Shinji Tanaka Movies

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

A harsh young man seduces a freeloading young woman and eventually takes advantage of her knack for hitchhiking to rob middle-class men.

In a time of continuous civil wars ravaging the fields of feudal Japan, the eldest son of a very poor peasant family, living alongside the bridge...

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her...

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was...

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...

On the way back to his childhood home, a septuagenarian man recalls his childhood and adolescence, in particular his love for a young woman.

A beautiful tale of teacher-student love between a pure-hearted female teacher and a group of wild boys unfolds on the banks of a river in a mountain...

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

This story depicts how a once-famous married couple of manga artists refused to be defeated by their current poverty.

Poverty-stricken sisters reach the age when they start attracting marriage proposals. They must decide between marrying for love or money, but their...

When a wealthy, selfish family decides to take care of an elderly hobo who collapsed near their home, they are beset by visits from his numerous...

A father curries favor with his bosses to further his career, but his wife has lost faith in him. She returns to her family home while they rent out...

Amidst the 1960 Japanese-American mutual security treaty, alienated young nihilist Takuya struggles to find his footing between his do-nothing wealth...

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

Two outsiders start a relationship in a mining town.

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.