Akira Ishihama Movies

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

1962 Japanese movie

Eighth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

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

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.

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.

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

The year is 1932, and a woman, whose tenant-farmer fiancé is fighting in China, is raped by the landowner's son, who has returned from the war with a...

A sensitive young woman aged 22 fell in love with a middle aged man who was troubled by his unfaithful wife.

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

Three stories of moral sickness set during Japan’s prosperous Genroku era are told in this bloody follow-up to the sexploitation classic Shogun’s Joy...

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

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, novelists,...

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

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

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 ju...

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 t...

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

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