Shōichi Hirose Movies

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

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

An Ishiro Honda film. The second part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the first film.

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where...

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

A wandering swordsman helps a doll maker and his fiancée fight against a ruthless gang in a small town. As tensions escalate, epic duels and...

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives.

Eternal young guy, Yuzo Kayama stars in this fifth installment of the Young Guy series. Young Guy returns to the swim team from the first movie, ...

1955 Japanese movie

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo...

A heartwarming depiction of the episode behind the birth of "Golden Bat," a picture story show that was overwhelmingly popular with children in 1935.