Fusatarō Ishijima Movies

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and...

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness.

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The...

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

After World War II, their town was a pile of rubble. Gennosuke, the second generation boss of the Kamizu Group was upholding yakuza chivalry by...

The lives of several Japanese families are shattered as the USA and the USSR move toward war, Japan finds itself caught in the middle, and Tokyo is...

A human drama of crew and passengers on a special express train named “Sakura” from Tokyo to Nagasaki...

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan

A group of Okinawan high school girls are drafted as nurses during the American invasion of the island. As the enemy army advances further, the...

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

Slice of life film centered on a couple of years in the life of a rural high school girl.

A poignant story about a young couple, Setsu and Chozo, who are torn apart to save Setsu's father's restaurant.

1962 Japanese movie

A touching story about a young boy, Genta, who bravely takes on life's challenges in hopes of finding a better life for himself and his sickly mother.

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station....

Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.