Eijirō Tōno Movies

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

The intense selfishness of a man brings him fame and fortune but not happiness.

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of...

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji,...

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...

1961 Japanese movie

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...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog.

Yano, a progressive individual who seeks to overcome strength with gentleness and confronts physical power with moral principles, faces off against a...

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.