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Nambu Type 14
The Nambu Type 14 is the successor to Kijirou Nambu's previous pistol design, adopted as the standard sidearm for officers of the Imperial Japanese Army in 1927. It would see service in this role during Japan's war in China in the 1930s and through to the end of World War II. Its 8x22mm cartridge was fairly underpowered compared to the standard sidearm cartridges of other nations of the era, and many senior officers (who, as with many nations, purchased their own sidearms) preferred pistols like the FN Model 1910. The Type 14 was sometimes colloquially called a "Japanese Luger" by American troops of the time due to its silhouette, but the designs are not related.
Due to complaints about difficulty using the pistol with gloves, it was redesigned with an elongated trigger guard in 1936, resulting in what was unofficially (in both Japanese and English) referred to as the "late" model. The cocking knob was later simplified to a knurled design as well; as this change came later, many Type 14s would feature the elongated trigger guard paired with the original slotted cocking knob. In 1944, a simplified redesign named Type 19 (or "North China Type 19") was produced in extremely limited numbers in an attempt to keep troops cut off in China supplied.
On an even more obscure note, following experiments done with the preceding Nambu design in the 1920s, a small batch of prototype Type 14s were modified into pistol swords, fitted with a guntou blade built into the right-side grip panel.
Specifications
(1926 - 1945)
- Type: Pistol
- Caliber: 8x22mm Nambu
- Weight: 1.98 lbs (0.9 kg)
- Length: 9.1 in (23 cm)
- Barrel length: 4.61 in (11.7 cm)
- Capacity: 8-round magazine
- Fire Modes: Semi-Auto
The Nambu Type 14 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Film
| Title | Actor | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soviet Border (Na granitse) | Yuri Lavrov | Capt. Numata | 1938 | |
| Japanese Imperial Army officers | ||||
| Flying Leathernecks | Imperial Japanese Officers | 1951 | ||
| Halls of Montezuma | Imperial Japanese Officers | 1951 | ||
| Yesterday's Enemy | Imperial Japanese Officers | 1959 | ||
| Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster | Hiroshi Koizumi | Professor Miura | 1964 | |
| None But the Brave | Tatsuya Mihashi | Lt. Kuroki | 1965 | |
| Beach Red | Japanese officer | 1967 | ||
| Japan's Longest Day | Japanese officers | 1967 | ||
| Too Late the Hero | Ken Takakura | Imperial Japanese Army Major Yamaguchi | 1970 | |
| Joe | Peter Boyle | Joe Curran | Late Model | 1970 |
| The Bamboo House of Dolls | Hsieh Wang | Inoue | 1973 | |
| Terry Liu | Mako | |||
| Shen Chan | Nakamura | |||
| Mei Sheng Fan | Tabei | |||
| Feng-Chen Chen | Chang | |||
| Kang Ho | Japanese Army officer | |||
| Hsiung Kao | Japanese Army officer | |||
| Min-Lang Li | Japanese Army officer | |||
| Wei Lu | Japanese Army officer | |||
| Imperial Japanese Officers | ||||
| Day for Night (La Nuit américaine) | On the tray of firearms | 1973 | ||
| And on the Pacific... (I na Tikhom Okeane...) | Japanese officer | 1974 | ||
| Violent City (Roma violenta) | Giuliano Esperanti | Inspector De Rossi | 1975 | |
| Attack Force Z | Japanese officers | 1982 | ||
| Never Say Never Again | Largo's henchman | nickel-plated | 1983 | |
