Shinji Tanaka Movies

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand...

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...

Futari dake no toride

1962 Japanese movie

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Japanese film.

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.