Taiji Tonoyama
Taiji Tonoyama (殿山 泰司, Tonoyama Taiji, 1915–1989) was a Japanese character actor who made many appearances in films and on television from 1939 to 1989. He was a close friend of Kaneto Shindo and one of his regular cast members. He was also an essayist. In 1950 he helped form the film company Kindai Eiga Kyokai with Shindo and Kōzaburō Yoshimura.
In the Realm of the Senses
as Old BeggarA passionate telling of the story of Sada Abe, a woman whose affair with her master led to an...
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Empire of Passion
as ToichiroIn a small Japanese village at the end of the 19th century, a rickshaw driver's wife takes on a...
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Good Morning
as Pushy ManA lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of...
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The Ballad of Narayama
as TeruyanIn a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go...
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Onibaba
as UshiWhile her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai...
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Drunken Angel
as Shop ProprietorDoctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he...
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Hachiko
as HashimotoThe tragic, true story about Hachikō, an Akita dog who was loyal to his master, Professor Ueno,...
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The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
as uncreditedAfter handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post...
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Vengeance Is Mine
as Tanejiro ShibataA thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu is on the run from the police.
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Kuroneko
as FarmerIn the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time...
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Scandal
as Aoye's friendA celebrity photograph sparks a court case as a tabloid magazine spins a scandalous yarn over a...
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Sex and Fury
as Tokuzô KasaiSex & Fury chronicles Ocho's exploits as she searches for her father's killers, each identified...
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Intentions of Murder
as Beret MusicianThe neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with...
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Fruits of Passion
as CustomerA girl named O loves a rich, and much older man. She is subjected to a variety of humiliating...
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A Pool Without Water
as PharmacistThe man has a monotonous job punching tickets for the Japanese railway. One night, while walking...
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Policeman's Diary
as Patrolman KuramochiLending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not...
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Gate of Hell
as KakisukeJapan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a...
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The Naked Island
as SentaA family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to...
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The Insect Woman
as ForemanA woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect,...
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The Ball at the Anjo House
as YoshidaAfter Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their...
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Black Rain
as Old PriestShigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with...
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The Ceremony
as uncreditedOshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses...
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A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
as KurazoSaheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He...
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Cupola, Where the Furnaces Glow
as MatsunagaSet in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families...
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Pigs and Battleships
as ChenIn the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the...
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Japanese Summer: Double Suicide
as uncreditedA sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe...
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Legend of the Eight Samurai
as HikojiiThe evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the...
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Burden of Love
as Mr. YamaguchiThe female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a...
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Samurai from Nowhere
as uncreditedMisawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of...
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Edo Porn
as TattooistThe world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income,...
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Ballad of Orin
as Mountain ManA blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world...
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The Castle of Sand
as Publican at EbisuTwo detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in...
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The Pornographers
as FatherSubu makes pornographic films. He sees nothing wrong with it. They are an aid to a repressed...
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Tomorrow
as StorekeeperOn August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story...
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My Way
as Yoshizo KawamuraBased on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve...
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Zegen
as ShimadaAt the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and...
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Tokyo Pop
as GrandfatherA young rock singer is not appreciated by her band, and gets a postcard from Japan saying "wish...
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Violence at Noon
as School directorTwo young women must come to terms with the fact that a man they're deeply linked to is a...
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Silence
as Prison guardTwo Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread...
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Seisaku's Wife
as Retired ManOn the eve of the Russo-Japanese war at the beginning of the 20th century, small-town girl Okane...
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The Strangling
as uncreditedThe men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company...
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Why Not?
as JyosyuyaThe film depicts carnivalesque atmosphere summed up by the cry "Ei ja nai ka" ("Why not?") in...
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The Rendezvous
as MuraiThe brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and...
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Street of Violence
as Ango ShindoAn attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police...
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Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
as uncreditedMichio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a...
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Endless Desire
as Ramen shop ownerSet in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a...
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The White Orchid
as uncreditedA Japanese adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's short story Boule de Suif, directed by Kimura Keigo
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Dorodarake no seishun
as uncreditedShigeki Kachi, Tosuke Satomura, and Nanako, who belong to the theater company Vuanbert around...
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Dear Summer Sister
as Takuzo SakuradaSunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because...
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Children of Hiroshima
as Owner of a shipShows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays...
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Akitsu Hot Springs
as uncreditedYoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and...
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A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
as Genzô Kakinuma (Bath-house Manager)A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with...
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Temptation
as TobeShokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an...
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Three Resurrected Drunkards
as Old manThree students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a...
