Akira Ishihama Movies

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

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

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...

1954 Japanese movie

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...

Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The...

After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drowned in Lake Izu. A mysterious empty boat, a forged...

Film directed by Manao Horiuchi.

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls.

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

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...

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

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

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

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

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married...