Eijirō Tōno Movies

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

Residents of a rundown boardinghouse in 19th-century Japan, including a mysterious old man and an aging actor, get drawn into a love triangle that...

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

Story of a textile designer-turned featherweight boxer (Kubo) who, a la Champion ( 1949), loses everything as he battles his way to the top.

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

A recently released gangster has to cope with the recent shifts of power between gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young woman, who got in...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Yataro Tanigawa, a one-eyed hired assassin, impresses yakuza boss Gomyo Kiyoemon with his skill. Gomyo hires Tanigawa as his bodyguard, or yojimbo,...

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle with the intention of...

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha...

A yakuza bodyguard is persuaded by Ōhara Yūgaku to take the farmers’ side.