Hisaya Ito Movies

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Story of a gangster (Mihashi), newly released from prison, who specializes in blackmail. His standing in the underworld declining, he makes the risky...

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

A story of yakuza lynching during the Edo, Meiji, and Showa periods.

Story of romance and rivalry between two ad agencies vying for the same account with a pharmaceutical firm.

In World War II, the commanding officer of a sub, against his will takes on board two Western diplomats, to take them to the Canaries and arrange an...

Based on the life and career of novelist Fumiko Hayashi, she bitterly struggles for literary recognition in the first half of the 20th-century...

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

1961 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword. Her father has found her a man to...

Story of an ex-sailor, caught up in a murder mystery involving gold dust buried in Manchuria, while romancing a woman whose father may be the center...

A group of criminals whose diamond heist goes wrong retreat to a WWII era bunker where tensions begin to rise.