Hisaya Morishige Movies

A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just...

1958 Theater of Life adaptation.

The 22nd film in the Ekimae series about shop-owners living near Akabane Station, Tokyo.

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control.

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film.

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she...

The 16th "Ekimae" feature.

As the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated...

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives.

After their lord is unjustly sentenced to commit seppuku, Oishi Kuranosuke leads a group of 47 loyal retainers on a mission of vengeance against the...

Penultimate 23rd "Ekimae" comedy is about oil-field exploration.

Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"

Eighth in the Ekimae series, portraying competition between two hot spring resort owners in Yamanashi.

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

In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo...