Hajime Izu Movies

The last fight put up by remaining forces and a special volunteer nursing corps in 1944-5.

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

This film is strongly anti-war film. The film is based on the collection of writings by Japanese student soldiers who died during World War II. The...

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu,a scholar who brought some of European realism to the Japan's stage. The...

Mikami, a Japanese soldier, is captured by Chinese forces. Although able to escape, he is treated with contempt by his peers. After falling in love...

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Fictionalized account of 20-year-old Noriko Tsuji, a real-life victim of a severe birth defect which afflicted 8,000 Japanese, children whose mothers...

1950 Japanese film

A young lord joins gang of Robin-esque robbers.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.