Shirô Izome

Acting

Shirô Izome

Born 1907-03-08

Acting credits

The Crown of Life poster
NR

Two brothers run a factory canning crabs. The elder brother Kotaro is righteous and insists on honesty. The younger brother is fixated on money. They are polar opposites. When a boat sails out looking for crab and does not return one day the brothers begin to argue over how to run their facility. They had just received a large order from a foreign country and had obtained a loan from a lender that needed to be repaid.

The Crown of Life

1936

Five Scouts poster
6.0

During the Second Sino-Japanese War, a five-man reconnaissance unit is dispatched to scout enemy positions in a volatile territory. After a sudden and intense firefight, the group is separated, leaving the survivors to wait in agonizing suspense at their outpost.

Five Scouts

1938

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gion Shigure

1933

New Snow poster
8.0

Minowada, a young teacher at a National People's School, has his own theory of education and the daughter of his linguistics teacher becomes drawn to him. Kayo, a strong-willed doctor, is also attracted to him. A mediator tries to arrange a marriage but just at that point Minowada receives military call-up papers.

New Snow

1942

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Footprints in the Snow

1942

The March of the Restoration poster
NR

The first film produced by Daiei.

The March of the Restoration

1942

Submarine Number One poster
7.0

This film begins with a teacher describing to his students how brave the crew was which died as result of Japan's first submarine accident. The film then follows two of the pupils, one becomes a submarine captain and the other designs submarines.

Submarine Number One

1941

Umi Yukaba poster
NR

Depicting the International Disarmament Conference and the Japanese Navy’s Struggle.

Umi Yukaba

1943

A Pebble by the Wayside poster
6.3

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi), made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a young boy brought up entirely by his mother since his drunken father is never home. An intelligent teacher wants to send him to middle school, but instead the father apprentices him to a clothing store to which he is in debt. The mother dies and the boy is forced to quit work when his father insults the store owner. Later the boy goes to Tokyo, but only to continue his hardships. First he is forced to do a maid's job at a boarding house and later is used by an old woman to steal at funerals. Finally he is rescued by the teacher, whom he meets in Tokyo.

A Pebble by the Wayside

1938

Mud and Soldiers poster
7.0

A group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village is captured. Norimoto’s body is recovered and buried. Over the next two days, the soldiers advance inland. Two more soldiers, Naito and Takahashi, are injured. They remain behind to recover, but vow to catch up. Their comrades march on...

Mud and Soldiers

1939

The Tale of Jiro poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Tale of Jiro

1941

Tokyo Rhapsody poster
8.0

Film adaptation of the hit song

Tokyo Rhapsody

1936

No artwork available
7.5

History film directed by Tomu Uchida.

History - Part I

1940

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The General, Staff and Soldiers

1942

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

銃後に咲く

1934

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

1931