Movies: Tomoko Naraoka
- 2004
Half a Confession (2004)
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Half a Confession introduces itself as a thriller and abruptly changes gears, transforming into a tale of morality with deeper insights into its characters than we had anticipated. It begins when Soichiro Kaji (Terao), a retired detective, walks into...
- 2001
The Firefly (2001)
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Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was a suicide pilot during the war who somehow survived Japan's surrender. After decades of working as a ...
- 2014
300 Million Yen Robbery (2014)
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- 1969
Ruthless Gambler (1969)
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Unlike traditional gangster movies, it is a gangster swashbuckler that mixes romance and humanity with a yakuza lover as the main character. A young man who heard that his former boss was killed is imprisoned by slashing his family's minions, and his...
- 1955
The Heart (1955)
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In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained relationship stemming from an unknown incident in their past....
- 1970
Gambling Den Desire (1970)
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In a small town on the Kasumigaura coast in the early Showa period, the Masukawa clan from Tokyo is trying to take away the interests of the local Isetoku family. Setsuko, the adopted daughter of the Isetoku family, falls in love with Seijiro, a trav...
- 1991
War and Youth (1991)
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An auto repairman's daughter questions him about what happened to her aunt during the war, but the father remains reticent. Finally the man opens up, and the girl is able to piece together her aunt's tragic story....
- 1966
I'll Never Cry! (1966)
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The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees...
- 1964
The Flame of Devotion (1964)
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The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of war....
- 1969
Gambler's Dilemma (1969)
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The love story between a traveling guest and a geisha who inadvertently becomes the leader of her father's yakuza clan, after his death....
- 2013
Izakaya Moheji 2 (2013)
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A small, out-of-the-way izakaya in Tokyo has become the favorite hangout of people searching for nourishment for their bodies and their souls. The proprietor of Izakaya Moheji is Heiji. It is a place where regulars and strangers alike can find comfor...
- 2001
Free and Easy 12: Big Holiday Bonus Project (2001)
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Mr. Takano, a company employee, announces plans to take an early retirement so he can return to his home town and spend his days fishing. Su-san and Hama-chan envy his decision, and Hama-chan conspires to visit Takano, even though he has no vacation ...
- 1970
Apart from Life (1970)
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A film set in Nagasaki examining prejudice against atom bomb victims....
- 2020
THE LAST GOZE (2020)
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A "Goze" is a blind entertainer who travels to various places singing stories while playing the shamisen (Japanese three-stringed lute). Becoming a goze due to her blindness at seven-years-old, Haru was strictly trained with a parent's affection by h...
- 2007
Free and Easy 18 (2007)
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Hama-chan goes to Okayama to look for Su-san when he goes missing a few days after freezing up during his inaugural speech as the company chairman....
- 1968
Hymn to a Tired Man (1968)
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Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son's fallen for the daughter of a war officer responsible for the maiming....
- 2005
Free and Easy 16 (2005)
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Hama-chan meets a friendly US soldier on a trip to Nagasaki with Su-san. Su-san returns to Tokyo and is informed that Hama-chan has gone missing....
- 1961
The Song of the Season (1961)
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A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces....
- 2022
The Zen Diary (2022)
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Tsutomu lives alone in the mountains, writing essays, cooking Zen food with the vegetables he grows and the mushrooms he picks in the hills. His routine is happily disturbed when Machiko, his editor and love interest, occasionally visits. Tsutomu see...
- 1980
Twenty-Four Eyes (1980)
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TV adaptation of the novel "Twenty-Four Eyes", combining animation with a few live-action scenes....