Isao Kimura Movies

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "Stray Dog" (1949).

1950s Japanese drama.

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

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

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

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

Based on the Nobu Koito story

A gangster named Sagara killed a broker at the request of a friend named Oba, was arrested and spent eight years in prison. Now released, he wants to...

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...

A college graduate falls in love with a woman during a business trip in Hokkaido

A wealthy Japanese sugar factory manager in Hawaii finds his wife sinking into depression and madness.

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

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

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.