Fudeko Tanaka Movies

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

1962 Japanese movie

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

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

1961 Japanese movie

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

1962 Japanese movie

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

Japanese drama film.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

Japanese drama film.