Akio Isono Movies

Kinuyo is a daughter of doctor of Chinese medicine, and Yasuo is a son of surgeon. Their families always fight like cat and dog. This relationship is...

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

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

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

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

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

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

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...

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

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.