Haruo Tanaka

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life, ...

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei’s store. ...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to ...

Oiwa has been searching for the one who killed her father for a long time. She comes to Yedo and sees a man named Naosuke. The film is based on ...

The story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman. 1958 remake of a 1943 film (same ...

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza. ...

On New Year’s Day 1716, Munenaga of Owari and Yoshinao of Kii were both named as candidates for the title of 8th Shogun. The wise and just ...

The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo ...

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a ...

Japan nineteenth century. High demand for tattooed geisha generates an entire industry for their “production”. Europeans pay more for ...

The story of an airport and its air-traffic control crew in a remote northern-Japanese town. Three of the air-traffic controllers are female; one ...

A pimp and mobsters try to separate two lesbian call girls, with tragic consequences. Release: Cruel Female Love Suicide 1970 tt0287167 General: ...

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form. ...

This tragic drama shows a young man fettered by Bushido, the way of the Samurai, who tried to escape the chains of his position, but was being ...

Gonsuke has had to leave town to find employment and is working at a sake brewery far from his hometown. He travels back to his hometown to see ...

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the ‘Bahansen’ (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the ...

A troupe of travelling players arrive at a small seaport in the south of Japan. Komajuro Arashi, the aging master of the troupe, goes to visit ...

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards ...

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun’s uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair ...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat. Release: Shozo a Cat and Two Women 1956 ...