Sumao Ishihara Movies
- 1954
Sansho the Bailiff
Sansho the Bailiff8.11954HD
In medieval Japan, a woman and her children journey to find the family's patriarch, who was exiled years before.
- 1972
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance
Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance7.41972HD
In this first film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, adapted from the manga by Kazuo Koike, we are told the story of the Lone Wolf and Cub's origin....
- 1953
Gate of Hell
Gate of Hell7.11953HD
Japan, 1159. Moritō, a brave samurai, performs a heroic act by rescuing the lovely Kesa during a violent uprising. Moritō falls in love...
- 1954
The Crucified Lovers
The Crucified Lovers7.71954HD
When the wife of a 17th century Kyoto scroll-maker is falsely accused of having an affair with his best employee, the pair flee the city and find...
- 1939
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum7.91939HD
In late 19th century Tokyo, Kikunosuke Onoue, the adopted son of a legendary actor, himself an actor specializing in female roles, discovers that he...
- 1963
Shinsengumi Chronicles
Shinsengumi Chronicles6.51963HD
As winds of change sweep Japan, an honest man joins the Shinsengumi out of admiration for its leader, and because he wants to live and die as a...
- 1960
Satan's Sword
Satan's Sword6.41960HD
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazato's unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last...
- 1966
Zatoichi's Vengeance
Zatoichi's Vengeance6.81966HD
Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of money to "Taichi". Zatoichi has no idea who this is but when he comes upon a small town...
- 1954
The Woman in the Rumor
The Woman in the Rumor7.41954HD
Yukiko's fiance learns her mother runs a geisha house and ends their engagement. She despises what her mother does until one of her clients shows...
- 1953
A Geisha
A Geisha7.51953HD
Eiko seeks out Miyoharu, a geisha, and asks to be her apprentice. When she is ready to receive clients, both women want the right to refuse certain...
- 1963
Zatoichi the Fugitive
Zatoichi the Fugitive6.81963HD
After arriving in the town of Shimonita, Ichi finds that a price has been put on his head by a local yakuza boss. He's drawn into a trap, but after...
- 1967
Zatoichi the Outlaw
Zatoichi the Outlaw6.41967HD
When a local gambling house kidnaps some peasants because they failed to pay their debts, a rival gambling house pays their debts and sets them free.
- 1963
Bamboo Doll of Echizen
Bamboo Doll of Echizen7.61963HD
Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.
- 1962
The Temple of Wild Geese
The Temple of Wild Geese6.31962HD
Satoko is a mistress by trade or fate: when her master, the silkscreen artist of the Kohoan Temple in Kyoto, dies, she is given to the temple's...
- 1962
The Fencing Master
The Fencing Master5.51962HD
The Fencing Master tells the story of a man trying to survive as the only world he knows is becoming increasingly irrelevant. Danpei Ichikawa lives...
- 1955
Taira Clan Saga
Taira Clan Saga7.11955HD
Special Forces commander Captain Tadamori returns to Kyoto after successfully defeating the uprising of pirates in the western sea of Japan. But...
- 1948
The Grand Master
The Grand Master01948HD
Shogi, a Japanese form of chess, is a game that requires skill and determination. When poor sandal-maker Sakata decides to pursue his dream of...
- 1956
Sisters of Gion
Sisters of Gion01956HD
- 1958
Conflagration
Conflagration71958HD
Learning of his family's collapse, acolyte Goichi, sent to study silently at the Temple of the Golden Pavilion, must endure acute psychological...
- 1961
The Gambler's Code
The Gambler's Code6.51961HD
One of Japan's most popular stories is the tale of Kutsukake Tokijiro, a traveling gambler who finds that he must take care of the wife and child of...