Akira Ishihama Movies

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.

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

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...

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

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

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

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...

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

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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...

Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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

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.