Akira Ishihama Movies

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

Keiko’s life is turned upside down when she discovers that she has been infected with HIV. As she struggles to cope with the situation and...

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...

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

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

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

The Nakata family, father, mother, son Hideo, and daughters Taeko and Akiko live in the poorer section of modern Tokyo. Their troubles start when the...

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

1962 Japanese movie

21-year-old Hideo Ishida is a reckless young man. Today again, he took part in a car race with a stolen driver's license and a car belonging to the...

Fukami, a secretary engaged to company president Kaido, her employer, is invited by his close friends, the Nogis, to a three-day-two-night tour. The...

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

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

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.

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.

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

1972 Japanese film directed by Tengo Yamada.