Akio Isono Movies

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

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

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

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

Machiko and Haruki’s drama continues. Machiko is not allowed to see Haruki. They finally meet again, but Haruki departs to Europe.

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

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

A story of a store that makes Tabi socks.

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

A businessman runs afoul of the law and commits suicide, leaving behind a wife and five children. The eldest son takes the family to Tokyo and labors...

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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

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,...