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Red Light District: Gonna Get Out
as Kofukuya's OwnerIt's the evening before the day all brothels must be shut-down, according to the new law, in...
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Muddy River
as Man on Festival BoatTwo boys, whose parents ply their trade by the mouth of a muddy river in Osaka, become close...
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Evil Spirits of Japan
as Pachinko ownerMurase is a bodyguard of yakuza group. Ochiai is a police officer who once was a student...
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Hot Springs Mimizu Geisha
as uncreditedMany persons visit the hot springs resort to try out Reiko's famous vagina with quivering walls,...
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Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan
as uncreditedKiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI...
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Evening Primrose
as Genji's fatherThe Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown...
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My Second Brother
as Hemmi GengoroThe film tells the story of four orphans living in an impoverished mining town. An adaptation of...
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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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The Champion
as Pote-chanEikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club...
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Conquest
as Yamashiro-no-Kami MunemuraProvincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to...
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Stolen Pleasure
as GoroBased on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe (and renowned...
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Kanto Wanderer
as Boss IzuHandsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it....
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Our Town
as ShimeIn 1906, after finishing a tough migrant job in the Philippines, Takichi has returned to Japan....
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Record of a Tenement Gentleman
as PhotographerAn errant salaryman's son gets lost until a man from the Tokyo tenements brings him to vendor...
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The School Cap
as uncreditedA Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its...
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The Homeless
as uncreditedTwo inmates are simultaneously released from jail, but go their separate ways, only to cross...
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Location
as InumaruThe melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized...
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The Boy Who Came Back
as детектив МацумотоNobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break...
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Lucky Dragon No. 5
as uncreditedAn ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of...
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On This Earth
as Yajiro, Heiichiro's uncle1957 drama from director Kôzaburô Yoshimura
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Dark Room
as Doctor(医師)A writer haunted by the death of his wife and threatened by the imagined infidelities of his...
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Bamboo Doll of Echizen
as MonkBased on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker...
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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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Tower of Lilies
as uncreditedA group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the...
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A Story from Echigo
as uncreditedA sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his...
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Hell Riders in Kyoto
as uncreditedThe rich punk Junya has only one thing in mind: to race with the police on his motorcycle. That...
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Day Dream
as GuardLoosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a...
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The Young and Bad
as uncreditedNot too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his...
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The Little Runaway
as uncreditedDuring a Soviet circus tour in Japan, a small street musician, Ken, meets a clown, Yuri Nikulin....
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Nuclear Gypsies
as uncreditedBarbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an...
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Actress
as uncreditedBased on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her...
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Until Evening
as Restaurant's OwnerIntellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin....
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Harbor Rats
as uncreditedA scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir...
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Whistling in the morning
as uncreditedMinoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with...
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Night Drum
as uncreditedFollowing a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited...
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Seasonal Wind
as uncreditedShinji, a young man who accidentally met a successful model, moves to Tokyo because of his...
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer
as ShimamuraRica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she...
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Captive's Island
as uncreditedSeeking revenge against the guard who tormented him, a young man returns to the island where he...
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The Ditch
as uncreditedToku, a factory worker gives food to a starving woman, Tsuru, who then follows him home. He...
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The Most Beautiful Day of My Life
as uncreditedLife and love in corrupt postwar Tokyo, as a young couple struggles against both the law and the...
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Afternoon Affair: Rear Window
as NomuraFor a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted...
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Darkness at Noon
as Uhei MatsumuraPolice beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based...
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Nippon no obaachan
as uncreditedTwo obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast...
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Murahachibu
as uncreditedA villager's family is ostracized after he makes an accusation of rigged elections
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Oiran
as HachibeiAyame, a courtesan, attracts the attention of street vendor Kisuke and decides to run away with...
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Tree Without Leaves
as uncreditedHaru, an aging scriptwriter, has isolated himself somewhere in the woods of Nagano to work on...
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Jazz Daimyo
as GensaiShipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve...
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Blind Devotion
as HikozoLate romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.
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Irezumi
as HoriatsuTo satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in...
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The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
as uncreditedTaro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with...
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Human
as KamegoroThe ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four...
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The End of a Day
as uncreditedMilitary doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl....
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The Kingpin of Fair Ladies
as uncreditedA man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle...
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The Human Wall
as uncreditedDrama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.
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The Erotomaniac Daimyo
as uncreditedKiyohime, a daughter of Tokugawa Ienari is married-off to Tadateru Ogura, the lord of a Kyushu...
