Fusatarō Ishijima Movies

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is...

1958 Toei movie.

The body of a woman was found in a manhole. Is it an affair? The victim is a clerk at a mannequin manufacturing company. At the age of 26, she was a...

1961 Japanese movie

1961 Japanese movie

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

Murder case and trial.

Japanese family drama.

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night...

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers.

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

1961 Japanese movie

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....

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

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

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to...

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...

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his...

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime...