Chishū Ryū Movies

Japanese youth film.

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Tora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he embarrasses himself by getting drunk and insulting all...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’...

Tora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes by the nickname Watt. Tora attempts to match Watt...

Tora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years ago. When he returns to Shibamata with the intent to...

During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Tora-san Makes Excuses is a 1992 Japanese comedy film directed by Yoji Yamada. It stars Kiyoshi Atsumi as Torajirō Kuruma (Tora-san), and Kumiko...

The fourth instalment in the Life's Simple Pleasures (Salaryman Mejiro Sanpei) series.

The timid first love of high school students! A whisper of love between a young man and a girl! The experiences of a middle-aged couple with a child!...

Based on the original work by Fumiko Hayashi, this is a story about a woman and two men. The lust is restrained and indifferent. The story even has...

In the movies of those times, you can see young boys in the company scene often. Those boys were called kyuji (給仕), which means...

1961 Theater of Life adaptation.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.