Hiroshi Koizumi Movies

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in TohoScope.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

In a small Tohoku town, family tensions rise when a sick mother’s care leads to conflict over a mistress joining the household....

Sazae's wish came true and she got married to Masuo. The two ended up living together at Sazae's parents' home, the Isono family. However, the...

A rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past...

Minako, a runaway from Osaka chasing her dream of becoming a singer, struggles through poverty, failed jobs, and exploitation in Tokyo. With the help...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World...

Yakuza boss Furuya leans more and more on his protege Takao Shoji, though Shoji has become romantically involved with Furuya's mistress, Natsue....

An Ishiro Honda film.

Yukiko Nogami is rescued during a mountain blizzard by handsome forester Shinkichi, and the two subsequently fall in love. But when Shinkichi dies in...

In 1979 Toei president Shigeru Okada saw the future. More precisely, he saw Walter Hill's The Warriors in the US prior to its Japanese opening. Okada...

A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is...

Japan and Russia clash in what comes to be known as the Russo-Japanese War. An attempt by the Japanese fleet and army to take Port Arthur fails, and...

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population...

A wandering Jirocho stumbles upon his wife's possible murder and has other adventures while on the run.