Akira Ishihama Movies

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

1997 V-Cinema film.

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

The city of Yūbari in the Hokkaido prefecture has become a ghost town following the presence of Shadow Moon and his minions of Gorgom. Makino, a...

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

1962 Japanese movie

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise...

Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The...

A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.