Hisaya Morishige Movies

Comedy about a dress designer at a big Tokyo department store, and his relationship with three female associates.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Docudrama about Rikidozan. When Rikidozan is accused by a school teacher of selling autographs to children for ¥50 apiece, "Riki" (as he was...

Part one of The Masterless 47.

A struggling salesman at World Electric finds his major deal blocked by internal politics and pressure from all sides. During a company trip to...

An aging company president pushes a youth-focused corporate fitness campaign but struggles to keep up himself.

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and...

A comedic retelling of the legendary encounter between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamato Musashi.

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

A study of uneasy relationships among the inhabitants of a tiny rural community.

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity...

"Shacho" comedy about the president of a salt manufacturing company.

Film about a station master's romance with a young prostitute.

A cosmetics company president launches an aggressive new business strategy while balancing corporate pressure, romantic entanglements, and a...

The story of Sanshiro Sugata, a young man who wants to learn the new art of judo. A wise teacher reveals to Sanshiro that judo is not merely a means...

Jirocho and his followers chase the Kurokomas into the Kai Province.