Eijirō Tōno Movies

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

Part one of The Masterless 47.

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

The Story of the three Japanese castaways Otokichi, Kyukichi and Iwakichi. After their ship the Hojunmaru was damaged, they drifted to America and...

Japanese drama film.

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's...

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama....

The Glorious Days

Japanese war movie.

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

1951 Japanese movie

In postwar Japan a young woman is unable to marry her sweetheart because her family's in difficult circumstances and needs her income to keep afloat.

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...

The struggles of a low-ranking samurai (Nakamura) coming to terms with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the end of Japan's feudal age with the...

The last judgment.

1950 Toho film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Part one of Shin Saburi's Theater of Life adaptation.

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...