Rei Ishikawa Movies

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

Obscure Japanese movie by director Kyotaro Namiki

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

1961 Japanese movie

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped...

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan.

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder, but are too scared to report it to the police. In the meantime, an innocent man is...

Set against the 1877 Satsuma Rebellion, two Osaka families navigate the radical social shifts of the early Meiji Era. As the merchant class ascends...

Okiyo runs a restaurant in Asakusa. She struggles with the times and the relationships around her.

Japanese comedy film.

Japanese movie

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner.

Set in a rural area of Shinshu, a drama in which a woman who graduated from a women's college in Tokyo with her brother's efforts opens up a new life...

Film directed by Satoru Kobayashi.

Japanese crime film.

Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.