Akio Isono Filmes

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant...

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era.

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers.

Mikio Naruse’s final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some...

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again.

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to...

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

1962 Japanese movie

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle.

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

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...