Taiji Tonoyama Movies

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel.

A 1960 crime film

The film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an uneducated zori sandal maker, becomes a professional...

Airline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.

A 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for his immense contributions to Toho's Godzilla series by...

Fresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He persuades one of his former performers to join his troupe...

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.

Japanese drama film.

The film marked Yōko Mihara's debut as the star of Shintoho's series of ama films, a role she took over from Michiko Maeda.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.

The rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That makes him unpopular, not only with the police, even...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

The film depicts how the work to build the Great Buddha overcame a number of obstacles as proponents and opponents clashed over the construction of...

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.