Isuzu Yamada Movies

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

After running away from her mother, Ashiko works as a maid at an inn and changes her name, but she finds herself torn between her past and a new...

After the father of her son leaves her high and dry, Kazuko gives her child up for adoption and takes a job at a hot spring resort, watching her son...

A 1943 film.

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed...

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

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

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

Adaptation of a novel by Nobuko Yoshiya that was serialized in "Shufu no tomo" between 1939 and 1940.