Taiji Tonoyama Movies

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by...

aka Libido.

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Kazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of Nobel laureate Yasunari Kawabata’s 1952...

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed...

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

Tradition and modernity clash when a young woman inherits a sweet-making firm in Kyoto.

A 1948 Japanese film.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

A Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo