Taiji Tonoyama Movies

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a woman giving birth in a graveyard in the former...

A family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.

Life and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the mob.

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Kanazawa in the Taisho era. A former junior high school student, Ichiro's family used to be a large landowner, but now they are living in poverty...

Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.

Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.

Film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

Ayako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her face. She shows up at the elementary school and acts...

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

When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his...

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the...

A young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor his children.

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan.