Haruo Tanaka Movies

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...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

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...

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

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

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 lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

A woman abandoned by the man she loved all her life becomes a ghost and takes revenge for her offense!

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

Japanese drama film.

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...

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

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

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

Japanese film.

A 1942 film.