Haruo Tanaka Movies

Lavish Japanese-Chinese coproduction based on an ancient Chinese legend about a man who falls in love with a snake goddess in human form.

This is one of the many films based on the legend of Chuji Kunisada, a wandering gambler and a defender of the weak in the Edo period. In other...

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

A 1942 film.

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.

While working in an education center for lonely children, a mother seeks her missing son.

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

This is the story of a bad man who re-discovering humanity via woman and child while clashing with the yakuza and being hunted by a man called...

Young Sentaro struggles to avenge the murder of his younger sister Osuga and their father.

Young coal miner Takeda leaves Kyushu in search of a better job in Tokyo, only to fall into the lucrative yet dangerous life of a yakuza.

1945 Japanese movie

The continuing adventures of the Jirocho gang.

Machiko falls in love with a mysterious man, but her family wants something different for her.

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young...

From the opening theme song to the grand finale, you know that you have found something special as this exciting movie stars the great Misora Hibari...

Mine, the only daughter of Kiyagen, is faced with running the family's timber business when her father falls ill. Under a great deal of pressure to...

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura