Chishū Ryū Movies

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

After a quarrel with his mother, Torajiro sets off to find a bride.

A tribute to the legendary Japanese film director featuring the reflections of filmmakers Lindsay Anderson, Claire Denis, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Aki...

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....

After Hiroshi is injured in a workplace accident, Torajiro gives Sakura the money he has saved and leaves to work as a traveling salesman once again....

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san...

The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...

Episode in the life of a composer of a popular Japanese song.

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

In Part I we see the young would-be swordsman setting out to achieve greatness in war, achieving nothing because fighting on the losing side, & then...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932

Kempeitai fights American spies in Japan

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

Tora-san's nephew Mitsuo is exchanging letters with Izumi, a former classmate whose parents divorced and took her out of Tokyo.