Hikaru Hayashi Movies

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...

A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a...

A group of one-hit wonder scam artists led by the troubled "Kanpai," dealing with impotence, embark on a lively and poignant societal comedy. They...

Takeshi Yasui, a junior high school student is found dead in a river. The police investigate it as a murder related to bullying. The dead boy turns...

After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends...

A documentary about the lives of actors in the Sakura-tai theatrical troupe, which had arrived in the island of Hiroshima to begin preparations for...

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that...

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

One day, Reiko, who is engaged, meets a young man named Kondo, and she likes him, although she has a fiancé. On top of this, Reiko, suffering...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

The golden duo of Yoshitaro Mura and Kiyoshi Atsumi brings you a full-on comedy filled with laughter and melancholy set in Kitakyushu. Matsujiro...

Costa Rica is one of few countries in the world to abolish its military. This documentary focuses on education, children and a co-operative in the...

A little girl tries to sell matches on a cold December night with no luck. To keep from freezing she lights one match and sees a wondrous vision...

Spending time with her boyfriend on a lonely beach, a girl suddenly remembers the Hiroshima bombing of 1945. He, in turn, remembers the 1960 riots...

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of...

A stop motion puppet animation by Tadahito Mochinaga.

Documentary on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Shindo personally interviews survivors and attempts to interview the commander of the B-29 that...