Chieko Misaki

Mizuiro no toki

The 15th NHK Asadora. Starring Shinobu Otake in a story about a young woman striving to become a doctor and her...

Yume ni Mita Hibi

The story follows Yonemura Hiroko, a bank clerk reeling from the betrayal of her lover, who is engaged to anoth...

Love Story

Sudo Misaki, an editor with misgivings about her professional and private life, is assigned to Nagase Koh, a po...

The Yellow Handkerchief

A convict, newly released from prison for murder, joins two strangers on a road trip through Hokkaido to visit...

Hanashite yo itsumo no you ni

Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and sh...

Tora-san, My Uncle

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took h...

Marriage Counselor Tora-san

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old a...

Tora-san, Our Lovable Tramp

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with...

Tora-san's Love in Osaka

When his travels bring him to Osaka, Tora-san falls in love with a local geisha. He helps her to track down her...

Where Spring Comes Late

The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who sudd...

Talk of the Town Tora-san

After a chance encounter with Hiroshi's father on a bus, Tora decides to get serious and reflect on the mortali...

A Trap

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty,...

Tora-san, the Expert

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman...

Tora-san Plays Daddy

A playboy-gambler friend of Tora-san’s dies and, abandoned by his mother, his little boy suddenly turns up in S...

Break Down that Wall

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Jungle Block

A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister...

Tora-san's Lullaby

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to wo...

Tora-san's Sunrise and Sunset

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was emba...

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shiba...

The Sea of Eden

Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear f...

Tora-san's Love Call

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Endless Desire

Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to di...

Tora-san Goes Religious?

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the lo...

Song of Farewell

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in th...

Love in Ginza

Hanjiro is a struggling painter that shares a tiny apartment in the back streets of Ginza with his jazz pianist...

Tora-san, the Good Samaritan

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

Tora-san's Pure Love

When Tora-san's infatuation with his nephew's school teacher causes family turmoil, he leaves on his travels ag...

Tora-san, the Go-Between

In Nagasaki, Tora-san and an acquaintance help an old woman who has fallen and injured herself. She invites the...

Sun and Stars

It's a thrilling, action-packed entertainer with sparks of men versus villains in an up-and-down tale of brothe...

Tora-san's Runaway

After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his...

Tora-san's Forbidden Love

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappea...

Tora-san Takes a Vacation

Mitsuo goes to Nagoya to visit Izumi, whose father left Izumi’s sad, bar hostess mother for another woman, so t...

Fresh Leaves

Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she d...

Tora-san to the Rescue

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

Tora-san's Song of Love

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew)...