Nobuko Tanei Movies

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

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...

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

First in the Nage Utasamon series

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

Suzunosuke visits a martial arts master and tries to learn the 'Vacuum Slash,' a secret technique of producing tornadoes.

A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.

Second in the Nage Utasamon series