Yoshio Tsuchiya Movies

1963 Japanese movie

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.

Oniwaban is an organization that is composed of two ninja groups… Iga and Koga. This is a story of a secret spy who settled in Okazaki Joka...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...

The scene shifts to the vibrant city of Edo, where Iko-chan embarks on a grand adventure! The forces of an invading enemy loom over the Edo...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Lower Depths" (1957).

Iwao, , Kumagai, and Konishi broke into the safe containing the wages of the employees of Ato Industries and obtained a fortune large enough to live...

In the Edo period, a nameless ronin accepts an assignment to go to a mountain pass and wait. Near the pass he stops at an inn where a collection of...

Sasaki Kojiro tells the story of the genius who staked his love, glory, and life on a duel with the supreme master of the sword, Miyamoto Musashi...

Zatoichi, the famed blind swordsman, returns to his home village for the first time in many years. He is befriended by Omiyo, who had the same...

Living in a house that has lost its man to the war a year earlier are the widow and her child. Four of the dead man's friends gather to have an...

Adapted from a poem, which was composed by poet and sculptor Kotaro Takamura, Chieko-Sho is the story of the artist's wife Chieko. The poet meets a...

1962 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Sanjuro" (1962).

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns...