Haruo Tanaka Movies

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

1962 Japanese movie

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that...

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

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...

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...

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

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

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

Japanese film.

A 1942 film.