Kazuhiko Kasai
Madadayo
as uncreditedBased on the life of Hyakken Uchida, a Japanese author and academic. The film opens with Uchida...
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A Distant Cry from Spring
as uncreditedThe quiet life of a mother and her young son living on a farm in Hokkaido is changed by the...
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The Yellow Handkerchief
as Checkpoint PolicemanThe story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about...
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The Hidden Blade
as uncreditedSet in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his...
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Silence Has No Wings
as uncreditedFollowing the journey of a caterpillar along the Japanese islands from Nagasaki to Hokkaido,...
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Tora-san Goes North
as uncreditedWhen his travels take him to rural Hokkaido, Tora-san helps a cantankerous old veterinarian...
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Tora-san, the Expert
as uncreditedTora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets...
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Tora-san's Forbidden Love
as uncreditedTora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who...
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Tora-san's Island Encounter
as uncreditedTora-san's family's neighbor, Akemi, who had been married in Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984),...
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The Village
as uncreditedThis appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on...
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Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset
as uncreditedTora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account,...
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Safari 5000
as uncreditedA Japanese racing driver for Nissan named Godai (Yujiro Ishihara) have a rivalry with a French...
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Shadow Hunters
as uncreditedSet during the declining years of the Tokugawa shogunate, Shadow Hunters details the...
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Tora-san Plays Cupid
as uncreditedTora-san becomes friends with Toraya's newest tenant, a pachinko-playing electrician that goes...
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Tora-san Plays Daddy
as uncreditedA playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy...
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Tora-san Goes Religious?
as uncreditedTora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late...
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Tora-san's Dream of Spring
as uncreditedTora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan...
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Tora-san, the Intellectual
as uncreditedTora-san is inspired to pursue an education after a visit to the grave of a woman he met years...
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Stage-Struck Tora-san
as uncreditedTora-san leaves Shibamata once again after an argument with his family and finds himself at an...
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Tora-san, the Go-Between
as uncreditedIn Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself....
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Tora-san Goes to Vienna
as uncreditedDuring his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to...
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Tora-san's Salad-Day Memorial
as uncreditedIn his travels through Japan, Tora-san meets and falls in love with a female doctor, however he...
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Tora-san's Pure Love
as uncreditedWhen Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on...
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Tora-san's Tropical Fever
as uncreditedWhen cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by...
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Tora-san, the Matchmaker
as uncreditedTora-san helps out a runaway bride.
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Tora-san's Song of Love
as uncreditedTora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's...
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Tora-san Meets the Songstress Again
as uncreditedTora-san visits Hokkaido and is reunited with Lily. Now divorced, she plans to resume her...
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Blood and Sea
as uncreditedThe Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking...
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Tora-san's Promise
as uncreditedTora-san returns to his family's home to attend an elementary school class reunion. After he...
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Tora-san Meets His Lordship
as uncreditedTora-san befriends the descendant of a feudal lord. The man asks Tora to locate his deceased...
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Marriage Counselor Tora-san
as uncreditedIn Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san...
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Tora-san, My Uncle
as uncreditedTora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents...
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Tora-san's Bluebird Fantasy
as uncreditedDuring his travels, Tora-san comes across a traditional theater he used to visit, and discovers...
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Foster Daddy, Tora!
as uncreditedAfter a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her...
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Hearts and Flowers for Tora-san
as uncreditedDuring his travels, Tora-san gets drunk with an old man in Kyoto. Though Tora-san never fully...
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Tora-san's Love in Osaka
as uncreditedWhen his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to...
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Apartment Wife: Night of the Rape
as Ikuo, Michiko's husbandThe story depicts the process of a happy family being destroyed by someone taking advantage of a...
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Yakyukyo no uta
as JinkusuLive-action adaptation of Shinji Mizushima's manga.
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Talk of the Town Tora-san
as uncreditedAfter a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect...
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Born Under Crossed Stars
as KanaiA young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the...
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Tenpo suiko-den: ohara yugaku
as uncreditedA great famine struck all of Japan: the so-called Great Tenpō famine. It was a time when there...
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A Woman in Danger
as uncreditedA girl who comes to Yokohama from Tsuwano stumbles upon the solution to a mysterious series of...
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