Taisaku Akino Movies

In Osaka, Shiromiya will soon turn 40 years old and he is unemployed. He lives with his daughter Yoyoko who is 5-years-old. Yoyoko has a secret. One...

Masanao Ushio and other detectives from Shinjuku West PD discover the strangled dead body of a woman in an empty building in West Shinjuku in Tokyo....

Goro is an archeologist, fascinated with the national treasure Gassho clay figure and remains from the Jomon period. He meets a woman, Momoko who is...

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

The Japanese pop music duo Pink Lady are circus performers who show kindness toward a captured "monster," a sad, furry being (played by a man in a...

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...

Nakazo is forced by his foster mother, Shun, to practice dance intensively. He is bullied in the Kabuki world, and worries about his future as an...

Two assassins are hired to carry out a hit on the second wife of a candle merchant, but someone is watching...

While Sakura and Hiroshi struggle to save funds to build a house, Torajiro befriends three young women on vacation during his travels.

An assignment is issued to a lady sniper to destroy the mafia.

The romance between a young girl and a much older salaryman.

A college graduate, a gutless office worker and a crunchy yakuza live together from a slight misunderstanding.

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian who teams up with a strange man he...

When Tora-san returns to visit his family, he is surprised to find an arrogant professor occupying his room. The professor and Tora-san become rivals...

This is the DVD version of the TV show, which consists of a single video that plays the first and last episodes of the tv show bridged by an edit...