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Miniature
as YamadaGinko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one...
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Internees of Kampili
as uncreditedIn the autumn of 1945, Petty Officer Tadashi Yamaji is among the numerous war crimes suspects...
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The Key
as uncreditedA college professor wants to bring the joys of sex to his frigid wife. He convinces his son in...
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Stray Dog
as uncreditedWhen his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is...
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Black Report
as Shinsaku TsudaAfter a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial...
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Wait for Tomorrow
as Inosuke UematsuKohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given...
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An Innocent Witch
as uncreditedAyako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her...
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Turtle Geisha
as IshibashiNatsuko is so good at using that super-strong vagina of hers that she can fuck guys to death. In...
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Sisters of Nishijin
as uncreditedA family of Kyoto textile workers struggles after tragedy.
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18 Roughs
as MurataExperienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the...
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The Beauty and the Dragon
as uncreditedKabuki adaptation: A princess, a figure from the literary past who anticipates a modern woman,...
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Case of the Disjointed Murder
as uncreditedIn the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the...
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The Battle of Kawanakajima
as Rokuzô ÔkumaThis epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story...
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Reminiscence
as uncreditedKazuo Miyagawa’s prizewinning black-and-white cinematography draws out the moral shadings of...
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限りなき情熱
as uncreditedIs it the sin of a woman's heart that casts ripples unexpectedly among peaceful people? In the...
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Hooligans on Buggies
as uncreditedRivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization.
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War and Flowers
as uncreditedJapanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.
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Who's The Real Killer
as FrankHarsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.
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Clothes of Deception
as KasamaThe story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist...
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The Start of Life
as uncreditedA young girl in an industrial town is saving her money to enter college. But her drunken father...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 3
as uncreditedPopular geisha Koharu suspects that Yusaku, a handsome stranger she falls in love with, is...
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Temptation
as uncreditedA young lawyer falls in love with the daughter of his former professor, whom he's hired to tutor...
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Fresh Leaves
as Zenkichi SegawaKeiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a...
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Tales of President Mito
as President ToyotomiMr. Mito, a former president of an instant food company, with two young men’s help, solves the...
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The Irresponsible Fool
as uncreditedPicked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate...
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The King
as uncreditedThe film takes place at the junction of the two eras of Meiji and Taisho. Sakata Sankichi, an...
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Onna no Iji
as Nakano2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good....
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Lost Sex
as GonpachiA well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima...
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Yokohama BJ Blues
as Isao HoriBJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much...
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Evil Spirits in the Darkness
as uncreditedThe film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo...
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The Desperate
as uncreditedA noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its...
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Love Lost in Tears
as uncreditedJapanese “kayo” film based on the song by "Namida koi" by Aki Yashiro.
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Hawaiian Dream
as Shokichi ShimamuraTatsuhiko and Shofumi are hoodlums living in downtown Hawaii, having flown out of Japan and...
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The Far Road
as uncreditedSet in the time of steam locomotives and covering a period of almost 30 years, this sensitive...
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The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
as MasumuraFormer boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow...
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Nezumi Kozo Jirokichi hissatsu no shiraha
as uncreditedA gripping and entertaining historical drama that follows the actions of the thief Nezumi Kozo...
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Ishimatsu of the Forest
as WaretsukuThe tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it...
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Deeper Than Blue
as ShunkaiAbout a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging...
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Daughter of Time
as Fireworks Hand 2A member of the jieitai ("Self-Defense Force"; i.e. Japanese military) is on leave and finds a...
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Eros Eterna
as uncreditedEros Eterna tells the story of a legendary immortal nun who wanders around encountering several...
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats
as uncreditedPart 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short...
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Season of Farewell
as uncreditedA touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.
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Golden Partners
as Bend masterA motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's...
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Attack at Daylight
as SaekiA truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web...
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Thousand Cranes
as uncreditedApril 1954. 12 year old schoolgirl Sadako thinks her main problem is being unable to pass the...
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Time Within Memory
as uncreditedMinoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old...
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Four Hours of Terror
as Teppei SasadaAirline captain saves passengers from a brutal murderer on a plane during four hours of terror.
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The Iron Crown
as PhysiognomistA woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the...
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Wind, Woman and Road
as KentaA chance meeting between two traveling gamblers leads to a case of mistaken identity when the...
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The Shadow of Fear
as uncreditedIn the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by...
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East China Sea
as uncreditedRokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the...
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Sakura-tai Chiru
as uncreditedA documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived...
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Policeman's Diary, Part 2
as uncreditedFrom runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.
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Kokoro no sanmyaku
as uncreditedA film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific...
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Rika 3: Juvenile's Lullaby
as ShimamuraReform schools are a way of protecting society by ridding it of lawless juvenile delinquents....
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Love and Faith
as uncreditedSen Rikyu is a ceremonial tea master who advises warlord Hideyoshi in sixteenth-century feudal...
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Today is Payday
as President of Akabane ConstructionOffice worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
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The Wolves
as uncreditedA group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of...
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The Seburi Story
as KamezoThe culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy...
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The Lucky Status Symbol
as uncreditedHiroshi (Tatsuo Umemiya) has the biggest penis in all of Japan and everyone who touches (or is...
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River of Fireflies
as uncreditedDuring the winter in Toyama in 1962, Tatsuo Mizushima is fretting about his feelings for his...
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Operation Negligee
as ZenzoAfter a mine collapses and leaves her husband employed, Fumiko moves to Kyoto with her daughter...
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Fifth Movement
as uncreditedWhen a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of...
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A Ghost Love Story of Japan
as uncreditedA daughter of Hatamoto (high-ranked soldier) Otsuyu (Akiko Kana) and a Ronin living in Choya...
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Story of a Beloved Wife
as uncreditedStory of a Beloved Wife is an autobiographical work based on Shindo's first marriage. Jūkichi...
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The Fall of Teenager
as uncreditedHigh school student Keiko struggles with the pressures of college entrance examinations and a...
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The Bored Samurai
as Father of OginSaotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in...
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Tetsugen
as uncreditedJapanese film based on the life of Zen Master Tetsugen Doko.
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A Woman’s Road
as uncreditedPoor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her...
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The Last Swordsman
as uncreditedPersonal tale of Okita Soji who fights to survive in a world without pity in the merciless era...
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Naked Resume: True Story of Kazuko Shirakawa
as IppeiNikkatsu Roman Porno
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Sixteen years old
as uncreditedSenko Tamagawa is a third-year junior high school student, and she is the captain of the...
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The Horizon
as TanimotoHideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt....
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Fearful Attack of the Flying Saucers
as Doctor OtsukiA 1956 alien invasion tokusatsu film directed by Shinichi Sekizawa, the screenwriter noted for...
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Hymn
as HarumatsuThe story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin,...
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Beyond the Green Hills
as uncreditedShinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance...
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The Betrayers Out!
as uncreditedShochiku's popular series of gang films, this one has the hero returning from prison bent on...
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Professional Sex Performers: A Docu-Drama
as Sex Show ManagerThe world of secret sex performers is shown through the lives of a husband and wife team. Their...
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The Heart
as uncreditedAdaptation of Natsume Soseki's classic novel in a modern setting.
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Spring Snow
as uncreditedThe Yoshikawa family is a typical small town family. With only the father's and daughter's...
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The House of the Sleeping Virgins
as uncreditedAbout an establishment where old men pay to sleep besides young girls that had been narcotized...
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The Revelation of a Geisha
as uncreditedAfter the bankruptcy of her foster-father's condom factory, Tamae sets out to make a living on...
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Mother
as TajimaA divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life...
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The Prickly Mouthed Geisha, Part 4
as KotaniA comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to...
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Irohanihoheto
as uncreditedThe anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano,...
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Child of the Sun
as uncreditedA couple originally from Okinawa run an inexpensive restaurant in Kobe, with their grade-school...
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Three Faces
as uncreditedFive years have passed since the three comrades who saved their lives on the Burma...
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Tomorrow Evening
as uncreditedAyako is a 7-year-old girl with a dark, tanned face and a somewhat mysterious expression on her...
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Jitsuroku Erogotoshitachi: Jungyô Hanadensya
as TonomuraFresh out of prison a manager of live sex shows decides to take his show on the road. He...
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Ohanahan
as 溝呂木老人The 6th NHK Asadora. Starring Fumie Kashiyama as a woman, born in the Meiji era, who raises a...
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Ai yori aoku
as 俊界和尚The 12th NHK Asadora. Set in Amakusa, Kumamoto Prefecture, at the end of the Pacific War. Maki...
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Against The Grain
as SoneEmployees of a security company from different generations and backgrounds confront many...
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A-Un
as uncreditedSenkichi Mizuta, a pharmaceutical company employee, and Shuzo Kadokura, a war profiteer, are...
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Kinagashi Bugyō
as uncreditedKoheita, a newly appointed magistrate, never shows his face in the magistrate's office, instead...
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