Haruo Tanaka Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three...

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

In post-WWII Osaka, a middle-aged woman is forced to examine her dreary life and marriage when her husband's young and flirtatious cousin arrives for...

Two sisters learn about the existence of their long-lost biological mother, but the younger is unable to accept the fact that she was abandoned as a...

Two boys beg their parents for a television set, nagging them until all patience is lost. The parents order the boys to be quiet and the boys do...

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

Period comedy with fantasy elements.

A theater troupe master's visit with his old flame unintentionally sets off a chain of unexpected events with devastating consequences.

Sequel to the 1955 movie.

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.

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

Follows five sex workers employed at a Japanese brothel while the nation debates the passage of an anti-prostitution law.

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her...

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

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

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....