Taizō Fukami Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her...

A geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto feels obliged to help her lover when he asks to stay with her after going bankrupt and leaving his wife....

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the...

A dangerous mobster threatens the life of a businessman's mother in this thriller. As Ryuji oversees the building of a bridge in Japan, a powerful...

A novice city-based teacher's first assignment is to a fishing village's grade school. The young teacher's first week with her new students is...

In post-war Japan, Michiko, a disillusioned young woman trapped in a loveless marriage, confides in her younger cousin, Tsutomo, and the two become...

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

AKA Family of Women. A story about a wealthy family and the greed and selfishness of three daughters and relatives, after the passing of their old...

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Based on the story "Phantom Castle" by Hitomi Takagaki.

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Based on the story "Phantom Castle" by Hitomi Takagaki.

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major...

Based on the story "Phantom Castle" by Hitomi Takagaki.

The premature death of a young mother serves as inspiration for her husband and son.

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base...