Shinobu Tsuruta Movies

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself....

A sendup of the stereotypical Japanese family: dad is a salaryman jerk, unable to relate to anyone; mom is a hopeless housewife; the older son is a...

A young man saves a woman who is trying to commit suicide, gradually discovering more about her troubled past.

Sakiko, a young bank teller, has an unhealthy obsession with money. Thieves hold up the bank, kidnapping Sakiko in the process, but eventually crash...

9th-graders Kazuo and Kazumi take a tumble at a temple in a small seacoast town in Japan. Through supernatural intervention, their minds and bodies...

The final instalment in the popular series featuring the duo of Hama-chan, a lifelong low-ranking employee and fishing enthusiast, and Suu-san, the...

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress supporting her impoverished...

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult....

The story follows the teacher and students of the Ryubetsu Handicapped High School.

A woman runs a “mistress service” and interviews young women for “dates” with men. Various couples get together but someone...

An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story...

Based on the comic book by Kenshi Hirokane

A lower-middle-class policeman lives decadently, chasing cheap beer and girls at the same time he's running from loan sharks and his personal...

A runaway cat-loving girl begins a love triangle with a reckless older man and a young biker in high school. The film follows their subsequent...

An ancient evil spirit resurrects in the modern age and possesses a beautiful woman.

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

Yuji, a budding writer, meets and starts falling in love with his best friend’s girlfriend, Natsuko. The attraction is mutual but due to the...

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...

A young man fails his company entrance exams and leaves home to work at a run-down cinema in Tokushima, whose owner lives to bring entertaining films...