Haruo Tanaka Movies

The rise of the famed gambler.

A ghost interrupts the journey of two young noblemen who are disguised as merchants.

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Makino Masahiro film starring Okada Mariko

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Finding more freedom on the high seas than in war-torn Japan, the 'Bahansen' (Pirate ships) based on the Seto Inland Sea during the Warring Period...

It is the Taisho era in Japan. A man has quit the Yakuza after five years and returned to Shikoku in order to begin his life anew as a ferryman. His...

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

The story of two young men whose ambition is to become the personal bodyguards to the Shogun's uncle, Lord Mito Komon. Portrayed by a pair of up and...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Japanese drama film.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

Eight villains, former pirates, gather to attack the magistrate's office. They develop a plan and begin their actions in secret, making full use of...

Jirocho and his henchmen befriend Ishimatsu, a wanderer in Mishima.