Akira Ishihama Movies

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

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

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

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

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

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

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...

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.

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

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

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

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...

Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The...

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...

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

A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.