Haruo Tanaka Movies

1968 film

Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close,...

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

It's an extravaganza of entertainment as famous magistrate in disguise, Toyama no Kinshiro attempts to confront the elusive thief known as the ...

The great Okawa Hashizo, in one of his most powerful roles risks his life and limb to help save the lovely Onaka from a terrible lifestyle. Starting...

A middle-aged office worker, Masao Okada (Eiji Okada), discovers that his worsening illness is terminal cancer. Shaken and resigned, he meets a...

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions

The final film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A stage director who directs a “Mori no Ishimatsu” play time travels and becomes “Mori no Ishimatsu” himself.

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....