Tatsuo Matsumura Movies

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

The Story of Panda – Taotao, directed by Shuichi Nakahara and Tatsuo Shimamura, was the first animation produced as a Chinese-Japanese joint...

The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the...

Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the...

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was...

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

On the road again, Torajiro meets a kindred spirit in Lily, a lounge singer.

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

1962 Japanese movie

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.