Fudeko Tanaka Movies

Tadashi Imai 1946 movie

One of Sayuri Yoshinaga's first leading roles.

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of...

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

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...

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow.

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.

Let's Go, Grandma! plays like an exuberant, goofy update to Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story. Kinuyo Tanaka plays the titular Grandma, who, after selling...

As a bid to win contacts, ship building companies wine and dine political leaders, inviting the geisha Hidekoma and Hidechiyo to entertain the...

Yasuichiro Isa, who works in the labor section of Sone Mining Tokyo Headquarters, paid a monthly fee for his younger brother, Reiji, who was in...

A small community in wartime Japan learn how to make do with less.

A story of a servant girl whose life is upturned by her doomed love for a spineless young man.

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...