Shirô Izome

Acting

Shirô Izome

Born — Died

1907-03-08 — 1943-06-23

Known for

Acting

Credits

16 titles

Known for

Film credits

1940s · 8 titles

1930s · 8 titles

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

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

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

Tokyo Rhapsody poster
8.0

Film adaptation of the hit song

Tokyo Rhapsody

1936

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gion Shigure

1933

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kokoro no jitsugetsu: Retsujitsu hen - Gekko hen

1931

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

銃後に咲く

1934