Fudeko Tanaka Movies

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

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...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

1950s Japanese drama.

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...

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

A Japanese version of the musical comedy "Yes, Mr. Brown"

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

Japanese drama film.

1958 Japanese movie

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

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

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.