Nobuko Tanei Movies

When the wife of a 17th-century Kyoto scrollmaker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...

A series of murders surrounds the 70,000 ryō in buried treasure hidden by the Kanayama Magistrate.

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly...

Fleeing a distressing family situation, Eiko, a very young girl, becomes an apprentice to Miyoharu, a veteran geisha. Both, determined to preserve...

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...

The story follows Oshino, a geisha who is trying to start a new life with a lover who is a painter. However, her past filled with debts and pimps...

A 1961 film directed by Yoshiyuki Kuroda.

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival.

A story of aristocratic star-crossed love.

Early film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Second in the Nage Utasamon series

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō.

First in the Nage Utasamon series

In the heart of the Japanese Alps, in Kamikochi, Nagano Prefecture, botany professor Kazuhiko Onuma spends time with Tsuruko, his lover. One night,...