Tsuruko Mano Movies

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

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...

Japanese war-era film

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is...

A Fond Face from the Past is also set in a rural community, specifically a village outside Kameoka, near Kyoto. In some ways this short,...