Akira Ishihama Movies

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

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...

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...

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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.

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

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

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

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...

1962 Japanese movie

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...