Akihiko Hirata Movies

The third installment in the Shacho Series.

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Osami, a soldier-of-fortune from Japan, joins with priest Ensai in a quest for the ashes of the great Buddha. Their journey takes them to a kingdom...

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...

Gang of robbers quarrel about the loot, but when one of them gets killed, his younger brother seeks them out to ice them one by one.

A crime story (with strong elements of comedy) that pits a determined detective against a gang of pickpockets in Osaka. The detective (played by...

1962 Japanese movie

Comedy-fantasy about a salaryman (Tani) and his imaginary friends. A kind of Walter Mitty, Japanese-style.

A 1964 war film directed by Kengo Furusawa

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

An employee at an oil cartel (Mihashi) is haunted by an act years before when he euthanized a fellow soldier when the two were adrift at sea during...

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

Violent delinquent Shunpei is sent to Totsuka Yacht School, a grueling rehabilitation center. The principal fears that this "half-wolf" is too much....

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

An ad campaign for a TV show called the “Male Training Contest” stirs chaos at a major electronics company. PR staffer Takayama opposes...

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of sexual assault; he soon meets several impostors in the same situation.

An Ishiro Honda film.

An Ishiro Honda film.

A private detective and a colleague investigate a man for a wealthy young lady.