Akira Ishihama Movies

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the...

The story of a father and two teenaged sons, and the rivalry between the two siblings as they begin to discover the attraction of girls.

A father and son are both heavy drinkers. However, the son dies in an accident at a bar, leaving behind a fiance…. A unique social satire that...

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.

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

This drama of middle-class life in postwar Japan tells the story lower-middle-class workers in the city of Kawasaki, and their troubles and travails.

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

A young widow, made world weary by her abusive, neglectful husband, finds herself in a minor scandal when she's seen with her intense, no-nonsense...

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

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

In a certain port town, there is a group of young men called the Wakakusa-kai. The chairman Oda (Miki), member Ichiro Sonoda (Ishihama), his sister...

A young woman is forced by circumstance into a loveless marriage while still in love with another. This episodic tale follows their story through...

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...

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

A 1959 Yoshiaki Bansho adaptation of an Osaragi Jiro story.

1962 Japanese movie

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

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