Akira Tani Movies

Based on the story "Actress and Poet" ("Joyu to shijin") by Minoru Nakano.

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Period romantic drama.

Based on a novel by Kôen Hasegawa

Tonii is an aspiring world-class inventor who has sold off his parents’ estate and mansion and was now continuing his research in a shed tucked...

Japanese crime film

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

1962 Japanese movie

Every year, at the festival, familiar merchants such as Toraemon, a magic trick, Tokubei, a blowgun, Kaji, acrobatics, and Unsaibo, a ritual, gather...

After a promotion brings new professional challenges, a diligent employee is pulled into corporate matchmaking and a high-stakes business conflict...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

Thriller about a narcotics investigator uncovering a dope ring.

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.