Movies: Tsuruko Mano

  • 1954
    Seven Samurai

    Seven Samurai (1954)

    Seven Samurai

    8.51954HD

    A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers...

    Seven Samurai
  • 1954
    Godzilla

    Godzilla (1954)

    Godzilla

    7.61954HD

    Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Kyohei Yamane soon discover something far more devastating than imagined in the form of a 50 meter tall monster whom the natives call Go...

    Godzilla
  • 1956
    Rodan

    Rodan (1956)

    Rodan

    6.51956HD

    Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the mines. After an attack on the local village, Shigeru heads deeper into the mines only to make a more hor...

    Rodan
  • 1956
    Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

    Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956)

    Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

    6.61956HD

    During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, ...

    Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
  • 1962
    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin (1962)

    47 Ronin

    7.31962HD

    After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their honor....

    47 Ronin
  • 1954
    Late Chrysanthemums

    Late Chrysanthemums (1954)

    Late Chrysanthemums

    7.21954HD

    With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant portrait of a quartet of aging geishas contemplating their troubles with men and money....

    Late Chrysanthemums
  • 1955
    Floating Clouds

    Floating Clouds (1955)

    Floating Clouds

    7.71955HD

    A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes....

    Floating Clouds
  • 1954
    Sound of the Mountain

    Sound of the Mountain (1954)

    Sound of the Mountain

    7.41954HD

    An ingratiating bride develops warm ties to her father-in-law while her cold husband blithely slights her for another woman....

    Sound of the Mountain
  • 1953
    Wife

    Wife (1953)

    Wife

    71953HD

    Ten years into a marriage, the wife is disappointed by the husband's lack of financial success, meaning she has to work and can't treat herself and the husband finds the wife slovenly and mean-spirited: she neither cooks not cleans particularly well ...

    Wife
  • 1956
    The Storm

    The Storm (1956)

    The Storm

    91956HD

    A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone....

    The Storm
  • 1963
    Crazy Operation

    Crazy Operation (1963)

    Crazy Operation

    01963HD

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    Crazy Operation
  • 1954
    Last of the Wild Ones

    Last of the Wild Ones (1954)

    Last of the Wild Ones

    01954HD

    A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power....

    Last of the Wild Ones
  • 1950
    White Beast

    White Beast (1950)

    White Beast

    61950HD

    The critical establishment was clearly not prepared to accept a woman's prison film featuring former prostitutes recovering from venereal diseases, unwanted pregnancies, and estranged lovers. With its cat fights, hysterical tantrums, film noir lighti...

    White Beast
  • 1957
    Snow Country

    Snow Country (1957)

    Snow Country

    6.71957HD

    It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daughter of a local family, almost engaged to the fami...

    Snow Country
  • 1947
    Spring Awakens

    Spring Awakens (1947)

    Spring Awakens

    6.81947HD

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

    Spring Awakens
  • 1960
    The Secret of the Telegian

    The Secret of the Telegian (1960)

    The Secret of the Telegian

    5.81960HD

    Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims....

    The Secret of the Telegian
  • 1963
    Young Swordsman

    Young Swordsman (1963)

    Young Swordsman

    6.51963HD

    This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the law is unfair. His brother keeps his opinions about the law to himself. The swordsman vents his frustr...

    Young Swordsman
  • 1952
    The Skin of the South

    The Skin of the South (1952)

    The Skin of the South

    01952HD

    When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one end, they must contend with the local villagers who balk at the prospect of relocation; on the other, ...

    The Skin of the South
  • 1960
    Life of a Country Doctor

    Life of a Country Doctor (1960)

    Life of a Country Doctor

    01960HD

    A skilled country doctor's talents are such that he can even perform operations as difficult and novel as removing a patient's kidney for the first time in Japan. Unfortunately for him, however, his wife's addiction to gambling is of such a magnitude...

    Life of a Country Doctor
  • 1951
    The Blue Pearl

    The Blue Pearl (1951)

    The Blue Pearl

    01951HD

    The Blue Pearl depicts the interplay between a young man from Tokyo and two ama (pearl divers; literally “women of the sea”) in a superstitious coastal town. Though raised within the same tradition-bound crucible, the two women – Noe and Riu – are po...

    The Blue Pearl