Akira Ishihama Movies

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

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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

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...

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.

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

A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the...

21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the...

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

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...

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

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

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...

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

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