Hisaya Morishige Movies

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

Coinciding with the LDP presidential election of the entire national public, a masterpiece depicting the reverse side of Showa political history...

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

Japanese drama.

The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.

7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

1950s Japanese comedy.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

Comedy based on the writings of Ango Sakaguchi.

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and...

1962 Japanese movie

Kotaro Shimoyama, once a government official, loses his job and separates from his wife, Sachie. He now resides with his daughter, Haruko. By chance,...

A motley cast of characters, including a human billboard and a shoeshine girl, help a 5 year old girl after she is separated from her mother on the...

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...

Shozo is plagued by the needs of his ex-wife and his current one, but prefers the company of his cat.

A man who seemed to have found happiness with a wife and child loses his wife and his daughter gets married... A man's life, full of joy and sorrow,...