Movies: Haruko Mabuchi

  • 1988
    Tomorrow

    Tomorrow (1988)

    Tomorrow

    7.51988HD

    On August 9, 1945, the Americans dropped an atomic bomb on Nagasaki. This film, based on a story by Mitsukaru Inoue, describes the daily life of people in Nagasaki the day before that fateful event. It presents the human drama of people's lives, and ...

    Tomorrow
  • 1982
    Tora-san, the Expert

    Tora-san, the Expert (1982)

    Tora-san, the Expert

    8.51982HD

    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 Saburō, and attempts to play matchmaker between the two when they all return to Tokyo....

    Tora-san, the Expert
  • 1970
    Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi

    Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi (1970)

    Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi

    4.51970HD

    Japanese animation adaptation of a 19th century French novel: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling performer....

    Little Remi and Famous Dog Capi
  • 1961
    A Wife Confesses

    A Wife Confesses (1961)

    A Wife Confesses

    6.71961HD

    Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession....

    A Wife Confesses
  • 1975
    Preparation for the Festival

    Preparation for the Festival (1975)

    Preparation for the Festival

    5.71975HD

    Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in....

    Preparation for the Festival
  • 1981
    Yokohama BJ Blues

    Yokohama BJ Blues (1981)

    Yokohama BJ Blues

    7.21981HD

    BJ is a relatively unknown blues singer who scraps some bars in Yokohama. He does not earn much with it and to make ends meet he also acts as a private detective....

    Yokohama BJ Blues
  • 2001
    A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River

    A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River (2001)

    A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River

    62001HD

    The story opens with Yukiko and her business partner in Moscow searching for Russian items for their store in Tokyo. There they meet a Russian translator, Nicholai, played by Sergei Nakariakov - a trumpeter from Russia. Some months later after they ...

    A Single Drop of Water in a Mighty River
  • 2003
    Pretty Woman

    Pretty Woman (2003)

    Pretty Woman

    02003HD

    Elderly ladies rise to the challenge of staging a play and struggle to launch a theater company. Based on the actual amateur theater company "Theatrical Company Hono" in Fujieda City, Shizuoka Prefecture, where the presiding officers and performers ...

    Pretty Woman
  • 1988
    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You (1988)

    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You

    5.71988HD

    A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful passion for the music, giving him a chance to set things right in his life....

    Kaisha monogatari: Memories of You
  • 1996
    The Trap

    The Trap (1996)

    The Trap

    6.81996HD

    When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified....

    The Trap
  • 1954
    Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

    Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi (1954)

    Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi

    01954HD

    Fukagawa's chef Ushimatsu of the restaurant Kawatake fell in love with a maid named Omame and changed dramatically. He stopped gambling and womanizing much to the surprise of his friends. As their wedding day approached, Minosuke who had long been in...

    Hatsu sugata ushimatsu gōshi
  • 1980
    Until Evening

    Until Evening (1980)

    Until Evening

    01980HD

    Intellectual collegue professor Sasa becomes obsessed with beautiful Sugiko, a virgin. Eventually, luring her to a love hotel....

    Until Evening
  • 1989
    Festival of Dreams

    Festival of Dreams (1989)

    Festival of Dreams

    01989HD

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    Festival of Dreams
  • 1954
    Women's House

    Women's House (1954)

    Women's House

    01954HD

    After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an ol...

    Women's House
  • 2000
    Oshimai no hi

    Oshimai no hi (2000)

    Oshimai no hi

    02000HD

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    Oshimai no hi
  • 1995
    Ruby Fruit

    Ruby Fruit (1995)

    Ruby Fruit

    41995HD

    Maiko is a recently widowed young woman travelling to Bali to distract herself from the loss of her husband, Esau. At the airport she meets Kioko, who gives her a dagger and a photo of a woman. She tells Maiko she must find the woman, Shireni, in Bal...

    Ruby Fruit
  • 1975
    The River of the Stranger

    The River of the Stranger (1975)

    The River of the Stranger

    01975HD

    A rare film about the Zainichi and the relations between Japan and South Korea. It is the first feature film ever directed by a zainichi director to explore these issues....

    The River of the Stranger
  • 1998
    Watching the Detective

    Watching the Detective (1998)

    Watching the Detective

    41998HD

    A young detective is assigned to stake out the apartment of an elderly woman. He sets up his video camera and monitor in an empty room opposite hers-and watches....

    Watching the Detective
  • 1996
    Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

    Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You (1996)

    Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You

    01996HD

    A difficult request brought to the unlicensed genius surgeon Black Jack. It was supposed to be born as twins, but it was an operation to separate what had been taken into another body. The second in a series depicting the episode of the birth of Pino...

    Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You