Tsuruko Mano Movies

An Ishiro Honda film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

1962 Japanese movie

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Following Flower Picking Diary (1939), Tamizo directed another film starring Hideko Takamine, based on a story by Nobuko Yoshiya. Takamine plays a...

Japanese war-era film

The only son of a sushi chef hates sushi and decides to leave home to search for a job and make his own way.