Jirō Tamiya Movies

Nishi is an advertising executive for a caramel company that is planning to launch a new product, in fierce competition with two other companies.

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...

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she...

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

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older...

Namiko gets a crush on Ishizuka, a young CEO of a nightclub, but he was plotting to destroy her husband’s company by greenmail.

A series of ghastly murders are being committed. The one similarity in each of the murders is that a strange buzzing sound is always heard right...

Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.

The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the...

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

The story contrasts the life of two doctors, former classmates and now both assistant professors at Naniwa University Hospital in Osaka. The...

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and...

A coming-of-age story that depicts the crisis of love in marital life in a light-hearted way, centering on the family of a young scholar whose young...

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women...

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man.