Haruo Tanaka Movies

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.

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 for...

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

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

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...

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

Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo...

Japanese drama film.

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Romantic comedy.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....