Chishū Ryū Movies

Tora-san spends several days at the home of a hard-working salaryman ("salaried worker"), who abruptly disappears. When the man's wife asks Tora-san...

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this...

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Torajiro becomes homesick during his travels after watching a television report about his hometown and meeting a young woman that reminds him of his...

After a friend and business colleague dies, Tora-san visits the man's daughter, then takes her to Tokyo so she can study for a night school exam.

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

A Chinese medical student named Gan Shosho finds himself cut off from his homeland as he is studying in Japan during the outbreak of the war. Despite...

Traveling salesman Kuruma Torajirō falls in love with an inn manager as New Year's approaches.

During his wandering throughout Japan, Tora-san meets a suicidal man. He travels with the man to Vienna, but winds up homesick for Japan.

With World War II is coming to its end and Japan nearing defeat, Japanese military leaders step up suicide attacks on Allied ships. Toei legend Koji...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

A headmaster and a novelist, looking for inspiration, regard a strange natural phenomenon before sharing stories of their own.

Tora-san helps out a runaway bride.

The tale of a feudal swordsman who cynically takes no responsibility for anything, relegating it to others, and then taking the credit.

Machiko Ujiie and Haruki Atomiya first meet and fall in love on Ginza’s Sukiyabashi Bridge during the Great Tokyo Air Raid in March 1945....

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.