Writing

Isao Kumagai

Born

1934-03-28 (92)

Known for

Writing

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Sunshine Girl poster
5.7

A young factory worker struggles to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

The Sunshine Girl

1963

The Irresponsible Fool poster
7.0

Picked up and raised on an island in the Seto Inland Sea, Yasukichi's only trait is his innate mischievousness. However, because his love for his hometown is exceptionally stronger than anybody's, he is trying everything he can to somehow help the inhabitants of the island which are going through a recession. He saddles himself with a debt to bring a cheap band onto the island and tries to market the underwater sightseeing ship on the island without regards for the Marine Act.

The Irresponsible Fool

1964

Deeper Than Blue poster
8.0

About a girl who marries in the middle of the Pacific War, is widowed at 18, and her unflagging struggle to survive during and after the war with her son.

Deeper Than Blue

1973

Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu poster
9.0

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu

1971

Follow the Girls poster
8.0

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Follow the Girls

1971

High-School Outcasts poster
7.0

Tsutomu (Kensaku Morita), an orphan who once stabbed a man, is released from a reformatory and goes to Tottori, on the Japan Sea coast, to enter a high school. On the beach, he meets a young fisherman, Yusuke (Norihiko Yamamoto) also a student of the same school. They become friends and Tsutomu is offered free board at Yusuke's home.

High-School Outcasts

1970

Charming Men poster
9.0

One day, when Goro (Kiyoshi Atsumi) returns to his poor tenement house from a trip on a deep-sea tuna boat, his neighbor's daughter Haruko (Mitsuko Baisho) also returns from the juvenile classification center on the same day. However, at a welcome party held by Goro for Haruko, a drunk friend crashes into Haruko's house with a dump truck and is forced to leave. Goro plans to marry Haruko to a rich man and force her to pay dowry, but...

Charming Men

1970

Umarekawatta Tamegorō poster
NR

A drifting gambler named Tamegorō befriends a weary salesman and helps connect him with a nightclub hostess whose father has just been released from prison. In a rapidly industrializing coastal town dominated by yakuza influence, Tamegorō becomes entangled in gang conflicts and the exploitation of local workers. As he grows attached to the struggling people around him, the carefree drifter finds himself driven toward an act of rebellion against the corrupt underworld controlling the city.

Umarekawatta Tamegorō

1972

Two People in the Rain poster
NR

Yuki Takeshita (Akiko Nakamura) comes to Tokyo from a remote area of ​​Niigata in search of her older sister, Kiyo (Kyoko Aoi), whom she was separated from at a young age. However, Tokyo is an unknown land for Yuk

Two People in the Rain

1966