Hisaya Ito Movies

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

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

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

1961 Japanese movie

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

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes...

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....

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

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...

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

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

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

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, ...

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

1962 Japanese movie

Apparently a baseball drama starring real-life stars Nagashima (The Babe Ruth of Japanese Baseball) and teammate Oh-known collectively as ON-from the...

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...