List of the best Hisashi Igawa movies: Rhapsody in August(1991), Bullet Ballet(1998), Akira Kurosawa's Dreams(1990), Ran(1985), Dodes 'Ka-Den(1970) ... ...
Drama
1991
98 Minutes
Tadao
Richard Gere Sachiko Murase Tomoko Ohtakara Hisashi Igawa Narumi Kayashima Mitsunori Isaki Hidetaka Yoshioka Mie Suzuki
elderly woman brother nephew grandchild widow american emotional frenetic japan city mountain house nuclear attack world war ii siblings death horrors of war discovery quest 1990s
An American relative (Richard Gere) visits four teens and their grandmother (Sachiko Murase) near Nagasaki.
Drama
Japan
1998
87 Minutes
Kudo
Shin'ya Tsukamoto Kirina Mano Tatsuya Nakamura Takahiro Murase Kyôka Suzuki Hisashi Igawa Katijah Badami Gabriela Bravo
A man sees his life changed forever when his fiancee shoots herself. Baffled, he wants by all means to obtain such a weapon of destruction and he finds himself caught in the middle of a ... See full summary »
Drama
1990
119 Minutes
Nuclear Plant Worker
Akira Kurosawa Akira Terao Mitsunori Isaki Martin Scorsese Mitsuko Baishô Mieko Harada Chishu Ryu Hisashi Igawa Toshihiko Nakano Yoshitaka Zushi Toshie Negishi
young boy art student vincent van gogh soldier young man elderly man profound creative moving japan mountain forest countryside tunnel field childhood environmentalism nature war art
Filmmaker Kurosawa follows the life of "I" from boy (Mitsunori Isaki) to man (Akira Terao) in eight episodes of themes like war, nature and nuclear horror.
Drama, History
Japan|France
1985
160 Minutes
Shuri Kurogane
Tatsuya Nakadai Mieko Harada Akira Terao Jinpachi Nezu Daisuke Ryu Yoshiko Miyazaki Kazuo Kato Masayuki Yui Hitoshi Ueki Hisashi Igawa Takeshi Nomura
lord son brother messenger fool dark bleak castle japan greed revenge betrayal death conspiracy injustice fall pursuit rivalry 12th century
In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.
Drama
1970
140 Minutes
Yoshitaka Zushi Kin Sugai Toshiyuki Tonomura Shinsuke Minami Yûko Kusunoki Junzaburô Ban Kiyoko Tange Michio Hino Keiji Furuyama Tappei Shimokawa Kunie Tanaka
disabled person mother father son artist young woman moving engaging japan slum dump shack poverty outsider's life aspirations family rape alcoholism adventure growing up