Tomoko Fumino

Marriage Counselor Tora-san (1984)

In Shibamata, Tokyo, Tora-san's family prepares for a wedding. Meanwhile, the traveling Tora-san meets an old acqaintance in Iwate Province. Tora-san refuses to drink with him, afraid that the acquaintance, now settled and married, will again become attrac ...

Fighting Against The Incurable Disease Aplastic Anemia – Now You Are In The Light (1978)

Film distributed by ATG. ...

Main Line to Terror (1975)

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan Nation ...

Hakuchô no uta nanka kikoenai (1972)

Young man and woman experience changes in their worldview and question the meaning of life after meeting a dying grandfather. ...

Wicked Nun (1971)

Kaihei shi-gō seito (1971)

Take Care, Red Riding Hood (1970)

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself. ...

A Thousand and One Nights (1969)

Aldin, a vagabond water vendor, embarks of a series of fantastical and tragic misadventures through the Middle East in search of love, fortune, and power. ...

A Wanderer's Notebook (1962)

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, o ...

Stakeout (1958)

Two detectives begin a stakeout based on the slim chance of catching a murderer whom they suspect will try to reunite with an old flame. ...

An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in. ...

Yassamossa (1953)

Modern People (1952)

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subord ...

New Snow (1942)

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but ju ...

Nightingale (1938)

An episodic film about life in and around a rural police station and the people it serves. ...