Isuzu Yamada Movies

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Jesuit priests in Japan during the 17th century are persecuted by the shogunate to for trying to spread Christianity.

Japanese film based on the life of writer Ichiyo Higuchi (1872-1896).

The story of the role played by Japanese-American soldiers from Hawaii in the Korean War of the 1950s.

Swordfighting instructor Danpei works at a local theater in Tokyo, instructing the actors how to fight realistically.

The Undefeated Woman

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits,...

A movie that depicts the tragic fate of many Yokaren flight-academy pilots.

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

Based on the novel by Toyoko Yamazaki.

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are...

A continuation of the prior film (影法師).

During the ultra-violent era of the downfall of the Tokugawa Shogunate one man rose above the rest with his ideas of how to overthrow the corrupt...

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo), a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada), whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status....

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the...

A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the...