Taiji Tonoyama Movies

  • 1982
    Irezumi

    Irezumi

    Irezumi

    5.71982HD

    To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has...

    Irezumi
  • 1987
    Zegen

    Zegen

    Zegen

    6.41987HD

    At the time between the World Wars, Japan is involved in empire-building throughout East and Southeast Asia. After a brief career as a low-level milit...

    Zegen
  • 1962
    Akitsu Hot Springs

    Akitsu Hot Springs

    Akitsu Hot Springs

    6.51962HD

    Yoshida’s first big-budget production and colour film is a haunting tale of unrequited love and postwar disillusion. The story of the fatal attraction...

    Akitsu Hot Springs
  • 1983
    The Bored Samurai

    The Bored Samurai

    The Bored Samurai

    01983HD

    Saotome Mondonosuke is Hatamoto (a high-class warrior who is allowed to see the Shogun in person) who has a crescent-moon-shaped scar on his forehead...

    The Bored Samurai
  • 1981
    Day Dream

    Day Dream

    Day Dream

    3.91981HD

    Loosely based on a 1926 short story by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, the film opens as an artist and a young woman are in a dentist's waiting room. Though he i...

    Day Dream
  • 1983
    Legend of the Eight Samurai

    Legend of the Eight Samurai

    Legend of the Eight Samurai

    5.81983HD

    The evil Hikita clan rises from the dead to fulfill a curse on the Satomi clan by restoring the face of their warlord by using the skin of Princess Sh...

    Legend of the Eight Samurai
  • 1972
    Dear Summer Sister

    Dear Summer Sister

    Dear Summer Sister

    4.31972HD

    14-year-old Sunaoko travels from Tokyo to Naha, Okinawa, with her father’s young fiancée Momoko in search of her half-brother whom she has never met....

    Dear Summer Sister
  • 1954
    The Ditch

    The Ditch

    The Ditch

    71954HD

    Postwar Tokyo. Pin and Toku live in the squatter area of Kappanuma. Pin and Toku are avid gamblers. They take in Tsuru, a slightly demented woman who...

    The Ditch
  • 1963
    18 Roughs

    18 Roughs

    18 Roughs

    6.61963HD

    Experienced shipyard worker Shimazaki gets an offer of free lodging from his employer in the company seaside rest house if he agrees to see to its run...

    18 Roughs
  • 1972
    The Rendezvous

    The Rendezvous

    The Rendezvous

    6.31972HD

    The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.

    The Rendezvous
  • 1989
    Black Rain

    Black Rain

    Black Rain

    7.51989HD

    Shigematsu Shizuma, who lives with his family in a village near Fukuyama, was in Hiroshima with his wife and niece just after the devastating atomic b...

    Black Rain
  • 1970
    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!

    6.71970HD

    Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

    Live Today, Die Tomorrow!
  • 1959
    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love

    8.11959HD

    After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria...

    The Human Condition I: No Greater Love
  • 1953
    Gate of Hell

    Gate of Hell

    Gate of Hell

    7.1191953HD

    Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love with her, but...

    Gate of Hell
  • 1985
    Nuclear Gypsies

    Nuclear Gypsies

    Nuclear Gypsies

    41985HD

    Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon her...

    Nuclear Gypsies
  • 1972
    Hymn

    Hymn

    Hymn

    6.31972HD

    The story tells of the adoration of Sasuke for his mistress, the blind samisen-teacher Shunkin, who treats him imperiously and subjects him to cruel b...

    Hymn
  • 1971
    Silence

    Silence

    Silence

    7.21971HD

    Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

    Silence
  • 1960
    Irohanihoheto

    Irohanihoheto

    Irohanihoheto

    01960HD

    The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out...

    Irohanihoheto
  • 1959
    The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

    The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

    The Prickly Mouthed Geisha

    01959HD

    Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argum...

    The Prickly Mouthed Geisha
  • 1973
    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog

    Stray Dog

    71973HD

    When his pistol is stolen, police detective Murakami is humiliated, especially when the gun is later implicated in a crime. Working with his superior,...

    Stray Dog