Akio Isono

Kono ni uruwashi (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Zero Focus (1961)

One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pa ...

Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest (1959)

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Hiroi Ten (1959)

A boy, who is separated from his mother in an air raid, endures suffering and grief alongside his kind uncle. ...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Mich ...

Hearts A-Flutter (1957)

Akuma no kao (1957)

The Young Avenger (1957)

Akitaro Orizuru, who set out on a journey to avenge his father's death in the darkness, returned to Itako, his hometown, where the Ayame Festival was approaching, for the first time in five years. His late father's brother, Sutezo, who took off his waraji, ...

Flying in the Air (1957)

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky. ...

I Will Buy You (1956)

A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising baseball player to The Toyko Flowers. ...

The Rose on His Arm (1956)

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza. ...

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel (1956)

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

The Bronze Monster (1954)

In this four part mystery-adventure, detective Kogoro Akechi and the members of the Boy Detectives Club must capture the Bronze Monster, a giant metal monster that steals valuable clocks. ...

Always in My Heart Part 3 (1954)

Machiko and Haruki's drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe. ...

Love Letter (1953)

Five years after the end of the Second World War, Reikichi, a repatriated veteran, translates love letters for Japanese women to American GIs, while searching for his lost love, Michiko. ...

Always in My Heart Part 2 (1953)

Machiko and Haruki's drama continues. Two meet again in Hokkaido only to be separated again. ...

Mole Alley (1953)

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating from a girls' school in Hokuriku, she immediately moved to Tokyo to meet and marry Ogata. After neatly writ ...

Carmen's Innocent Love (1952)

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician. ...

Hibari's Circus: The Sad Little Dove (1952)

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father, Ryutaro, whom she always thought was an agricultural and forestry engineer, was a circus clown. Over time, M ...

Carmen Comes Home (1951)

A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist. ...

The Tokyo Kid (1950)

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while avoiding her wealthy, absentee father, his hired goons, and the neighborhood fortune teller (Enoken) who's after ...

Odoru ryûgûjô (1949)

The Woman Who Holds the Key (1946)

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso. ...

Dawn Chorus (1941)

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor. ...

Okinu and Banto (1940)

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks. ...

The Story of Tank Commander Nishizumi (1940)

Following a young man through his childhood ambition to follow his father into the military to losing his life in combat in China. ...

Five Siblings (1939)

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. ...

The Masseurs and a Woman (1938)

A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, ...

Mother and Child (1938)

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her mother's loneliness, while also having an affair with her father's subordinate. ...

The Lights of Asakusa (1937)

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience. Pretty, young Reiko is the new dancer in an infamous theatre troupe, and her fellow performers try to protec ...

Lady Doctor Kinuyo (1937)

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is ancestral. Although Kinuyo and Yasuo love each other, they have different thoughts toward treatments. ...

Men vs. Women (1936)

A musical film made for the inauguration of Shochiku's Ofuna Studio, with an all-star cast of the era. ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1935)

A period piece about the love of a wealthy blind woman, a teacher of koto and shamisen, and her devoted manservant. Based on a novella by Tanizaki Junichiro. ...

Mother's Love Letter (1935)

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school. ...

Lumberjack and Lady (1935)

A Japanese comedy from the end of the silent era (it has music) from a popular series. A feud, a practical joke and romance are the set up for some great comedy and drama from a team of distinctive appearance who are exploiting their silent cinema styles t ...

Our Neighbor, Miss Yae (1934)

Keitaro is a law student and Yaeko is a high school girl. They are neighbors, and their friendship is starting to develop into something more romantic. Then, Yaeko's sister Kyouko has a breakup with her husband and returns home. Kyouko is clearly intereste ...

Street Without End (1934)

Mikio Naruse's final silent film is a gloriously rich portrait of a waitress, Sugiko, whose life, despite a host of male admirers and even some intrigued movie talent scouts, ends up taking a suffocatingly domestic turn after a wealthy businessman accident ...

The Genealogy of Women (1934)

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The Romance of Yushima. ...

The Layabout and Seabathing (1933)

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store on the beach to get rich... ...

Apart from You (1933)

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a life of ignominy. ...

Arashi no naka no shojo (1932)