Akio Isono Movies

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers.

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

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

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...

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

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

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Akitaro Orizuru, who set out on a journey to avenge his father's death in the darkness, returned to Itako, his hometown, where the Ayame Festival was...

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

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

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

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

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

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.