Taiji Tonoyama Movies

A coming-of-age story about two newcomers to the world of professional baseball who compete for Rookie of the Year honors and love.

Five years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma Campaign-Kenichiro Kishi, Eiji Shiga, and Daizo Kobayashi promised...

aka Libido.

Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...

Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

Based on the novel by Torahiko Tamiya.

The movie depicts the complicated romantic feelings of a woman who is attracted to a man other than her fiancé.

Mr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the quality problems and wins a big ramen contract...

1961 Japanese movie

Two inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross paths again in the nearest brothel. There they make the...

Keiko and Toshiko are sisters who leave their mountain home, where their parents live in a hydroelectric plant company house to study in the city....

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

A villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...