Yoshiko Tanaka Movies

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Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Taking place thirty years before the events of Ringu, Ringu 0 provides the shocking background story of how the girl on the video became a deadly,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Yukie Nakama

High school student Asako moves all of her belongings to the refuse area of her apartment complex and stops attending school. Kazuyoshi, a precocious...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aya Ueto

Tokutaro is an orphan child who becomes a street candy vendor. He sells candies, humming a song he learned long ago from his mother. One day he met...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tsumasaburō Bandō

After the previous Godzilla attack, a miniature arms race ensues to collect his cells. Concerned over Godzilla's possible return, the Japanese...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kunihiko Mitamura

A railway stationmaster at a dying end-of-the-line village in Hokkaido is haunted by memories of his dead wife and daughter. When the railroad line...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A retired actress whose husband has recently died visits her summer home. There she has encounters with old friends and acquaintances who bring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Haruko Sugimura

Shinku is a compelling drama that focuses on the strange relationship that develops between two people who find their lives irrevocably changed as a...

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Cast: Rina Uchiyama

Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

This is a true story about the "Chichibu Incident," which is said to be the only revolution in Japan.

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Cast: Miki Fujitani

Chotaro and Nakanishi, a duo of unemployed advertisers, drifted to Isehama, a port town near Yokohama, but a gang was making its presence felt in the...

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Cast: Chosuke Ikariya

Mothra's dark counterpart, Battra, emerges to eliminate humanity on behalf of the Earth. Two tiny fairies called the Cosmos offer their help by...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Bessho

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomokazu Miura

The story is based on the bestselling autobiography of 25-year-old Rie Saito, who became a number-one hostess in Ginza despite being deaf. "Hitsudan...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Kitagawa

The story of a bus conductor who dedicates his life to the cherished Japanese symbol.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Saburo Shinoda

In the early morning of January 17, 1995, the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake struck, and Tadao Furuichi (Hidekazu Akai), who was running a camera...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidekazu Akai

On April 9, 2000, Suzuki Kyoko receives a phone call from the police. She learns that her 19-year-old son and his friend were killed by a drunk...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

Watanabe Kazuma's younger brother is brutally murdered by Kawai Matagoro. However, Kazuma's vendetta is denied since the Japanese law in the 17th...

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Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Heartwarming human drama about a former tap dancer who trades in his tap shoes to woo a figure skating instructor. But by a twist of fate, he finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rosa Kato

The sisters lived near a pond called Koigafuchi, near Edo, and kept a father-and-son cat named Tama and Kaze. The elder sister, Oichi, was discovered...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

Three women who share memories of the Hiroshima disaster try to uncover the hidden family ties that may or may not bind them together.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

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Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masatoshi Nakamura

An art school student and an artist find love but soon must face a painful struggle.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kyoko Fukada

Surrounded by violence for as long as he can remember, Ryoudo Numata has steeled himself into a tremendously tough man, growing to become the very...

Genre: Action

Cast: Sonny Chiba

Yumechiyo, a geisha house madam recently diagnosed with a terminal illness, yearns to do something constructive with the little time she has left....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Ōhara

The story of Czech architect Jan Letzel, who designed the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima

Genre: History

Cast: Viktor Preiss

Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mika Mifune

Yoshinori sells plots of land in a cemetery, and is involved in a stale ten-year-old marriage with bored housewife Atsuko. When Atsuko makes a male...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kaoru Kobayashi

Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuji Miyake

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yuji Miyake

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yoshiko Tanaka

A remake of the 1953 film of the same name.

Genre: War

Cast: Komaki Kurihara

A Japanese Class B war criminal sets out to take full responsibility for the execution of American Airmen.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Makoto Fujita

Starring Ken Takakura, this TV special depicts a detective (Akira Hayasaka) who lives in a harsh life with pride and conviction. Minoru Akiba, Chief...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ken Takakura