Eijiro Hisaita

Writing

Eijiro Hisaita

Born — Died

1898-07-03 — 1976-06-09

Place of birth

Iwanuma, Miyagi, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

19 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

High and Low poster
8.4

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur’s son but demand the ransom anyway.

High and Low

1963

The Bad Sleep Well poster
7.7

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corporate headquarters, but an aspect of the design reminds the party of the hushed-up death of Nishi's father. It is then that Nishi unleashes his plan to avenge his father's death.

The Bad Sleep Well

1960

The Idiot poster
7.0

A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.

The Idiot

1951

No Regrets for Our Youth poster
6.9

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, and wartime upheaval—ultimately forging her own path in pre- and post-WWII Japan.

No Regrets for Our Youth

1946

Apostasy poster
6.0

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Apostasy

1948

The Kii River poster
7.5

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform.

The Kii River

1966

Actress poster
7.0

During the late Meiji period, at the beginning of the twentieth century, Sumako, a country girl, becomes a great actress with the help of Hogetsu, a scholar who brought European realism to the Japanese stage. The relationship leads to the end of his marriage and the breakup of his Arts Society.

Actress

1947

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1 poster
6.6

Iemon Tamiya is an impoverished masterless samurai who craves a better life, which he cannot have because of his marriage to Oiwa, who is completely devoted to her husband.

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 1

1949

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2 poster
6.6

Part 2 starts where the first film ended, with Iemon disposing of the bodies of his wife and Kohei, marrying upward, and being blackmailed by the evil Naosuke.

Yotsuya Ghost Story Part 2

1949

Morning for the Osone Family poster
6.7

A Japanese family weathers much hardship after their military uncle comes to live with them during WWII.

Morning for the Osone Family

1946

A Million Girls poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

A Million Girls

1963

Firefly Grass poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Firefly Grass

1954

Mother Country poster
6.8

In 1919, a group of Japanese immigrants arrives in Hawaii. Among them Yoshio Inoue and his wife Kishimo and Sumi, a young woman ready to get married soon. With the soil that is hard to work and the subtropical climate, the immigrants have to cope with a hard life. But after years of hard work, Yoshio finds work as a teacher while his wife manages to open a small grocery store. But with the war around the corner, life becomes more and more complicated for the Japanese immigrants in a foreign country.

Mother Country

1962

Kare o korosu na poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kare o korosu na

1952

No artwork available
NR

Japanese film.

Haha no nai ko to ko no nai haha to

1952

No artwork available
10.0

1945 Japanese movie

Kanchō umi no bara

1945

Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love poster
NR

Even a peaceful married life has its dissatisfactions. Then a female reporter appears, and love takes a complicated turn!

Wife and the Female Reporter: A Crisis of Young Love

1950

No artwork available
NR

Japanese war film.

Quiet Dawn in the Front

1959

Samurai Nippon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Samurai Nippon

1957