Hisaya Morishige Movies

Third film in the "Ekimae" series set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for...

Ensemble comedy.

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...

1950s Japanese comedy.

The movie depicts the strength and resilience of a woman who spent her entire life as a merchant in Semba, Osaka.

Shûe Matsubayashi movie

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

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

The 22nd film in the Shacho comedy series.

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...

#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to...

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real...

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

Set in Osaka just after the end of the war, the story depicts an unconventional merchant who returns from evacuation. The film is based on the novel...

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...