Eijirō Tōno Movies

The Glorious Days

Bittersweet shomin-geki drama by Keigo Kimura

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...

In 1943, critical developments in the Pacific War have placed Japan at a disadvantage, although the fiery breaths of war hadn't yet reached Okinawa...

1962 Japanese movie

The story of a novelist whose wife is confined in a mental hospital. His love for her drives him to write about her, though he runs into trouble when...

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

With her family suffering from extreme poverty, Yuko, as the eldest daughter, is sold to a successful brothel in Kyoto. There she is assigned to...

A 1960 crime film

Part one of The Masterless 47.

1959 youth comedy.

After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter...

From the late 1500's through the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate many battles were fought as the great warlords vied for power over the nation....

1952 Japanese movie

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.