Haruo Tanaka Movies

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

Adaptation of a novel by Yojiro Ishizaka, originally released in two parts.

The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.

Chie (Sanae Ōhori), newly arrived in Tokyo, saves her friend from school, Mari (Annu Mari), from a suicide attempt. The two girls become close,...

Directed by Daisuke Itō.

One of Japan's most enduring stories is the true-life yakuza boss Jirocho of Shimizu and his gang as they took over the Tokaido Highroad and went on...

The story is based on the life of a poet who lived in Japan in the Taisho era. When her fiancé is arrested she believes he has suddenly...

Japanese film.

The rise of the famed gambler.

A kindhearted wandering gambler named Hajiro gets involved in a crisis of a village as he passes through and decides to lend a sword in hopes to...

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

A romance with political overtones about the relationship of a sheltered bourgeois woman and a doctor who devotes himself to caring for the poor....