Fudeko Tanaka Movies

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

In post-war Japan, a publisher goes to visit her former teacher for help on a modern translation of a legend about a mummified Buddhist monk who was...

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and...

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

1961 Japanese movie

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...

Japanese drama film.

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.