Haruo Tanaka Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out...

1968 film

The rise of the famed gambler.

The first film in the Daiei series. At the command of Lord Aiba, Tange Sazen targets two famous swords owned by Onozuka Tessai.

A young lord lives against the will of his father Lord Tokugawa.

Taisuke is kind-hearted but overall lacks ambition. Taizo is smarter, but given to fits of emotion and impulsive violence. The samurai brothers fight...

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

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls...

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

A 1942 film.

Set in the Sengoku period, Tokugawa vassal Yakurota (Kenichi Enomoto) helps the older sister and twin sister of the Matsudaira family who are in love...

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.

A young, feisty woman named Osome searches for her true love in the midst of a family crisis.