Akira Ishihama Movies

1954 Japanese movie

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

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.

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...

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

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

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

A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise...

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large...

1997 V-Cinema film.

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Film directed by Manao Horiuchi.

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

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

1962 Japanese movie

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...