Haruo Tanaka

An innocuous comment during a weapon inspection wounds the pride of low-ranking samurai Shinpachi, leading to an argument with his superior. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Also known as “History of a Man’s Face” and “By a Man’s Face Shall You Know Him” . Immigrant gangs terrorize a ...

When a theater troupe’s master visits his old flame, he unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

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

The story of Muhōmatsu, a rickshaw man who becomes a surrogate father to the child of a recently widowed woman.

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He’s sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan’s most powerful ...

In 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the best ...

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 ...

A luckless geisha struggles to make a living for herself and her young son.

A young man rents an apartment in Tokyo and discover it was built by his father. He falls in love with the daughter of the mistress of the house ...