Izumi Ashikawa Movies

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

The monologue and mysterious death of a man who survived and returned from Iwo Jima. A newspaper reporter writes an article about "The Man from Iwo...

Genre: War

Cast: Shirō Ōsaka

Ryoji, a wanderer, arrives in a remote mountain town, carrying a shotgun and claiming to be a hunter. He quickly becomes embroiled in a web of...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kotobuki Hananomoto

Japanese drama film, originally released in two parts.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koreya Senda

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The young Takako Kuramoto has come to Tokyo to study and starts working for the rich Tashiro family as tutor of the daughter, Kumiko, while she...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Masako Izumi

Wada Kōji is a chivalrous young man who leads a group of youths that take on a yakuza boss.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kōji Wada

Japanese action film set in Arabia.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to...

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Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A sailor is stuck in harbor due to an engine failure in his boat, and he learns that a friend of his has died, reportedly from suicide. He begins to...

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Azusa has just been discharged from the hospital and is frolicking on the beach in Jushi, finally getting her freedom. Her older sister, Kozue, looks...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiji Miyaguchi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sanae Nakahara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

It’s been five years since her husband had passed away. Fuyuko lives in the quiet suburbs, in a small but loving home with her three beautiful...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a...

Genre: War

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst....

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Upon discovering that her father has a mistress, a young girl befriends the "other woman" and her child. Realizing that her half-sister is doomed to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

When a US army sergeant is found drowned in Tokyo Bay, an investigation is launched to determine how and why he lost his life. The investigation...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...

Genre: War

Cast: Mitsuo Hamada

The first postwar war movie depicting the tragedy of a special force that shook the world at the end of the Pacific War, with thrill and speed

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Cast: Ryōji Hayama

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Izumi Ashikawa

Genre: Drama

Cast: Miki Shimamura

A recently engaged couple deals with the stress of competing for $10,000 on a public access gameshow.

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Cast: Maverick Abram

At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

College students come up with a scam to rob a gambling house. When it comes time to collect, the money isn't there, leading the young men into even...

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

An anthology that embodies the essence of Toei action films with a stylish flair, this movie follows an aging hitman (Jō Shishido) on a quest to...

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

An early contemporary yakuza action drama.

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yuji Odaka

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tōru Abe

In the first group of Yoshitake Ichi and Taketatsu Sada Preparatory Training, the team leader was Sou Adachi, a veteran warrior with strict training....

Genre: War

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

The action of this historical drama takes place against the background of poverty and hunger in the city of Edo and depicts young people rebelling...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masahiko Tsugawa

A man is wrongfully accused of murder.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

An entertaining but silly and fairly forgettable action film with much tongue-in cheek James Bond influence

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A unique action drama in which a ruthless yakuza encounters a woman and realizes his true love as the conflict between the yakuza intensifies.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

The first film in the Fearless Guy series. Kosuke was part of a huge organized crime group, but decided to leave after his best friend died a brutal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Yajima Sadako is a bright pawnbroker's daughter in the third year of high school. At school, there is a young and handsome teacher Takei who has just...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A coming-of-age drama based on a novel by Kei Moriyama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Meiko Kaji

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Hey, please, hold me... A thrilling physical farewell gift that a pure-hearted adult received while trembling!! Set in a simple rural town's post...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara