Eijirō Tōno Movies

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

[Period covered: 1595-1600] Third film in the famous shinobi no mono series. We last saw ninja Ishikawa Goemon (Raizo Ichikawa), as he was about to...

Japanese Warmovie

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

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

The few residents left on the streets in Tokyo share their individual stories and come to understand the melancholy of saying goodbye.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

Director Hiroshi Inagaki's early version of the life and death of famed swordsman Sasaki Kojiro. Otani Tomoemon gives a brilliant performance as...

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning...

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

The picture belongs to the jidai gekki (historic) genre. It is a powerful story of violence and eroticism, picturing a world at once sordid and...

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Japanese mystery thriller.