Cast: Tokuko Sugiyama

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Ken Takakura · Chieko Baisho · Hidetaka Yoshioka · Tokuko Sugiyama

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Kumiko Goto · Hidetaka Yoshioka

Plot Tora-san Confesses is the forty-fourth entry in the popular, long-running Otoko wa Tsurai yo series.

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Chieko Baisho · Akira Terao · Atomu Shimojô · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Plot The film is set in Matsuo, a remote farming village in Iwate Prefecture in northern Honshu. On a snowy March evening, a youths' association, made up of local twenty-somethings, is...

Direction Yôji Yamada

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Chieko Baisho · Nana Kinomi · Tetsuya Takeda

Plot Tora-san returns from his travels throughout Japan to his family's home in Tokyo to find his uncle recovering from an illness. After a family fight erupts, he returns to the...

Direction Kirio Urayama

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Eijirô Tono · Shoichi Ozawa

Plot Set in Kawaguchi, just north of Tokyo in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of poor foundry workers and their families, and one girl's dreams of self-improvement...

Direction Makoto Wada

Cast Hiroyuki Sanada · Mieko Harada · Mami Kumagai · Michiko Shimizu

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Mieko Harada · Keigo Matsuyama · Shogo Matsuyama · Kyôzô Nagatsuka

Plot Tells of the childhood of two nine-year-old twins in a rural village in Japan after World War 2. Includes the boys relationships with their schoolteacher mother, civil servant father, elderly...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Keiko Takahashi · Masaaki Daimon · Keizo Kanie · Keiko Matsuzaka

Plot A young factory worker is picked up and courted by a clumsy youth with yakuza dreams, over one long day and a night. But in the fourteen years since Kisses,...