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Yōjirō Ishizaka

Yōjirō Ishizaka

Writing

Biography

Yōjirō Ishizaka was an influential and popular novelist of post-World War II Japan. His work has been adapted into the big screen in more than 70 films.

Known For

Lost in the Rain
N/A

It tells about the women's view on love and marriage through the love affair of three women. Ayako, a rampant college student; OL Takako who works for a magazine company and Kimie, who attends the dressmaking school training to be a homemaker. The trio who graduated from the same high school moved to Tokyo from Akita, and they start living together in a rented house at Denenchofu, however.....

Lost in the Rain

1966
Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon
6.3

The life, adventures and exploits of warlord Date Masamune the One-eyed Dragon: his early youth as an aggressive warrior, the battles he won until subduing almost all his enemies, the lonely comprehension of knowing that he actually can not take over the whole country because he was born too late.

Date Masamune the One-Eyed Dragon

1942
A Story Written with Water
6.2

Struggling with his true emotions, dreams, memories of the past and the reality Shizuo is about to marry, but is torn between his wife-to-be and the love to his mother.

A Story Written with Water

1965
Beyond the Green Hills
7.0

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.

Beyond the Green Hills

1963
Bright Young Maidens
10.0

In order to get Kanako (Izumi Yukimura) married, her mother places a rental listing in the student medical school newsletter and attempts to find a suitable lodger who will catch the eye of her daughter.

Bright Young Maidens

1958
Someday I'll Know
9.0

A modern love story involving different affairs.

Someday I'll Know

1959
Forbidden Path
8.0

No description available.

Forbidden Path

1952
That Guy and I
8.5

Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

That Guy and I

1961
The Blue Mountains: Part I
6.4

Teacher Yukiko finds herself in opposition to conservative faculty and villagers after defending a student for being in a relationship with a young man from Tokyo.

The Blue Mountains: Part I

1949
Bright Sea
9.0

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.

Bright Sea

1963
Zoku izuko e
N/A

Sequel to "何処へ" (1966). A coming-of-age drama adapted from the novel by Yojiro Ishizaka.

Zoku izuko e

1967
Pomegranate Time
N/A

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

Pomegranate Time

1967
The Blue Mountains: Part II
7.1

Continuation of The Blue Mountains: Part I. Released a week later.

The Blue Mountains: Part II

1949
Kaze to Ki to Sora to
N/A

A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster.

Kaze to Ki to Sora to

1964
Beyond the Hills
N/A

Story of young love in the hills.

Beyond the Hills

1960
The Hill is Full of Flowers
N/A

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro Ishizaka. Miwako Kazuki left the English literature department and joined Toyo Critics. She was attracted by Noro, the editor-in-chief, whose wife died a few years ago and was now living with her two orphans and her old mother....

The Hill is Full of Flowers

1963
Born in Sin
9.0

A dark family secret sends a 21-year-old French student (Hoshi) on a journey of self-discovery.

Born in Sin

1962
Song of Farewell
N/A

After her mother's funeral, Yuriko, dressed in mourning clothes, sees off her lover Shintaro as he leaves in the powdery snow, and resolves to part ways with him forever. However, in Yuriko's heart... Pure love duo Yoshinaga and Hamada rigorously pursue a life of sincerity and love of the younger generation, and love but parting, in this lyrical and melancholy touching story of Ishizaka literature.

Song of Farewell

1965
The Final Winner?
8.0

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

The Final Winner?

1968
The First Kiss
6.4

Portmanteau film about young lovers.

The First Kiss

1955