1943)"Remco Raben, Representing the Japanese occupation of Indonesia: personal ... - Rijksmuseum (Netherlands) - 1999 Page 231 "The first film version was Marai no tora (Tiger of Malay, 1943, Daiei, 84 minutes). Next was a live action children's TV show Kaiketsu Harimao (Amazing Harimao, 1960-1961, NTV [Nihon Television], 65 30-minute episodes)."Markus Nornes, Yukio Fukushima The Japan/America film wars: World War II propaganda and its ... 1994 - Pages 80, 82, 240 index p.289 "Tiger of Malaya, The (Marai no tora)"Yukio Fukushima 福島行雄, Markus Nornes Nichi-Bei eigasen: Pāru Hābā 50-shūnen Seisakusho (Toa Sound News Co) 1991 Page 72 "Marai no Tora (The Tiger of Malay, 1943) is a war propaganda film based on the famous legend of Harimao. The hero, Tani Yutaka, who had fallen into a trap staged by British Imperialists and saw his child ..."
Cast Koji Nakata as Tani Yutaka Ryo Akaboshi as farmer
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External links
Malaya’s Other Tiger at malayablackandwhite The Many Lives of the Tiger of Malaya at malayablackandwhite