Akio Isono Movies

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

1962 Japanese movie

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.