Akira Ishihama Movies

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

The city of Yūbari in the Hokkaido prefecture has become a ghost town following the presence of Shadow Moon and his minions of Gorgom. Makino, a...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tetsuo Kurata

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemployed, and with no family, he hopes to find...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

1997 V-Cinema film.

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Cast: Toshiyuki Nagashima

A master sculptor and his apprentice are trapped in a bad snow storm after finding a special tree for carving a statue for the local temple. Finding...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Shiho Fujimura

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kanako Michi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akiko Tamura

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kuniko Miyake

Famous detective Kindaichi solves a series of mysterious murders in a wealthy family. An excellent blend of intrigue and betrayal, set against the...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Toshiyuki Nishida

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Katsuragi

Doctors Kazamatsuri and Onizuka are geneticists researching cures on diseases such as AIDS and cancer by performing experiments to strengthen the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Shin Ishikawa

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Kogure

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Setsuko Karasuma

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...

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Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Mishima

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Toranosuke Ogawa

Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Joji Takagi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

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Cast: Isamu Nagato

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Hara

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Ishihama

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Eiji Okada

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruo Yoshida

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists,...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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

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Cast: Shin Saburi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiromi Go

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...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wakiko Kano

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

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.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Aki Mizusawa

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...

Genre: War

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoko Minamino

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazue Itô

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

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Cast: Hibari Misora