Tamasaburo Bando Movies

  • 1995
    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    The Tale of Himeji Castle

    6.51995HD

    A young samurai dares to approach a castle mistress as he searches for an escaped falcon, a crime punishable by death, but escapes with his life. He...

    The Tale of Himeji Castle
  • 1979
    Demon Pond

    Demon Pond

    Demon Pond

    6.21979HD

    When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a...

    Demon Pond
  • 1991
    Yumeji

    Yumeji

    Yumeji

    6.51991HD

    Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

    Yumeji
  • 1988
    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

    6.1071988HD

    The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

    Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
  • 1992
    Gekashitsu

    Gekashitsu

    Gekashitsu

    01992HD

    Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

    Gekashitsu
  • 1993
    Yearning

    Yearning

    Yearning

    01993HD

    Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

    Yearning
  • 1994
    Nastazja

    Nastazja

    Nastazja

    6.21994HD

    Andrzej Wajda's Japanese-language film based on the last chapter of Dostoevsky's Idiot, in which Prince Myshkin and Rogozhin return to the past in a...

    Nastazja
  • 1995
    The Written Face

    The Written Face

    The Written Face

    01995HD

    In Japanese theater, women's roles are traditionally played by men. The man playing the woman's role, the Onnagata, does not imitate the woman, as in...

    The Written Face
  • 2004
    Ume Goyomi

    Ume Goyomi

    Ume Goyomi

    02004HD

    The main story concerns the rivalry between Adakichi and Yonehachi, two geisha of the Fukagawa district of Edo, for the love of the handsome and...

    Ume Goyomi