Shima Iwashita Movies

When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.

During the 16th century, Japan was involved in the Sengoku Period, an era of civil wars and the powerful warlords who fought them. One of the...

1962 Japanese movie

Also known as: For My Daughter's 7th Birthday. Many years following her mother’s suicide, Maya seeks out her father, who deserted them, for...

A story of childhood life during wartime Japan. Takeshi, the intelligent son of a fisherman, is the schoolyard bully. When his cousin comes to stay...

An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both...

This movie is based on an immortal literary work "The Snow Country," a story about a life of geisha Komako who lives in a region with heavy snowfalls.

Turbulent life of Kiwa, the successor of the most prominent yakuza in Osaka, the Domoto Clan.

A Yakuza boss's wife and the widow of a rival crime syndicate's murdered leader bond over a common purpose: to seek vengeance.

A crippled kabuki player is taken into a strolling company of itinerant actors. An influential publisher notices his honest, bold drawings, and...

Recently released from prison for a murder sentence, a yakuza boss's wife leaves Hong Kong for a fresh start, but a betrayal leads to her return.

In this drama at the end of World War II, the inhabitants of a small Japanese fishing village must come to terms with their nation's defeat and the...

A criminal syndicate wants detective Onihei dead, but the resolute hero proves to be hard to kill.

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the...

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his...