Fudeko Tanaka Movies

1981 Japanese film based on the novel by Naoshiro Yoshimoto.

Mega star Akira Kobayashi stars as Jiro in the rambunctious tale of a chef who opens a restaurant in the busy Ginza district. His culinary skills and...

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

1962 Japanese movie

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

Japanese drama film.

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

Keisuke and Shizuko grew up by the Kitakami river and came to fall in love before they knew it. Eighteen years ago, Shizuko was left an orphan and...

A female college student who started a part-time job taking care of a bedridden elderly person notices an eerie cry from the basement.

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

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

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

The film depicts a group of boys and girls who graduate from a local junior high school and head to Tokyo to find employment, and the teachers who...