Izumi Ashikawa Movies

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

A young girl travels to Ginza and fulfills her dream of singing to help the children of a poor orphanage and is mistaken for the missing...

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

One day, after the ceasefire in the Vietnam War, Maroku Ohno rushed into an American military position. He had been wandering inland, unaware that...

An adaptation of Sono Ayako's “Campus 110.” A youth comedy satirizing student life and contemporary society.

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

1962 Japanese movie

A sailor is stuck in the harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins...

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

The movie is about a man who started a brothel to make money out of his poor circumstances in the late Meiji period.