Akira Ishihama Movies

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

Isamu is a high school student who raises a pigeon at home amidst his father's opposition.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

A Tokyo family running a liquor store overcome impotence and dysfunction as they induce an understanding through each other of how to deal with their...

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major...

When a family has to relocate due to the war, they are ostracized by their new community.

A rivalry sparks between two teenage brothers when they discover the attraction of girls.

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

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

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...

Before a young woman can be sold to a geisha, she becomes pregnant.

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

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

A young student falls for an invalid girl, whom he can only see from afar.

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

1997 V-Cinema film.