Isao Kimura Movies

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

A shoe company executive who has mortgaged everything he has becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and is conflicted...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A detective tries to outwit a jewel thief who has kidnapped the daughter of a jeweler to get to an exquisite diamond.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akihiro Miwa

Loyal samurai Samanosuke is attacked, mutilated, and left for dead while carrying out a mission for his clan. He recovers but has lost an eye and an...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Assassination begins with the events of 1853 when "four black ships" anchored at Edo Bay, sparking civil unrest and the major political manoeuvring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsurō Tamba

A director faces creative block while working on his latest film - a reimagination of his adolescence growing up in a mountain village in rural Japan.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Kantarō Suga

In an isolated mountain resort, a woman gets involved in a love triangle between herself, her volatile lover and her ex-boyfriend, for whom she had...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Mariko Okada

In the third installment of Yoshikawa's novel Musashi, things continue from the 2nd film at the end of battle, where Miyamoto continues on a mission...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The remake of Yoshikawa's novel continues with the second installment in which Takezo, soon to be Miyamoto Musashi, emerges from the Himeji Castle...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments....

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

In this first episode, we are introduced to Takezo, what Musashi used to be before he became the man of legend. His beginning are not exactly...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chikage Awashima

Masaki Kobayashi directs this romantic drama concerning a family of florists.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Isao Kimura

When two sisters fall in love with the same man, one must decide to look elsewhere.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chieko Baisho

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

A successful textile industrialist from the provinces, who is beloved by his employees for his kindness, cannot find a wife because of a disfiguring...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Shingo and Ritsuko have a baby: Takashi. They happen to be a happy couple, but soon Ritsuko wants to know who is the true father of Takashi, born by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

In this intricately layered Japanese film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mariko Okada

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōko Kagawa

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chōjūrō Kawarasaki

1950s Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

The Angry Street includes a great deal of location shooting in the rebuilt city, including downtown streets, residential neighborhoods, the campus of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

Yoshie Nogami, a factory worker by day, works as a bar hostess at night. She begins a passionate affair with one of her regulars, but his changing...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Miyuki Kuwano

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūnosuke Itō

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Nobuko Otowa

The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Takamine

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Genre: War

Cast: Isao Kimura

In the sixth and final film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, the final conflict between Ogami Itto and the Yagyu clan is carried out.

Genre: Action

Cast: Tomisaburō Wakayama

After a salary-man's fiancée attempts suicide, he recounts his gruesome family history which saw generations of his ancestors suffer and...

Genre: History

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Mita

A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Noboru Andō

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hibari Misora

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Masayuki Yui

Japanese drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ayako Wakao

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Japanese comedy film.

Genre: Music

Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yoshiko Sakuma

Melodrama about a young factory girl who "chooses riches over chastity".

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Tsukasa

A movie adaptation of Funayama Kaoru's novel of the same name, which depicts the story of a modern youth who is attracted to the evil path. Saburi...

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Cast: Shin Saburi

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Cast: Hiromi Go

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

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

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Cast: Hibari Misora

Genre: Crime

Cast: Isao Kimura

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Chōchō Miyako

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Cast: Ryūnosuke Tsukigata

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

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Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A story of a passionate teacher and his great effort for the children in a poor village.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A young yakuza, Yatappe, wanders around the country in search of his long-lost little sister, Oito. While traveling, he rescues a young girl, Osayo,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends.

Genre: Action

Cast: Noboru Andō

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Cast: Utaemon Ichikawa

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

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Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

Genre: War

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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Cast: Hisako Tsukuba

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Cast: Shinjirô Ehara

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryutaro Otomo

The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived

Genre: Drama

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

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Cast: Hajime Izu

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Hayata and his best friend Ushijima came to Tokyo to become champions. Hayata repeatedly sought to join Tamura's boxing club, but Tamura fell in love...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kei Satō

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hashizo Okawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yōko Yamamoto

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kappei Matsumoto

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

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Cast: Kazuo Hasegawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Kubo

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Based on the Nobu Koito story

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

Genre: Romance

Cast: Isao Kimura