Isao Kimura Movies

About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical...

A Hibari Misora musical about an impoverished girl and her brother in Postwar Japan.

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived

1950s Japanese drama.

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case.