The best Eijirō Tōno’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Eijirō Tōno’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Eijirō Tōno.
Good Morning
7.8/10
A lighthearted take on director Yasujiro Ozu’s perennial theme of the challenges of intergenerational relationships, Good Morning tells the story of two young boys who stop speaking in protest after their parents refuse to buy a television set. Ozu weaves a wealth of subtle gags through a family portrait as rich as those of his dramatic films, mocking the foibles of the adult world through the eyes of his child protagonists. Shot in stunning color and set in a suburb of Tokyo where housewives gossip about the neighbors’ new washing machine and unemployed husbands look for work as door-to-door salesmen, this charming comedy refashions Ozu’s own silent classic I Was Born, But . . . to gently satirize consumerism in postwar Japan.
Kill!
7.4/10
A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin.
Pigs and Battleships
7.5/10
In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.
Burden of Love
6.6/10
The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after the other. - Nikkatsu
Salaryman Chushingura
7.1/10
The eighth entry in the President series.
An Osaka Story
7.2/10
A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.
President Ninpocho
The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.
Port of Flowers
6.5/10
The sweet but naive denizens of a charming port town are hoodwinked by a couple of con men at the outset of World War II. But the hustlers’ plan backfires when they come down with severe cases of conscience. Keisuke Kinoshita’s directorial debut is a breezy, warmhearted, and often very funny crowd-pleaser that’s a testament to the filmmaker’s faith in people.
This Madding Crowd
7.4/10
The Elegant Life of Mr. Everyman
7/10
A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.
Nippon Ichi no Goma Suri Otoko
7.1/10
Women's House
After Shuichiro moved to Tokyo, the Tanno family became completely female, including Mrs. Tanno, Shuichiro's daughter-in-law Manzuko, painter Takashiro Egi, Shizu Kazemaki, Mitsue Nanbu, an intellectual who works in a university laboratory, and an old woman.
The Days of Evil Women
6.8/10
The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances.
Shishun no izumi
6.1/10
Double Wedding
Tora-san's Cherished Mother
7/10
Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.
Tales of a Golden Geisha
6.4/10
The film stars two of Itami's regular actors, Nobuko Miyamoto as a geisha who brings luck to the men with whom she sleeps, and Masahiko Tsugawa as her unfaithful, sometimes partner. As well as showing her relationships with the man she loves and the men who employ her, it satirizes corruption and the influence of money in Japanese politics.
Girls Born in August
Three Gentlemen from Tokyo
The Naked General
A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.
