Fusatarō Ishijima Movies

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

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

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...

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....

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'...

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

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business.

1961 Japanese movie

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

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

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business.

The corpse of a debt collector, Sakai, is found in the Dobu River in Tokyo. Kinoshita, a shoe shiner who was in debt to Sakai, was soon apprehended....

Japanese family drama.

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

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

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

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...

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