Akio Isono Movies

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

Nagisa Harumi had moved to Tokyo dreaming of becoming a revue star, but she couldn’t even land a job as a dancer and ended up working as a...

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...

Mariko studies at a missionary school in Shinshu. She drops out of school and joins her father on a circus tour when she discovers that her father,...

1962 Japanese movie

Pre-war Asakusa was a riotous district of cabarets, dance-halls and brothels - a striking backdrop for Shimazu's story of innocence and experience....

A melodrama set in Kuroshima.

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...

Watanabe Kazuma and Kawai Matagorō from the Bizen Okayama Ikeda clan were close friends, but they inevitably became enemies after Matagorō...

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

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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

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

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

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

Japanese silent film from 1928.

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