Akira Ishihama Movies

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour 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

Two sculptors spend the night in a mountain lodge after being caught in a snowstorm. A female spirit appears and takes the life of one of the men....

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 for an invalid girl whom he can only see from afar.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they 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

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

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 director of a large Tokyo trading company is kidnapped and held for ransom. A young but experienced detective is put on the case while being at...

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

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

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: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

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

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

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Cast: Shin Saburi

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major...

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

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 Itō

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

Set in a rubber company in Tokyo, this comedy depicts the sorrows of salarymen in a humorous way, centering on the commotion caused by the passionate...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kōji Nanbara

Isamu is a high school student who raises a pigeon at home amidst his father's opposition.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Ishihama

After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drowned in Lake Izu. A mysterious empty boat, a forged...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Film directed by Manao Horiuchi.

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Cast: Minoru Ōki

1954 Japanese movie

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Cast: Machiko Mizuhara

Genre: War

Cast: Akira Ishihama

A multifaced portrayal of ordinary life, revealing its hidden aspects! The second film in the "Bride Series" following "The Embraced Bride" is an...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

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Cast: Tatsuo Saitō

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

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Cast: Kōkichi Takada

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Cast: Haruko Wanibuchi

Kenichi, a fifth-grader, moved from Tokyo to the Ina Valley to receive treatment for his asthma. At his new elementary school, he meets Sabu, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takahiro Tamura

A young woman (Kuga), recuperating at a sanitarium in Karuizawa, falls in love with a young student (Ishihama) but returns to Tokyo to be with her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga