Hajime Izu Movies

A carefree student from a traditional sake shop family balances love, rebellion, and a bike race while clashing with gangsters and his old-fashioned...

Chōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula. Upon hearing that the...

In post-war Japan, The Second Drawer follows Funada, a devoted company man whose planned family trip is disrupted by the sudden death of his boss....

A wealthy young man, engaged through family arrangement, meets a humble shop girl after she finds his lost ring. Their growing affection challenges...

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...

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

When Mr. Kurano, a shady Osaka tycoon, had his mistress Yuriko Haruyama run off on him, he hired the bumbling detective Hanawa to track her down....

Aiko, a bar hostess, falls for the son of a company president who also keeps a mistress, and whose family disapproves of his relationship with the...

In a household of three the husband is a salaryman who lives with his younger sister and wife in Tokyo. He is returning home late in the evenings...

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...

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

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

Film directed by Yasuki Chiba, based on the novel of the same name by Tatsuzou Ishikawa.

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...

Portmanteau film about young lovers.