Tomio Kuriyama

Directing

Tomio Kuriyama

Born

1941-02-20 (85)

Place of birth

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

20 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Tora-san's Dream of Spring poster
8.2

Tora-san's opinions about Americans get challenged when another wandering peddler Michael Jordan stops by Shibamata.

Tora-san's Dream of Spring

1979

Free and Easy 2 poster
8.7

Hama-chan gets Su-san hooked on fishing, but Su-san has some problems to deal with; a beautiful woman saves Su-san when he collapses while fishing.

Free and Easy 2

1989

Free and Easy poster
7.5

Densuke Hamazaki is an office worker at Suzuki Construction and gets transferred to the main Tokyo office. After settling in to his surrounding along with his wife Eri, Densuke befriends an elderly man named Ichinosuke Suzuki. Ichinosuke is a lonely and old man who learns to enjoy life again through his friendship with Densuke. Meanwhile, Densuke is completely unaware that Ichinosuke is the boss of his construction company. The two men become friends through their shared passion for fishing.

Free and Easy

1988

Organized Violence II poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Organized Violence II

1967

Free and Easy 9 poster
7.5

Hama-chan’s sales department gets a new supervisor, a hard-working taskmaster that’s the very opposite of carefree, irresponsible Hama-chan. The veteran employee decides to find his boss, a divorced father, a new wife. The supervisor loves a bar hostess “mama-san,” but is unable to confess his true feelings until Hama-chan comes to his rescue.

Free and Easy 9

1997

Free and Easy 4 poster
8.3

Hama-chan and his wife are ecstatic about their long-awaited pregnancy. Meanwhile, Su-san's nephew joins Hama-chan's department at the company.

Free and Easy 4

1991

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition poster
7.2

A traveling ronin perceived as a fool impresses a samurai leader with his fishing skills and gains employment.

Free and Easy: Samurai Edition

1998

Aspiration poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aspiration

1977

Free and Easy 8 poster
7.3

When Su-san invites his late friend's daughter to come along on a fishing trip, she falls in love with Hama-chan's fishing protégé.

Free and Easy 8

1996

Free and Easy 3 poster
8.0

Su-San invites Hama-chan to go fishing at a place close to his heart after learning about Hama-chan and his wife's fertility problems.

Free and Easy 3

1990

Free and Easy 6 poster
7.7

Hama-chan and Su-san go fishing during a business trip, but Hama-chan has to give a lecture on Su-san's behalf in a case of mistaken identity.

Free and Easy 6

1993

Free and Easy 7 poster
7.5

Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a dentist's office.

Free and Easy 7

1994

Congratulatory Speech poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Congratulatory Speech

1985

Free and Easy 10 poster
7.0

Su-san resigns after getting fed up with corporate life, but he finds himself back in familiar surroundings on his first assignment at a new job.

Free and Easy 10

1998

Free and Easy 5 poster
7.9

Hama-chan shows up to work with his son on his back when his wife goes to her class reunion and his mother throws her back out.

Free and Easy 5

1992

No artwork available
NR

"Home Sweet Home" deals with a family who, unable to cope with their aging grandfather's worsening dementia, abandon him at a group home for the elderly. When, racked by guilt, they return to retrieve him, they discover to their surprise. . .

Home Sweet Home

2000

Days with Harasu poster
NR

The movie depicts the interaction between a childless middle-aged couple and a small dog.

Days with Harasu

1989

I Go to Tokyo poster
6.0

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside.

I Go to Tokyo

1985

愛しのチィパッパ poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

愛しのチィパッパ

1986

Itoshi no Lahaina poster
7.0

The film depicts a couple who go on a trip to Hawaii to relieve their daily frustration and get caught up in various commotions. Written by Masakuni Takahashi ("Minatomachi Gentlemen's Record"), directed by Tomio Kuriyama (this was his first film), and photographed by Kosuke Yasuda. Theme song is by Davey Smith ("Itoshi no Lahaina").

Itoshi no Lahaina

1983