Movies: Fusatarō Ishijima

Detective Tarao goes undercover to battle an evil gun smuggling business....

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not reali...

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

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...

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

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn....

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them....

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

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

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial ...

A modern gang version of Chushingura, chronicling almost scene for scene the Brave 47 Ronin story, transposed from the Genroku Period to the Showa Era....

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....

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Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case....

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....

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

1962 Japanese movie...

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

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'....

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa a...