Taiji Tonoyama Movies

A small-time thug fresh out of prison is lured back onto the path of crime and joins a gang of safe-crackers.

A TV film based on the kidnapping and murder of 4 year old Yoshinobu Murakoshi.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

Nagisa Harumi had moved to Tokyo dreaming of becoming a revue star, but she couldn’t even land a job as a dancer and ended up working as a...

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

1975 Toei movie.

Among Yoshimura’s complex and political works, this episodic film, set in the early 1930s, follows the life of a young left-wing student...

On the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane has married an old wealthy man to escape a life of...

BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a...

A chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the farmers transporting gold to the governor think they...

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

A melodrama based on a hit song by Yoshio Tabata. Set on Kikaijima Island, the story depicts the love between a simple-hearted island girl and a...

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

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

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the...

The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.

A tale of melancholy centered on a couple of engineers at a power plant in the north and a pure romance with a female engineer.