Isuzu Yamada Movies

Throne of Blood

81/100

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

The Lower Depths

75/100

In a Japanese slum, various residents play out their lives, dreaming of better things or settling for their lot. Among them is a man who pines for a young woman but is stymied by her deceptive family.

Tôkyô boshoku

83/100

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot take the truth of being abandoned as a child.

Sisters of the Gion

77/100

Two geisha sisters lead a hard life in the Gion district of Kyoto. After one of them feels obliged to support a bankrupt businessman, the other sister sets up various schemes to get rid of him.

Osaka Elegy

74/100

A young woman becomes a mistress of her boss in order to support her family.

Black River

73/100

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.

Flowing

78/100

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo...

Orizuru Osen

73/100

In Tokyo, Osen is the servant girl of an unscrupulous antiques dealer, Kumazawa, who takes in the penniless Sokichi Hata...

Oyuki, die Jungfrau

68/100

During a war in the 19th century, a village linked to rebellious forces is attacked by the government army, so a rich family decides to run away; two courtesans travel along them.

Shozo, a Cat and Two Women

70/100

A timid man who has spent much of his life attempting without success to get out from under the domination of his mother, finds that marriage is no answer. His first wife is boring and ... See full summary »

Tateshi Danpei

70/100

Stage sword-fighting and fencing instructor and choreographer, or 'tateshi', Ichikawa Danpei was a man so focused on his art and job at hand that he fails to notice how the times are ... See full summary »

Chutaro of Banba

61/100

A chubby samurai must find the source of a mysterious smell that froze the facial expressions from all geisha from East Japan.

Hikage no musume

The Littlest Warrior

68/100

Zushio and his sister Anju are kidnapped and sold to a cruel slave-master. Will they ever be reunited with their mother again?

Evening Stream

72/100

Shibaidô

65/100

Five Men of Edo

64/100

During the 17th Century bands of hatamoto, samurai vassals of the Tokugawa shogunate, were causing havoc in the new capital city of Edo. Opposing them was Banzui-in Chobei,whose sole aim ... See full summary »

A Billionaire

65/100

Akujo no kisetsu

66/100

A rich skinflint, hated by his common wife (a previous Geisha) and his nephew, tries to follow his selfish...

Burden of Love

66/100

Jozaburo Araki is the head of a famous family-owned wholesale pharmaceutical store with a well-established history...

Gendai-jin

81/100

Home Sweet Home

68/100

Ojô Okichi

60/100

Joyu

84/100

Shiki no aiyoku

70/100