Fusatarō Ishijima Movies

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...

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....

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

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

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

1962 Japanese movie

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

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...

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

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

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...

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

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword...

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan