Kunie Tanaka Movies

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

A gripping tale of friendship set against the backdrop of Hokkaido. Shinichi sets out to earn a few honest dollars with which to bail a friend out of...

During the Vietnam War, an American G.I. deserts his base in Japan and escapes to Tokyo with the help of his Japanese bar hostess girlfriend. In the...

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Tokiko Enomoto finds out that her husband Kazuya, who mostly lives at an apartment near his work while she and their children live at home, has been...

1864. Samurai Shinbei is sent in a secret mission to Ezo, in the North of Japan, to stop riots of villagers commanded by Jirozaemon. A Russian...

Based on the novel of the same name by Kenzo Kitakata.

An old man falls into a coma and dreams about his childhood during WWII.

Inspector Uno and college student Yuko Nagai are honored guests at an isolated village where 300 million yen mysteriously went missing and a deadly...

Set in the town of Furano in Hokkaido, Kita no Kuni Kara centers around the story of the Kuroita family. Narrated by the son, Jun, the tale follows...

Temari, a geisha, dreams of opening a small restaurant with her little brother.

Tora-san works hard to bring together his nephew, Mitsuo, and Mitsuo’s girlfriend who is engaged to someone else.

Based on Kazuo Taoka's autobiography, this film follows a Kobe gangster as he builds the small Yamaguchi-gumi into Japan's largest criminal clan.

Version of Proof of the Man (1977).

Eighth movie in the Torakku Yarō series

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

A man is inspired to build a hospital after his mother falls ill and becomes a host to swindle money out of women.

Yuzo Kayama is captain of the Fencing team and visits Brazil to work in the shipyards with his professor. There he meets his beautiful daughter (Mie...

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.