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...

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....

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

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...

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...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

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

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

Detectives of the First Investigation Division are investigating the murder of a 15-year-old girl, whose strangled corpse was found in the bay of 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...

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

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital...

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

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'...

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

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

1962 Japanese movie

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....