Most Popular Tatsuo Matsumura Trailers
Total trailers found: 98
15 September 1962
Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find a place to commit seppuku—and a worthy second to deliver the coup de grâce in his suicide ritual.
15 January 1997
Traveling chef Ryuji is called back to Tokyo to help save his late teacher’s restaurant. With the help of his close friend Kinu, Ryuji must complete the training of Wataru — the apprentice chosen by his late teacher to become the next master chef — in the art of culinary excellence and running a successful business.
27 January 1963
Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love.
11 July 1987
The story of a teacher who comes to a village on the Inland Sea and the relationship that develops between her and her 12 pupils.
12 August 1962
1962 Japanese movie
26 December 1962
1962 Japanese movie
22 August 1964
A story full of youthful vigor and spirit as high school students try to work out their problems, realize the awakening of love and growing maturity and find fun and happiness in helping others.
04 April 1961
A Hiromichi Horikawa movie
11 August 1962
The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist approach.
26 December 1964
Sabu was once a boy soldier but people in his village disliked him. He finally broke loose when his land was taken.
11 December 1960
A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's career, killing those who interfere.
27 January 1960
In a corner of a warehouse at Shiodome Station, a alumni trunk, is found with the terrible smell of decay.
20 November 1960
Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
13 August 1961
Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.
15 September 1962
Mie Nakao runs away from home to join her older sister's production company as a new talent. We follow her ups and downs on the way to stardom as she falls in love with two men, a petty thief and a music writer and teacher, and makes her way in the industry alongside The Peanuts and The Crazy Cats.
12 July 1968
Nabeshima Naoshige murders his lord, Ryuzoji Takafusa, seeking to gain power and steal his Lord’s wife.
13 April 1968
Police detectives investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.
23 November 1962
Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family.
28 July 1965
Japanese sex comedy film.
09 January 1961
Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother of the Otorigumi, returned from South America for the first time in 15 years.
13 November 1960
A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.
02 July 1983
Karate expert Katayama (Takeda) investigates the robbery of a bank in Hokkaido, where an apple seed left at the scene holds the answer to the robbers' whereabouts.
30 May 1969
The tragic, yet exciting story of the friendship between Nakayama Yasubei, a member of the 47 Ronin, and Tange Tenzen, a relative by marriage of the vile Lord Kira.
12 October 1991
Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother, but ultimately wins both the girl and his father's acceptance and support in a touching and refreshing way.
22 January 2000
A group of travelers is stranded in a small country inn when the river floods during heavy rains. As the bad weather continues, tensions rise amongst the trapped travelers.
08 September 1962
1962 Japanese movie
01 January 1992
In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques.
25 February 1967
A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.
01 May 1993
A close look at the inner workings of Japan's political underbelly.
09 September 1972
A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety.
03 October 1970
Gokudo goes politics. Gray-haired Bin Amatsu has Wakayama assist a politician, meaning trashing the opponent.
01 April 1991
An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent.
22 October 1994
Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death.
16 June 1963
Nine maids serve the household of a writer and his wife. The couple treat their maids like daughters and marry them off to eligible men.
12 April 1963
A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman Yamaoka, whose territory is in the Jonan district, in response to Kikuya, the head of the Asahina family, refusing to join the Syndicate.
27 May 1970
A film by Katsumi Iwauchi.
08 February 1961
Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.
16 November 1963
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
27 May 1967
The mother of a feudal lord's only heir is kidnapped by the lord. Her husband and his samurai father must decide whether to accept the unjust decision, or risk death to rescue her.
26 June 1963
When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they bargained for when the gigantic ape attacks an unsuspecting village and an enormous octopus.
12 March 1961
1961 Japanese movie
21 January 1962
1962 Japanese movie
15 September 2000
Screen icon Sayuri Yoshinaga stars in this historical melodrama about geishas in the southern city of Nagasaki set during the 1920s.
12 November 1966
Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one day at a time.
16 May 1965
Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arrested for murder.
17 April 1993
In postwar Tokyo, beloved writer-professor Hyakken Uchida retires and is buoyed through hardship by the fierce devotion of his former students, who honor him each year with a raucous “Not yet!” birthday toast.
10 November 2001
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years.
27 December 1981
The Story of Panda – Taotao, directed by Shuichi Nakahara and Tatsuo Shimamura, was the first animation produced as a Chinese-Japanese joint venture.
18 October 1967
1967 Japanese movie
03 May 1989
This is James Miki's first directorial work, and he is also the original writer and scriptwriter. Noritaka Sakamoto was in charge of photography, and Kentaro Haneda was in charge of music direction.
27 August 1977
A scruffy detective investigates the murders of three sisters on a small Japanese island in 1946.
02 September 1995
A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese government's response, declare independence.
30 December 1967
Ichi is staying at an inn when a woman dies. Her dying wish is that Ichi take her son to his father, an artist living in a nearby town.
29 April 1972
A man who survived the war carries the will of his comrades in arms, walking across the country visiting the bereaved families.
31 October 1970
On a Tokyo dump’s shantytown edge, interwoven vignettes follow residents scraping by: a boy who “drives” an imaginary trolley, a homeless father and son designing a dream house, a young woman brutalized at home, drunks, schemers, and saints of small kindnesses.
29 April 1964
Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness.
20 October 1962
1962 Japanese movie