Tsuruko Mano Movies

Story of an ex-sailor, caught up in a murder mystery involving gold dust buried in Manchuria, while romancing a woman whose father may be the center...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

An Ishiro Honda film.

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

1962 Japanese movie

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Period comedy about an undertaker's assistant in love with the daughter of a wealthy doctor. When her father refuses to allow the young lovers to...

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Japanese war-era film

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The...