Gin Maeda

Fuki who lives with her grandfather Shoei in Taketomi Island, Okinawa, dreams of becoming a photographer. In her childhood, her mother Masami left...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yu Aoi

If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuo Ishidate

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

On a beautiful island in Seto Inner Sea, Seichi and Minko make their living by transporting rocks to construction sites by boat. They cherish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes...

Genre: History

Cast: Mansai Nomura

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After Torajiro's latest attempt to find a bride goes awry, he starts traveling again and runs into Utako (last seen in Tora-san's Dear Old Home), now...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels again. When he returns, he falls in love...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased son's wife who resides somewhere in Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an inn where he meets Tomekichi, a young man who looks up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortality of man. His plans are derailed...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-San, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Ruthless dominatrixes pursue a mild-mannered salesman who wants to get out of his unbreakable contract with a secret bondage club.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nao Omori

Masaharu Fukuyama reprises his role from 2008's "Suspect X," playing the physicist-cum-detective Manabu Yukawa. The scientist-sleuth arrives in an...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Masaharu Fukuyama

The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who...

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Cast: Itsuji Itao

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality is harsh....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gin Maeda

Naoto Ogata plays Sadajiro, a young farmer fighting out the battle of the riot through to the end. Sadajiro's wife is played by Hiromi Iwasaki, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Naoto Ogata

This movie tell a story that set in a small fishing village in Shikamachi, Ishikawa Prefecture, People in this village depend on the local amateur...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kasumi Arimura

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

Rei Kiriyama is a 17-years-old shogi (Japanese chess) player. He debuted as a professional shogi player when he was in middle school. He lives by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Repeatedly beat to a pulp by gamblers, cops, and gangsters, lone wolf Shoji Yamanaka finally finds a home as a Muraoka family hitman and falls in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

The time spent between professional Shogi player Kiriyama and his three stories helps to heal his wounds. As he prepares to secure another win in an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryunosuke Kamiki

Kounosuke Mibu and Tae Horikawa are unable to forget each other, even though they met and fell in love 20 years ago. They had promised each other...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Based on the International Military Tribunal for the Far East of 1946–48, depicts Japanese prime minister Hideki Tojo as a family man who...

Genre: History

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

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Cast: Mocomichi Hayami

A woman fears for the safety of her fiance after his three brothers mysteriously disappear.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Kie Nakai

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

With the recession still occurring in Japan and the area of Osaka thought to be hit hardest by the economic downtown, Osaka's gubernatorial election...

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Cast: Daisuke Miyagawa

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

The 50th film in Tora-san series, using the old footages and newly shot scenes to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the series. The adult Mitsuo,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

There was a tragedy that began at the end of the '69 war. The sad story about the lives of the orphans of Manchuria refugee camp who had to struggled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kenichi Matsuyama

Carrying a bag full of samples, Mitsuo makes rounds to shoe stores in remote cities. While staying at budget hotels, his thoughts turn to Tora-san.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully comprehends his importance, the old man is a Living...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her singing career and renews her unusual relationship with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites them to her home where the three share a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984), runs away from her husband, who is only interested...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers that one of his old friends has died. Tora-san and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian (Mifune) in his relationships with his estranged...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in Shibamata. Searching for the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

In his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he is afraid of committing to a relationship.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Visualization based on Tetsuro Tamba's best-selling "Great Reikai". A story about a physicist who dies in an accident and experiences the afterlife...

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Cast: Yoshitaka Tanba

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Biographical story, based on life of Ino Tadataka, a Japanese measurer and cartographer. Ino Tadataka travelled the length and breadth of Japan on...

Genre: History

Cast: Gō Katō

Pilot for a TV series. In the pilot Hiroshi Tachi is a lower ranked samurai investigating the the murder of Tanuma Okitsugu's son Mototomo by Sano...

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Cast: Hiroshi Tachi

A female college student who aims to become a pianist meets a boy who raises a guide dog.

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Cast: Akemi Nakamura

April 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the baton in relay races. But just as her team starts...

Genre: History

Cast: Tamami Hirose

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

After failing to find a job, Mitsuo becomes a fisherman on a small island, and develops a crush on a young nurse there. Tora-san, dispatched to bring...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Morio Kazama

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so together they decide to confront...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Children's movie about a dog that can type messages into a word processor. When his owner is kidnapped, the canine summons his fellow dogs to help in...

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Cast: Gin Maeda

Mitsuo, unhappy in his new job as a shoe salesman, is invited to a festival and is introduced to a friend’s sister. Tora-san meanwhile helps an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

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Cast: Ryô Iwashita

Fuji Television film based on the manga of the same name by Hiroshi Aro.

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Cast: Megumi Mori

Bored with school, 15-year-old Daisuke Kawashima embarks on a pilgrimage to visit the 7,000-year-old cedar tree on distant Yakushima Island. Through...

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Cast: Yuta Kanai

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Cast: Chōei Takahashi

A biographical drama depicting the life full of love and suffering of the writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa, who celebrated his 100th birthday in 1996.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Mikami

As air raids intensify, fourth-grader Hisashi, or Boku-chan, chooses to evacuate from Osaka to Shimane over the objections of his mother. He is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takanori Kurumaki

After the death of a colleague, the workers at a factory form a labor union.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gin Maeda

Hoshino Bunzo raises up his orphan grandson, Keiji whose right leg gets paralyzed when he was an infant. Bunzo loves Keiji so much that he does every...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Taiji Tonoyama

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Bunta Sugawara