Chikara Hashimoto Movies

As alien invaders plot to conquer the Earth, two Boy Scouts steal a mini-submarine and discover Gamera in their midst. Transported to the alien's...

The story is presented as a voiced-over narrative by Arita (Takahiro Tamura), speaking long after the events of the film. In a remote army base in...

A former soldier, reduced to working at a restaurant post-war, becomes a contract killer for the yakuza gangs he's in contact with.

One of many adaptations of "Onna no isshō", this time by Yasuzo Masumura as a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo.

A fishing village is terrorized by a giant whale, and the fishermen are determined to kill it.

Can a sinful man change and find peace? It's unlikely in gang-plagued Japan. Jokichi of Mikogami, a drifter (and hired sword), goes straight after...

The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Teruo Tanashita, Mari Atsumi plays a pickpocket trying to get hold of a valuable but...

A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.

1962 Japanese movie

Takeshi Ijuin leaves for Chicago to be a cameraman, and a few years later returns to Japan. But he only learned the technique of homicide in Chicago....

Yasuda plays Omon, a woman using bamboo leaves as darts/blades to disable and kill her enemies.

A wandering gambler strolls into a village searching for his father's killer, unaware that the village is run by criminals who sell the poorest...

In the book of the world's greatest rogues, the number one man can only be one person.