Akira Ishihama Movies

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

1997 V-Cinema film.

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

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...

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

A fishing union depends on two brothers to make up the losses caused by the dishonest captains they replaced.

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar.

A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

A dancer girl in a touring company met a high school boy in a port town. The story is about their first love that is very touching and sorrowful. An...

The film opens with kidnappers of a corporate executive making an unusual ransom demand: that a wizened executive from another company haul large...

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...

The story of a young couple deeply in love with each other but, because of complications and misunderstandings created by the people surrounding...

Story of a family torn apart when Teiji (Mori), the father, develops intimate feelings for a runaway (Kuga) the family has taken into their home.

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

Nami (波 Nami) is a Japanese film directed by Noboru Nakamura. It was entered into the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.

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