Tatsuo Matsumura Movies

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...

1962 Japanese movie

Director Iwauchi Katsuki adapted this melodrama from Sasazawa Saho's award winning novel about two young lovers from different sides of the tracks...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

1961 Japanese movie

A drama film based on Ken Domon's photography of the children around the Chikuho coal mines.

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...

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his...

A war breaks out on the streets between rivaling Yakuza clans.

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.

A political satire comedy depicting the turmoil caused when the residents of a small island in Okinawa, feeling neglected by the Japanese...

On a quiet spring day in the suburbs, a stray dog found the corpse of a baby. Three days after his death, the blood group of the victim was...

Miyoko Sekiguchi, who works at a second-rate trading company, and car mechanic Koji Fukumoto are in love. The morning after Koji and Miyoko went out...

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...

Set in a juvenile detention center and depicted with a documentary touch.

In the 16th Year of Keityo (1611), the lord of Ogura Castle in Kyushu admitted Sasaki Kojiro's because of his great sword techniques. However, a...

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...