Eijirō Tōno Movies

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

A sake factory worker on holiday returns to his home town, where he rapes the wife of one of his co-workers in the forest. The other man returns home...

Japanese comedy film.

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

Japanese war movie.

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Japanese drama.

In the year 1786, Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa selected beautiful Ochisa to be his concubine. It causes other concubines to become very jealous and mean....

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

1959 youth comedy.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

In this Japanese drama, a dry goods merchant's daughter is surprised to discover that she has a twin sister. In rural Japan it was thought that twins...