Cast: Gannosuke Ashiya

Direction Kôhei Oguri

Cast Takahiro Tamura · Mariko Kaga · Nobutaka Asahara · Makiko Shibata

Plot Two boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close friends. The two families' "businesses" are in fact dining and prostitution. When...

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Tamotsu Hayakawa · Yoshiko Kayama · Gannosuke Ashiya · Yôko Mihara

Plot A drama about a clash between a responsible lodging house caretaker and a collective protagonist in the form of a pack of adolescents.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Keiko Matsuzaka · Masami Shimojô

Plot When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her estranged brother, and informs his family that he...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Reiko Fujiwara · Kyôko Enami

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Jiro Tamiya · Shigeru Amachi · Shiho Fujimura · Masumi Harukawa

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Michiko Saga · Minoru Shiraki

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Mikiko Tsubouchi · Yuji Nanbu · Reiko Fujiwara

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Yukiji Asaoka · Yuko Hamada

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Ruriko Asaoka · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Plot Tora-san to the Rescue is the forty-eighth, and last entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Masahisa Sadanaga

Cast Makoto Fujita · Kunihiko Mitamura · Izumi Ayukawa · Kiyoshi Nakajyoo

Plot A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed they must act quickly...

Direction Shigehiro Ozawa

Cast Sumiko Fuji · Koji Tsuruta · Michiyo Kogure · Eizo Kitamura

Plot Taking place in Shinshu in the 1920s, Tsumakoi Okoma, while traveling to hone her gambling skills, teams up with the vagabond Tsukuba Tsuneji and comes into conflict with gamblers plotting...

Direction Buichi Saito

Cast Hisaya Morishige · Yûko Asano · Katsuyo Asari · Shinsuke Ashida

Plot It is an autobiographical story, covering half-life of Kumago Matsuzaka modeled after novelist Miyamoto Teru's father.

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Takahiro Tamura · Akiko Koyama · Gannosuke Ashiya

Direction Eiichi Kudo

Cast Ken Ogata · Ayumi Ishida · Shigeru Izumiya · Gannosuke Ashiya

Direction Teruo Ishii

Cast Teruo Yoshida · Masumi Tachibana · Asao Koike · Yumiko Katayama

Plot A film about obsessions on bondage and tattoos, disguised as historically adequate treatment of an inglorious episode in Japans long gone past. It's ingredients are violence, brothels, tattoos, female whorehouse...

Direction Yûichi Harada · Junji Kurata · Yoshiyuki Kuroda · Mak Chi-Woh

Cast Kotaro Satomi · Yumiko Nogawa · Tetsurô Tanba · Shôhei Hino

Plot TV series (1983-1991). 3 seasons. 233 episodes.