Hisaya Itō Movies

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

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

Toho comedy shot in Tohoscope featuring performances from the Peanuts and the Crazy Cats. Original released alongside another Toho comedy, King Kong...

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

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

In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss....

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.

1958 Japanese movie

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

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...

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

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

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

Film directed by Yasuki Chiba.

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.