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...

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother....

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...

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

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war ....

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....

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

Kimie, a traveling guitarist, performs at various inns at help out her sickly mother. One night while out with her mother, Otoshi, Kimie unexpectedly sees her father, who had abandoned the family 20 years ago. Her hopes for a happy reunion are quickl...

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...

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...

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

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....

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....

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

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....

Japanese family drama....

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Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn....