Movies: Isao Kimura

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair....

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

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As a young woman, Oriko condemned her widowed mother for openly pursuing relationships with younger men. After her mother passes away, she finds herself in an unhappy, loveless marriage and begins to understand her mother’s actions....

Woman private eye Emiko goes undercover to reveal the truth of a murder case....

1967 Japanese movie...

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan....

Military doctor Leutenant Hanada deserts during the war in the Philippines with a local girl. The officer in command orders Lieutenant Uji to shoot Hanada. Uji takes a sharpshooter called Takagi and tracks him. At first Uji cannot forgive Hanada but ...

Japanese drama....

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

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

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The last Japanese soldier in 16 years who survived...

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In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known as Misaki Shogoro, who was infamous for his devilish cruelty. Shogoro had a rule: he would kill all t...

Second delivery in the "Yakuza Hijoshi" series. The protagonist, played by Ando Noboru, is torn between the organization and his old friends....

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn about Kitani's past and reasons behind his prison sentence....

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

Ryutaro Otomo as the Edo magistrate Umon Kondo is out to solve a crime that centers around the murder of a jail guard & the escape of a criminal who is later himself killed. His dying words in Umon's arms were, "I didn't kill the guard." The murdered...