Haruo Tanaka Movies

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial...

Film by Kon Ichikawa

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

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted...

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

Oichi may have met her match as she vies against the evil beauty that has set her sights on destroying her. She must face numerous other challenges...

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

When corruption spreads through a real estate company, president Hiyoshi brings in his honest friend Ryūtarō to reform it. Facing union...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close,...

A samurai is struggling to make ends meet at the end of the Edo period. He has students and, among other things, teaches them about the evils of the...

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

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

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.