Tatsuo Matsumura Movies

Tora-San returns to Shibamata just before his family leaves on a trip for Kyushu. Later, he encounters an old school chum and begins to have feeling...

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese sex comedy film.

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Director Iwauchi Katsumi adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.

1962 Japanese movie

Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s. Though she was...

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

1962 Japanese movie

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Industrial espionage in the pharmaceutical industry. Also know in English as “Black Parking Lot”.

A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.