Tsuruko Mano Movies

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous...

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

1962 Japanese movie

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

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

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Japanese war-era film

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...