Movies: Fusatarō Ishijima

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

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

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

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Young geisha Kohana scrambles to realize her dream of bringing back her grandmother’s restaurant business....

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

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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 keeping black-market and illegal items out of their open-air market. Taking advantage of the mess, Iwasa a...

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople....

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An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, complained to the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The ominous foreboding of the First Investigation Department hit the mark, it turned out that the discove...

The fourth installment of G-men of Japan...

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 ultimately evacuated as the two superpowers invoke the 'nuclear option'....

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn....

Detective Tarao investigates the deaths of police officers who were involved in solving a kidnapping case....

A tale of two best friends in the WWII era Japan. Takao is a young man enthusiastic about joining the navy to fight for his country. He convinces his best friend Shinji to join him. As it turns out, however, Takao's poor health prevents him from ente...

1959 Japanese movie...

Junpei Kihara, a young president of the University's wrestling club, is nicknamed "Mr. Chop". One day, on the way back from visiting the hospital after being thrown by Nobuyoshi Shinohara during practice and injured, he met Asako, the sister of Arisa...