Shinji Tanaka

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...

1962 Japanese movie

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was...

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

Japanese film.

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

Poverty-stricken sisters reach the age when they start attracting marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money, but their...

Japanese drama film.

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her...

1961 Japanese movie

1966 Japanese movie

This story depicts how a once-famous married couple of manga artists refused to be defeated by their current poverty.

A beautiful tale of teacher-student love between a pure-hearted female teacher and a group of wild boys unfolds on the banks of a river in a mountain...