Hajime Izu Movies

A middle-aged journalist looking to make her big break. After working the same beat on the "women's page", Yumiko gets promoted to editorials.

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

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

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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...

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

A romantic melodrama about the shifting relationship between Ryosuke and Miki as their precarious employment and social circumstances shift around...

A woman remarries after receiving official notification that her husband has died, but he returns.

Jiban goes into action to save Yoko and several captured children from Doctor Giba's plot of creating the ultimate lifeform.

Directorial debut by Umetsugu Inoue, the famous director of Musicals

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa

Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa

Directed by Senkichi Taniguchi