| Magnificent Warriors | Tetsuya Matsui | General Toga | 1987 | |
| Jang Lee Hwang | Collaborator 1 | |||
| Meng Lo | Collaborator 2 | |||
| Varios Actors | Imperial Japanese Officers | |||
| Return from the River Kwai | George Takei | Lt. Tanaka | 1989 | |
| Nick Tate | Lt. Commander Hunt | |||
| Edward Fox | Major Benford | |||
| Tatsuya Nakadai | Major Harada | |||
| Japanese officers | ||||
| Tremors | on the wall | 1990 | ||
| Aces: Iron Eagle III | Shin'ichi Chiba | Horikoshi | 1992 | |
| Black Sun: The Nanking Massacre | Imperial Japanese officers | 1995 | ||
| The Thin Red Line | Japanese Officer | 1998 | ||
| Dash Mihok | Pfc. Doll | |||
| American Beauty | 1999 | |||
| Tremors 3: Back to Perfection | on the wall | 2001 | ||
| Pearl Harbor | An Imperial Japanese Army Soldier | 2001 | ||
| Windtalkers | Imperial Japanese Officers | 2002 | ||
| K-9: P.I. | Seen in police precinct | 2002 | ||
| Cutie Honey | Panther Claw goons | 2004 | ||
| Tae Guk Gi | A North Korean Lieutenant | 2004 | ||
| The Great Raid | Masa Yamaguchi | Lt. Hikobe | 2005 | |
| Motoki Kobayashi | Major Nagai | |||
| Max Martini | 1st Sgt. Sid "Top" Wojo | |||
| Letters from Iwo Jima | Japanese Soldiers | 2006 | ||
| Flags of our Fathers | Imperial Japanese Officers | 2006 | ||
| Philosophy of a Knife | Tetsuro Sakagami | Officer #1 | 2008 | |
| The Children of Huang Shi | Japanese officer | 2008 | ||
| Ip Man | Shibuya Tenma | Colonel Sato | 2008 | |
| Australia | Imperial Officer | 2008 | ||
| Warbirds | Tohoru Masamune | Ozu | 2008 | |
| The Good, the Bad, the Weird | Manchurian officer | 2008 | ||
| Hakuryû | Colonel Ishihara | |||
| henchmen | ||||
| City of Life and Death | Kohata Ryu | Lieutenant Ida Osamu | Anachronistic trigger guards | 2009 |
| Imperial Japanese Officers | ||||
| John Rabe | Imperial Japanese Officers | 2009 | ||
| Back to 1942 | Japanese officer | 2010 | ||
| 71: Into the Fire | Seung-won Cha | Park Mu-Rang | 2010 | |
| North Korean officers | ||||
| Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen | Japanese officers | 2010 | ||
| Death and Glory in Changde | Miura Kenichi | Lt. Gen. Iwanaga | 2010 | |
| Shibuya Tenma | Col. Itō Saburo | |||
| Japanese officers | ||||
| The Flowers of War | Imperial Japanese Officers | 2011 | ||
| My Way | Joe Odagiri | Tatsuo Hasegawa | 2011 | |
| Imperial Japanese Officers | ||||
| Oba: The Last Samurai | Imperial Japanese Soldier | 2011 | ||
| Cold Steel (Bian di lang yan) | Mingxiang Guo | Major Masaya | 2011 | |
| Imperial Japanese Officers | ||||
| Unbroken | Miyavi | Mutsuhiro Watanabe | 2014 | |
| The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale | Seok-won Jeong | Ryu | 2015 | |
| Imperial Japanese Officers | ||||
| Tokyo Living Dead Idol | uncredited | Imperial Japanese officer | 2018 | |
| The Eight Hundred | Japanese infiltrators | 2020 | ||
| Project Wolf Hunting | Japanese soldiers | 2022 |
Television
| Show Title | Actor | Character | Note / Episode | Air Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McHale's Navy | Ernest Borgnine | Lt. Cmdr. McHale | replica / "One Enchanted Weekend" (S1E24) | 1963 |
| Mako | Capt. Uzaki | replica / "One Enchanted Weekend" (S1E24) | 1963 | |
| Lt. Sakawa | "The PT-73 Follies" (S3E17) | 1965 | ||
