Taiji Tonoyama Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

A gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi during the Edo period.

Released on the same date as Shochiku's version.

1975 Toei movie.

The Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's salaries to support the family's six members, life is not...

In 1945, a boy evacuated to Miyagi Prefecture befriends a local child, and the two begin to play harmonica near the local military base. Then, one...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

Shinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his admiration for her. However, a harsh reality awaits him in...

Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's...

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime.

A street vendor who eloped with his girlfriend and injured her brother loses her to illness, and now has to confront the brother and some dirty local...

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.