Direction: Itsumichi Isomura

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Itsumichi Isomura. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Mother's Trees

2015 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Takahiro Miura · Ayaka Morita · Mirai Shida · Kyoka Suzuki

Plot Mitsu Tamura (Kyoka Suzuki) is the mother of 7 sons. Her sons are sent to the battlefield and 6 of her sons die on the battlefield. To mend her broken...

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Close Your Eyes and Hold Me

1996 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Kumiko Takeda · Kazuya Takahashi · Natsue Yoshimura · Kunihiko Ida

Plot A beautiful exotic dancer vanishes after being struck by a car. The driver, an engaged businessman named Amane, tracks down the victim at a transvestite club, where an unexpected passion...

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Tokyo Rhapsody

2007 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Itsumichi Isomura · Shinobu Yaguchi

Cast Ryôhei Abe · Yoshikazu Ebisu · Miki Hayashida · Ayumi Ito

Plot "Tokyo Rhapsody" consists of 11 short films all centered around the music genre known as "Kayokyoku". Kayokyoku is a catch-all term to describe the music that defined two generations of...

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Piecing Me Back Together

2010 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Keiko Kitagawa · Nene Ohtsuka · Masaki Okada · Wakana Chisaki

Plot A young woman named Izumi (Keiko Kitagawa) suffers the loss of her boyfriend Junichi (Masaki Okada), who died from a fatal motorcycle accident. The shock from her boyfriend's sudden death...

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Ganbatte ikimasshoi

1998 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Rena Tanaka · Mami Shimizu · Wakana Chizaki · Kirina Mano

Plot Etsuko - a typical Japanese high school student, who's unlucky in love, an academic failure, and plain bored with life.

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Gege

2004 · Movie · 113 min. · Japan

Direction Itsumichi Isomura

Cast Takao Osawa · Yuriko Ishida · Sumiko Fuji · Arata Furuta

Plot Takayuki (Takao Osawa) is an elementary school teacher in Tokyo. He is seized with Behçet's syndrome, and will gradually lose his sight. He resigns from his job and leaves his...

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