Isuzu Yamada Movies

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata. Kumazawa mistreats Sokichi...

A bar girl tries to pass her three children, each from a different father, to rural relatives.

It is presumed to be a lost film.

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Japanese comedy film.

A story of an ardent young man who laid down his life for his country.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

During the 17th Century roving bands of hatamoto were causing trouble in the new capital city of Edo and constantly fought with the townspeople at...

In 39 interviews with actors and actresses, writers, producers and staff members, interspersed with film excerpts and stills, Shindō recounts...

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