Isuzu Yamada Movies

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in...

Ginko, a poor cobbler's daughter, becomes a geisha to support her family. She passes from one geisha house to the next, trying to find love and hope...

Shochiku's commemorative 3000th film production; a suspenseful period drama.

Onna Hitori Daichi wo Yuku (A Lonely Woman in a Lonely Land, Kinuta Production, 1953) was the second feature film directed by Kamei Fumio, who is...

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

The female members of the family of the Minister of Health and Welfare, who has just proposed a program of birth control, become pregnant one after...

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

A gripping historical drama that follows the explosive growth of Katsu Kaishu, the hero of the Meiji era, and the interesting human image of his...

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

When the Shogunates greatest secret is stolen, the fate of the nation hangs in the balance. The Shogunate sends an incompetent cop, Tanaka, to Kyoto...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...