Akira Ishihama Movies

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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...

After the heartbreak of losing a close colleague, a television star vanishes, presumed to have drowned in Lake Izu. A mysterious empty boat, a forged...

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major...

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

Produced by Shochiku’s all-star cast as a commemorative film to mark the completion of the “Shochiku Kaikan” in Tsukiji, Tokyo,...

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

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls.

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...

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes...

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

A childless lawyer and his wife take in the quiet daughter of an imprisoned client, whose presence eventually creates romantic tension with the...

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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...