Kenzō Tabu Movies

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

Ayako Wakao won the Blue Ribbon and the Kinema Jumpo for this film.

1962 Japanese movie

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Hitoshi Ueki) starts out as Nobunaga's "Sandal Keeper" but climbs the ranks to eventually become a trusted general.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to...

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...

An ambitious young woman uses her sex appeal to solve financial problems in her family, including a brother in debt to the yakuza, and a father who...

The last (10th) Toho "Crazy film" in the Nippon Ichi series.

The 14th and final "Crazy" feature. The Crazy Cats reunited (minus Ishibashi, who had by then retired from the team) for one last feature, Jun...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

1964 Japanese movie

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

Kita Ippei (Atsumi Kiyoshi) became a security officer in the Metropolitan Police Department's Security Division after catching a thug who attacked a...

A kind of modern dress "Donzoko" "The Lower Depths", about slum life in Osaka, where a greedy widow (Mimasu) takes advantage of her poor roomers,...

Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.