Tsuruko Mano Movies

Keiko Yukawa is a former prostitute and the newest inmate at White Lily, a female rehabilitation facility.

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

Okoma, a witty young woman working as a conductor in an old, rickety bus in Kōfu, Yamanashi (rural Japan), has a creative idea that could avert...

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Japanese war-era film

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

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

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

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan.

Salaryman comedy.

Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social...

An Ishiro Honda film.

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...