Akira Ishihama Movies

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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

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,...

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