Isuzu Yamada Movies

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 "slice-of life" film about a group of high school girls in 1940s Japan.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits,...

Hatamoto Akabane Tanaka once ruined his life with alcohol in his youth, leaving behind his wife and son, Hanji, to embark on a journey. He killed a...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried...

An Invention laboratory is working on the creation of a performance 'bomb' in the shape of a rocket that could be delivered to the front in order to...

A 1943 film.

A group of seemingly ordinary merchants is really a band of assassins for hire. When they discover that all the assassins in Edo are being killed...

A boy falls in love with a girl. Neither of them know that she's to be sold to a brothel.

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

This film tells the story of a ronin's search for his parents, but primarily is a group portrait of life in a Tokugawa-era tenement. Considered a...

The Siege of Osaka

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

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...

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him,...