Isao Kimura Movies

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

1960 Toei film.

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

An ethical, young tax collector new to his area encounters increasingly absurd individuals and groups coping with their post-war woes.

Young Lord Taihei goes to Edo to find the lost family treasure, a plover incense burner, under the disguise of a ronin.

After the death of his parents, railway worker Yuichiro Murofushi returns to his hometown and agrees to an arranged marriage at the insistence of his...

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan.

This story takes place at a school under the new educational system. It all began when a love letter addressed to Takeshi Kodama, the straightforward...

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by...

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

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

1967 Japanese movie

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...

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