Hisaya Morishige Movies

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko...

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

Based on the novel "Ekimae Ryokan" by Masuji Ibuse, a longtime hotel employee struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar...

The third film in the "Woman" series, based on the original work by Shinji Fujiwara, set in the Shinjuku Entertainment Company.

Keisuke Morita, a man with dark glasses standing on the Shibaura pier, a descendant of an illegitimate descendant left behind in Osaka and a brother...

A food company undergoes leadership changes, with younger staff rising to key roles.

Sixth entry in the Ekimae series, loosely based on the folktale of the tanuki and the tea kettle.

A cosmetics executive promoted to chairman faces chaos at home and work as his company undergoes major changes and internal power shifts.

Seventh in the Ekimae series, detailing the exploits of the landladies around Ryogoku Station in Tokyo, and their sumo clientele.

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

A woman looks after her father in law.

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

Japanese comedy film.

The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives.

Chief editor Shirou Kanzaka (Hisaya Morishige) of Sankei Publishing Inc. is being tried for embezzlement and the staging of Chiyo Umehara's suicide....

A food company president is promoted to chairman, but his continued involvement creates leadership confusion.