Sayoko Tanimoto Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Set in the pleasure district of Kyoto, Tamiko (Yoshiko Mita, in her first lead role) is a young girl attending high school by day and training as a...

A young reporter is covering the mysterious case of a child found dead with missing internal organs.

Set in Shibuya in 1949, this is another film based on real life former yakuza boss Noboru Ando's memoirs.

Japanese prison exploitation movie. Part 1 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Ishihama is planning a casino robbery with his wife and mother-in-law. They meet a man named Tsuneda who is planning the same robbery and agree to...

1959 Japanese movie

Violent Gang Re-Arms is a rousing tale of friction in yakuza and labor interactions with Koji Tsurata as a yakuza supervising a dockworker's union....

1962 Japanese movie

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

Part 2 of the 'Onna bangaichi' series

Tarao’s services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with an eerie mask of a devil.

Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife,...

1962 Japanese movie

17 year old naïve country girl Emiko Yamauchi has a hash wakeup call when she’s welcomed to Tokyo by a bunch of rapey hoods. Fast forward...