Best movies of Masahiko Tsugawa

Actors : Yasuo Daichi, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Tsutomu Yamazaki,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

If tax evasion is an art, wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo is Rembrandt. And so, a determined taxing woman gets the tough assignment of trying to catch him.

Actors : Atsuko Asano, Naomi Zaizen, Takaaki Enoki, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Haruki Kadokawa,

In 16th century Japan, two samurai engage in massive battles across the countryside; one attempting to conquer and the other attempting to defend his land while repressing his love for a woman after taking a vow of celibacy.

Actors : Kayoko Honoo, Fumio Watanabe, Isao Sasaki, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

In Osaka's slum, capricious folks without futures engage in pilfering, assault and robbery, prostitution, and the trading of ID cards and blood.

Actors : Hiroshi Akutagawa, Miyuki Kuwano, Fumio Watanabe, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Nagisa Ôshima,

Long takes and a highly theatrical visual approach combine to form a tense and confrontational look at the decline of a socialist student activists' movement in Japan.

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Nobuko Miyamoto, Tetsurô Tanba, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

Ryoko Itakura returns as the government tax agent willing to tackle the toughest cases. This time she takes on a fanatical but lucrative religious cult run by a vile lecher.

Actors : Hizuru Takachiho, Kakuko Chino, Yûsuke Kawazu, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

A bored young student falls for the young secretary of his rich friend's father. She senses some good in him and tries to make him discard his aimless lifestyle.

Actors : Teruyo Yamagami, Michiko Saga, Masahiko Tsugawa, Sumiko Hidaka,
Directors : Yoshishige Yoshida,

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

Actors : Hiroshi Ohkôchi, Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

Actors : Rentarô Mikuni, Yoshiki Arizono, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

A successful Japanese movie director in his 60s becomes increasingly ill while working on his latest film. His family, friends, and doctor try to keep the secret of his terminal cancer from...

Actors : Ryûnosuke Kaneda, Nobuko Miyamoto, Masahiko Tsugawa, Sen Yano,
Directors : Jûzô Itami,

Goro's supermarket is not doing well; the rival "Bargains Galore" threatens his business. A chance encounter with Hanako, an energetic woman he knew in grade school, results in big retail ...

Actors : Miki Fujitani, Naoki Hosaka, Chieko Matsubara, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Yukio Fuji,

True story of a number of Imperial Japanese Army officers and soldiers who remained in Indonesia to fight off European colonists trying to retake the country after Japan's surrender.

Actors : Kosuke Toyohara, Shun Sugata, Denden, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Yoshinari Nishikôri,

In 16th century Japan, a young man has to choose between becoming a master steel maker like his father and grandfather before him, or becoming a samurai so that he can help protect his ...

Actors : Armando Urbach, Masahiko Tsugawa, Obdulia Plasencia, Gloria Lee,
Directors : Kazuo Kuroki,

A Japanese sailor arrives in Cuba, willing to know the country and meet its people, after a decade of a revolutionary process. He feels attracted to Marcia, a young Cuban girl, who ...

Actors : Kazuyo Asari, Yuki Sumida, Masahiko Tsugawa, Jun Hamamura,
Directors : Kaneto Shindô,

The film tells the story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha named Oyuki. Meticulous ...

Actors : Scott Wilson, Ronny Cox, Gitan Ôtsuru, Masahiko Tsugawa,
Directors : Shun'ya Itô,

In 1946, Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and 27 other Japanese officials stood trial for war crimes at the Tokyo Trial. This is their story.