Orie Satō

It's Tough Being a Man

The original TV Drama series the famous Tora film series was based on.

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Fifth Movement

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members ref...

Nurse's Husband

“Quit working as a nurse!” “All right, I will!” thus began the married life of Yasuo and Keiko. But the reality...

The Fossil

An industrialist is diagnosed with terminal cancer. He is abroad in Europe at the time, and a glimpse of a Japa...

A Human Promise

An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back i...

Tora-san's Cherished Mother

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

Comedy actors: Cooper and Gable

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian...

Kobayashi Takiji

A tribute to proletarian author Takiji Kobayashi (1903-1933)

Young People

"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents,...

Love Stopped the Runaway Train

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Swimming Upstream

One day after school, Kaoru glances at Sonoko at the pool side. He falls in love with her at first sight and de...

The Skies of Haruo

1977 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

Banner of the Young

The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons that life t...

The Day the Sun Rose

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan,...

It's Tough Being a Man (Television Drama DVD Edit Edition)

This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes...

Forward, Young People!

The second film tells about the life of matured brothers and sister Sato. Taro became a foreman. He saves every...

When We are Old

An old man has to move to his son's new house. His wife is hospitalized and cannot move together. A few days af...

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16-Sai no Marine Blue

A film by Akiyoshi Imazeki. Emi is a 16-year-old girl who lives in Enoshima. An adolescent movie depicting teen...

The Pale Hand