Akio Isono Movies

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

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...

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

Following the accidental death of a logging boss in the Kiso mountains, a local thug pressures the boss's daughter into marriage. When the boss's new...

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

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

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,...

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...

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