Isuzu Yamada Movies

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is...

When a civil war threatens to break out, two geishas flee from their village with aristocrats. During the long journey, the socially inferior women...

Directed by Mansaku Itami.

Based on a short story by Dazai Osamu, produced under the national film law. The film's hero falls in love with the youngest daughter of a family he...

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Kikuji is the scion of an Osaka merchant family whose traditional power is matrilineal. Instructed by his overbearing mother and grandmother to give...

Umekichi, a geisha in the Gion district of Kyoto, feels obliged to help her lover Furusawa when he asks to stay with her after becoming bankrupt and...

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This...

The story is set in a rural village, where the village mayor gives a speech at the local community center as a theater troupe visits the village for...