Kazuhiko Kasai

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Takakura

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nagase

The story depicts the process of a happy family being destroyed by someone taking advantage of a traffic accident caused by buying a car to show off...

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Cast: Junko Miyashita

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

A Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French driver named Pierre (Jean-Claude Drouot). Godai is...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A girl who comes to Yokohama from Tsuwano stumbles upon the solution to a mysterious series of explosions. However, when she learns this secret, evil...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Junko Sakurada

Live-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Midori Kinouchi

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Yamauchi

The quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the arrival of a man who ignites flames of romance in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Set during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the questionably noble exploits of three ronin who act as "Shadow...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Following the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido, this allegorical and oblique first feature film by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Kaga

Based on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida resigning his job as a German professor at the onset...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuo Matsumura

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there were frequent uprisings in rural areas due to farmers...

Genre: History

Cast: Mikijiro Hira