Hisaya Morishige Movies

A longtime hotel employee (Morishige) struggles to bring his old-fashioned ryokan in line with postwar Japanese business practices.

1950s Japanese comedy.

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.

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

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Could I But Live

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

Centred on Aonari Hyokichi, a young literary man with aspirations to become a writer, and the surrounding people, including Kira Tsuneo and...

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

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

1962 Japanese movie

A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.

Shûe Matsubayashi movie