Akio Isono Movies

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

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...

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

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...

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

A sad and troubled man finds a new job five years after the end of WWII, where he writes love letters for other people.

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

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

1962 Japanese movie

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

Shochiku melodrama about the loves of the humble people living in the poor tenament called the Ryuheiso.

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

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,...

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...

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.