Eijirō Tōno Movies

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning comb...

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortl...

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the office...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a pla...

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who wat...

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Set in the 1860s, the final years of the Tokugawa Shogunate, The Fireflies focuses on Tose (Awashima Chikage),the mistress of the Teradaya, a small i...

It's a story of the life of a man who advocated the necessity of sex education to children, which was unusual at the time, solely opposed to the amend...

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially gree...

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Japanese action film.

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

Japanese mystery thriller.

Japanese comedy film.

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a hooker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at...