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...

1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Japanese mystery thriller.

A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they...

Japanese drama film.

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...

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Horror film directed by Toshikazu Kôno.

Japanese comedy film.

George Mihara was ordered by his grandfather Tom to go to Japan. The purpose was to deliver a $100,000 check to Matsuyama, a Japanese soldier who had...

Gonza was a handsome young laborer, a footman and spear-carrier, working hard for his meager wage. All Gonza wanted was to marry his young...

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...

Mototsugu is the younger son of Akira Sakawa, a director of an advertising agency whose mother, Nobuko, is ill with cancer of the liver. His elder...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

The last judgment.

1959 youth comedy.

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case.

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