Tatsuo Hanabu Movies

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

1959 Japanese movie

1958 Japanese movie

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

Based on the short story of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

In this downbeat, emotionally gripping drama, a lone guardian of some small huts on one of the northernmost, small islands off Japan remembers his...

A melancholic love story between a young photographer and a young woman trapped in a loveless marriage for the sake of her poor father-in-law.

Japanese film directed by Tadashi Imai.

In the 19th century Edo period, sisters Oshizu and Otaka have sacrificed their personal happiness to work and care for their ailing father. Otaka...

A beautiful older sister and her younger brother, both designers who paint the dreams of young hope, are paired with an innocent young artist and the...

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students.

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after...

The young boy Michio struggles with the loss of his mother while his widowed father, Sadao remarries the kind-hearted Sonoko, who has a daughter of...

A musical film marking Yoshiko Yamaguchi's debut at Daiei.

When Shinsuke returns to Kyushu from the Russo-Japanese War he finds his Judo school hall neglected and in decay. His Judo teacher has died and his...