Akira Ishihama Movies

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

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...

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 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...

1997 V-Cinema film.

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.

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

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

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.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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

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

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

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...

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...