Yōko Tsukasa Movies

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately,...

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of...

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

As Japan joins in a political pact with Nazi Germany and fascist Italy, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto is appointed supreme commander of the Japanese...

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old...

A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.

The third installment in the Shacho Series.

The eighth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.

1955 Japanese movie

Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who...

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband.

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

A guilt-haunted samurai warrior attempts to stop a massacre taking place.

A "hustler's hustler" (Takarada), works his way up the corporate ladder at a camera company. His biggest scheme involves winning the business of a...