Akira Ishihama Movies

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists researching cures on diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the...

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

Isamu is a high school student who raises a pigeon at home amidst his father's opposition.

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

1962 Japanese movie

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.