Akio Isono Movies

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

33-year-old poor writer Ogata was able to endure his miserable life cheerfully thanks to Yoshie, a 19-year-old innocent young wife. After graduating...

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

Japanese movie from 1934. The final film of director Hôtei Nomura, who died from a stroke suffered at a screening of this film.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Following the accidental death of a logging boss in the Kiso mountains, a local thug pressures the boss's daughter into marriage. When the boss's new...

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

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...

Strip dancer Carmen falls in love with Hajime, who is engaged to the daughter of a right-wing politician.

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky.

A young girl gives up high school to help out family expenses and starts to work as a bus conductor.

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

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

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