Fudeko Tanaka Movies

First film of a trilogy following the dramatic life of Rika, a half-Japanese/half-American woman who becomes the tough-as-nails leader of an all-girl...

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

Rambler Shinji arrives in town armed with nothing but a guitar. With assistance from an old gun-for-hire friend, he sets about to stop the mob from...

1950s Japanese drama.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...

Japanese drama film.

Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a...

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

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...

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

A film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a primary school before and after the Pacific War, set in Fukashima Prefecture.

A travelling theater troupe, led by Umagoro Ichikawa, comes to play in a mining town, and manages to sell every seat. Before the play begins,...

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

A comedy about two salarymen who routinely degrade themselves for their boss.