Akira Ishihama Movies

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

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

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 sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large...

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...

A young woman marries someone else, but cannot forget her first lover.

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...

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

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

A suspense drama based on Miyuki Miyabe. In contrast to herself, she and two women lived a free-spirited life, forcing a restaurant owner to raise...

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...