Eijirō Tōno Movies

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

The last judgment.

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...

Friendship between an ambitious young thief and an artist during the Warring States period.

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...

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

The action takes place in the highlands of the Chugoku region. While the owner of the Yazaki ranch is away, a gang of villains is trying to take over...

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

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

Japanese comedy film.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

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’...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.