Akira Ishihama Movies

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

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

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

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.

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.

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...

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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.

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 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

1997 V-Cinema film.

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...

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

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

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...