Tsuruko Mano Movies

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

An Ishiro Honda film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

Japanese war-era film

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...