Chishū Ryū Movies

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.

After the plans of a group of college students to cheat on their final exams goes awry, they're left to reassess their lives and educations and get...

When a young man inherits his father's lucrative business, he cheats the system to set up three of his college friends with jobs.

Biographical film about bacteriologist Dr. Hideyo Noguchi.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

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

After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he...

When Izumi can't stand seeing her mother flirt with other men, she leaves home. She sends a letter to Mitsuo and Mitsuo goes looking for her. But...

In 1730, the Tokugawa Shogunate orders the Yagyu Clan to repair a huge shrine. Since it cannot refuse the Shogunate's request, the impoverished Yagyu...

This 150-minute documentary, directed by Nobuhiko Ôbayashi on the set of Akira Kurosawa's Dreams, features behind-the-scenes footage and...

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house....

Tora-san gets into an argument with his uncle and sets out on the road again. In Kyushu he meets a young woman named Keiko and the shy zoologist...

A 1948 Japanese film.

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

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

Taking a message from Hiroshi's father to heart, Torajiro attempts to give up his wandering ways.

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.