Akira Tani Movies

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Tells the story of Shintaro, a lawyer who quits his job to work at a camera factory, and his love adventures.

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

The first of eight "Three Dolls" features. In this entry the girls, students at Nichinan University, balance studying for the final exams while...

Comedy movie

1962 Japanese movie

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...

Period romantic drama.

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

Teacher Miyako Hanai, disillusioned by her sisters’ unhappy marriages, rejects love until family conflicts and her mother’s unexpected...

1953 Hiroshi Inagaki movie.