Hisano Yamaoka Movies

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...

Tokyo at night. It has another face, different from the daytime. Gorgeous neon lights and dressed-up women decorate the city at night. And then,...

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

Otowa is a former Seto Inland Sea island farmer who has moved to the mainland in order to find work, but instead ends up dead. The film begins with...

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

Yōko dreams of becoming a dancer and begins working with the famous musician Takeo.

1962 Japanese movie

A sophisticated comedy about love games between men and women that arise from an intentionally dropped train ticket.

1966 Japanese movie

Minoru visits his home on Okinoerabu island for the first time in thirty years. Seeing the old man who used to be in love with his mother, Minoru...

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.