Yatsuko Tan'ami Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and...

Adaptation of novel.

An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman.

Tatsuya Nakadai plays a scheming low-level executive who plays labor against management and uses anyone he can to further his career in this moral...

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

In "The Other Woman" the children of a distinguished professor find that the woman they have come to regard as their racy and slightly disreputable...

The life and travels of adventurer Naomi Uemura, who disappeared in Alaska in 1984. A member of the first Japanese expedition to reach the summit of...

Akiko lives with her brother Toshio in suburban Tokyo working in different companies. One day, Toshio loses 500,000 yen which he was holding for his...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

This is a film about a real person. Sanada Yukimura fought a war against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A woman marries, gives birth to a stillborn child, and divorces, falls in love with a hotel-keeper, only to find herself subordinated to his drive...

Drama about the lives of the five daughters and daughter-in-law of a store owner.

Comedy based on a book by Joji Abe, about a man in prison for the 12th time.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals