Eijirō Tōno Movies

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

Years after the death of legendary tea master Rikyu, his disciple Honkakubo attempts to resolve the mystery of the master's death.

Zatoichi comes upon the town of Tonda, overrun by gangsters. Using one of his favorite techniques, Zatoichi proceeds to win 8 ryo in a rigged...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

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...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

Japanese war film.

Legendary swordplay filmmaker Hideo Gosha's Sword of the Beast chronicles the flight of the low-level swordsman Gennosuke, who kills one of his...

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Nayoko, a good-hearted geisha, brings luck to the men she sleeps with, even though most are scoundrels who don’t deserve it.

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages...

Chuji Kunisada returns to his home village to find that Jubei Matsui, the corrupt magistrate, has been responsible for virtually destroying...

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

The fifth installment of ten in Nippon Ichi film series.

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

A 1960 crime film

A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.