| Dale Ishimoto | Japanese Officer | "French Leave for McHale" (S2E11) | 1963 | |
| Hawaii Five-O (1968) - Season 1 | Jack Lord | McGarrett | 1968-1969 | |
| Baa Baa Black Sheep | 1976-1978 | |||
| Star Trek: Deep Space Nine | on the wall | 1993-1999 | ||
| Star Trek: Voyager | Robert Duncan McNeill | Tom Paris | "The 37's" (S02E01) | 1996 |
| Red Cap | "True Love" (S02E02) | 2003-2004 | ||
| The Pacific | 2010 | |||
| The Man in the High Castle | Lee Shorten | Sgt. Yoshida | 2015 | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Joel de la Fuente | Chief Inspector Kido | 2016 | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Rupert Evans | Frank Frink | 2016 | |
| Hawaii Five-0 (2010) | Alex O'Loughlin | Steve McGarrett | "Ua ola loko i ke aloha" (S6E12) | 2015-2016 |
| Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders - Season 1 | Takashi Yamaguchi | Yukio | "Whispering Death" (S1E04) | 2016 |
| Elementary | Dorian Missick | FBI Agent Calvin Whitlock | "It Serves You Right to Suffer"(S5E9) | 2016 |
| The Mandalorian | Gina Carano | Cara Dune | 2019 | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Joel de la Fuente | Chief Inspector Kido | 2019 | |
| The Man in the High Castle | Rich Ting | Captain Iijima | 2019 |
Video Game
| Game Title | Appears as | Note | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resident Evil Survivor | "Papa Nambu" | 2000 | |
| Deadly Dozen Pacific Theater | "Nambu" | 2002 | |
| Forgotten Hope | 2003 | ||
| Medal of Honor: Rising Sun | 2003 | ||
| Hidden & Dangerous 2 | "Taisho 14" | 2003 | |
| Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault | "Nambu Pistol" | 2004 | |
| The History Channel: Battle for the Pacific | 2007 | ||
| Call of Duty: World at War | 2008 | ||
| Battlefield 1943 | 2009 | ||
| Battlefield: Bad Company 2 | 2010 | ||
| 7554 | "Nambu" | 2011 | |
| Men of War | 2012 | ||
| Glorious Missions | Non-player weapon, used by Imperial Japanese Army and Terrorists | 2012 | |
| Far East War | Early model | 2013 | |
| Red Orchestra 2: Rising Storm | 2013 | ||
| World of Guns: Gun Disassembly | Nambu Type 14 | later model with early model cocking piece | 2014 |
| Enlisted | A hybrid of two models. Early and Late. | 2021 | |
| Sniper Elite 5 | 2022 |
Anime
| Title | Character | Note | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Momotaro: Sacred Sailors | Captain Momotaro | 1945 | |
| New Dream Hunter Rem: Massacre in the Phantasmic Labyrinth | is seen in the Geppetto base | 1992 | |
| Birdy the Mighty | Hikawa Shogo | 1996 | |
| FLCL | Lieutenant Kitsurubami | 2000 - 2001 | |
| Sakura Wars: The Movie | Japanese Army officer | 2001 | |
| Zipang | 2004 | ||
| When They Cry: Kai | 2007 | ||
| The Skull Man | 2007 | ||
| Case Closed | A criminal | Ep. 548 - 'Two Days with the Culprit' and in Ep. 735 - 'The Coded Invitation' | 2009 |
| Strike Witches 2 | Keisuke Hijikata | 2010 | |
| Mardock Scramble: The First Compression | Welldone | 2010 | |
| Night Raid 1931 | Japanese Army officer | 2010 | |
| Cat Planet Cuties | 2010 | ||
| Survival Game Club! | 2014 | ||
| Joker Game | 2016 | ||
| Lupin Zero | A mobster | Ep. "Hang Tight to the Treasure on the Train" | 2022-2023 |
Animation
| Title | Characters | Notation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archer - Season 6 | 1st Lieutenant Kintaru "Ken" Sato | 2015 |