Isao Kimura Movies

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

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

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

A young man, convicted of a crime and imprisoned in the penitentiary, comes to believe that his wife is being unfaithful to him. He contrives his...

After receiving a phone call from a woman whose child has contracted polio, government official Masayoshi Sakata decides to do everything he can to...

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

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales.

1961 Japanese movie

Based on the Nobu Koito story

Koharu, a flamboyant geisha, unexpectedly wins a trip to Sado Island in a TV contest. She is accompanied by three people. Koharu had been dreaming of...

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...

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

1961 Japanese movie

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...

The story depicts the sorrows and joys of women in Shinjuku, centering on a daughter who became a hostess burdened with a large compensation payment...

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

A luxury car was stolen near a certain nightclub in Akasaka, and the owner of the car was shot and killed. The investigation by detective Nagata,...