Haruo Tanaka Movies

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

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

Hidejiro is a wandering yakuza with a ‘karashi botan’ (Chinese lion and peony) tattoo. Owing a favor to the Soda Family, he kills the...

A comedy directed by Mitsumasa Saito about a pair of clumsy detectives who solve a case they become involved in by chance. Shosuke Ikashima and Ryuji...

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

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

Second film of Makino's Nihon Kyokakuden series set in Osaka's harbor. The series also known as "The Domain" Each a stand alone film in it's own,...

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and...

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.

Tossing his hat in the air to pick a direction, Yataro the wanderer sets out on a journey of adventure, not knowing what tomorrow may bring. The son...

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...

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he...

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

A platonic love story, the protagonist continues to love the woman he fell in love with when he was a boy for the rest of his life.