Akio Isono Movies

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

Akitaro Orizuru, who set out on a journey to avenge his father's death in the darkness, returned to Itako, his hometown, where the Ayame Festival was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kōkichi Takada

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Junzaburō Ban

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shima Iwashita

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minoru Chiaki

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mitsuko Yoshikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōtarō Mizushima

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.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Setsuko Shinobu

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

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Cast: Shozaburo Abe

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

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Cast: Tomio Aoki

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

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Cast: Hibari Misora

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

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Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō I

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

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Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

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Cast: Takahiro Tamura

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,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hibari Misora

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Cast: Masuo Inoue

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labor chief at a large mining operation in...

Genre: War

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reikichi Kawamura

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masayuki Mori

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

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eiji Wakasugi

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

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Ishihama

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Joji Oka

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ken Uehara

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shozaburo Abe

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeko Aizome

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teiji Takahashi

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Uehara

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akio Isono

Genre: Music

Cast: Michiko Namiki

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China.

Genre: War

Cast: Shozaburo Abe

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masao Hayama