Akio Isono Movies

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

The movie follows a young woman (Kinuyo Tanaka), a daughter of a high-ranking businessman and his neglected mistress, as she struggles to ease her...

Shochiku melodrama about the lives of the humble people living in the poor tenement called the Ryuheiso.

A young, talented singer (Misora) is orphaned, not once but twice, and has to turn to a rather unlikely, and unwilling, parental figure, while...

A melodrama by noted auteur and father of director Yoshitaro Nomura, Hotei Nomura. This is apparently the first adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's The...

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

The seventh film in the popular series starring the Yotamono trio (Mitsui, Abe and Isono). Summer came and the three of them decided to open a store...

Japanese home drama starring Kinuyo Tanaka.

Japanese silent film from 1928.