Shigeki Ishida Movies

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.

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Cast: Michiyo Aratama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Comedy of manners set on the "Kodama" train between Tokyo and Osaka, before the opening of the Shinkansen. In the leading role, Frankie Sakai plays a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

Ichiro Miki is a child living in the industrial district of Kawasaki, where his parents' constant struggle to make ends meet often leaves the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Tomonori Yazaki

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Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks...

Genre: Music

Cast: Izumi Yukimura

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

A timid salaryman is the subject of this black comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

A historical drama that depicts the touching beauty of world obsession and human love in the style of light comedy, in the center of which is a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Ken Uehara

Second of the three Awamori-kun movies.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kyū Sakamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Takashima

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

Crime film released in 1969

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Junzaburō Ban

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

The final film by Yuzo Kawashima.

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Cast: Reiko Dan

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

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Cast: Kei Tani

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

After being mistaken for an Interpol agent, a man who was just supposed to go on vacation gets mixed up in a war between two gangs intent on winning...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

During the raging war between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa clans, the swordsman Mohei (whose family has been completely decimated) is recruited by...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...

Genre: War

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

After their lord is tricked into committing ritual suicide, forty-seven samurai warriors await the chance to avenge their master and reclaim their...

Genre: History

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Yūzō Kayama

Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life

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Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A Toho comedy film staring the Crazy Cats.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshio Kurosawa

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Junko Ikeuchi

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki