Isao Kimura Movies

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

1950s Japanese drama.

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Based on the Nobu Koito story

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...