Hisaya Itō Movies

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

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

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to...

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Horror film directed by Toshikazu Kôno.

1962 Japanese movie

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Three bankers, out on holiday, climb the Japanese Alps. One dies under mysterious circumstances, and later it is suggested that perhaps the man was...

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

A truck driver is reunited with friends from his youth in a seedy bar and gets drawn into a web of crime.

In the wake of the 1956 Prostitution Prevention Law, a young woman recently released from one of Japan's new rehabilitation centers struggles to...