Movies: Fusatarō Ishijima

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not reali...

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial ...

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sa...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa a...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant....

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the situation for the girls becomes increasingly desperate as food and shelter run out and the number of injur...

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era....

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Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy....

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case....

1962 Japanese movie...

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a youn...

1959 Japanese movie...

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki......

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1962 Japanese movie...

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