Akio Isono Filmes

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...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

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

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

1962 Japanese movie

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...