Movies: Fusatarō Ishijima

Sheriff Goro goes undercover to investigate drug smugglers....

Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business....

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki......

Koharu, a young geisha, is in love with Kenichi, an apprentice carpenter to her father Masagoro. Their love life comes to a sudden halt after an argument between their two fathers. Can their love survive in spite of the bitterness between their two f...

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan...

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy....

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woma...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother....

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

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura. Tora wreaks some havoc in their lives, like getting drunk and silly at a marriage meeting and ruining Sa...

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

1962 Japanese movie...

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The ominous foreboding of the First Investigation Department hit the mark, it turned out that the discove...

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1959 Japanese movie...

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave. After his departure there is great depression, but there is a chance to rekindle ...

During the Warring States era, Hozoin Kakuzenbo and Yagyu Tajima-no-kami, being best friends, spend their days acquiring skills of the spear, sword and martial arts. Hozoin loses a series of matches with master swordsman Kozumi Ise-no-kami. Bitterly ...

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl....

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