Shōichi Hirose Movies

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

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...

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

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

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

An Ishiro Honda film.

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

US dubbed and edited version of the Japanese film Rodan. A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow co-workers and discovers prehistoric...

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....

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