Haruo Tanaka Movies

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with...

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

1962 Japanese movie

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

Aoi Shingo, a son of the Shogun, continues his travels seeking to further his mastery of the sword. In this final episode of the popular...

Akiko Hojo, a nurse at Aisei Catholic Hospital, is spending another public holiday at Kotaro Hidaka's house. Hidaka, who is a poor musician suffers...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

A 1943 film.

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that...

The hoodlum group tries to help a little printing factory against gangsters.

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...