Akio Isono Movies

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

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...

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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

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

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...

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

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...

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

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

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

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,...

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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...