Isao Hashimoto

The Battle of Port Arthur: Will Love Die?

An epic of love and death that depicts how soldiers and ordinary people lived and fought during the Russo-Japan...

Submersion of Japan

In this TV series of the hit 1973 film, Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes shake Japan. Firestorms burn beautif...

The Imperial Navy

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship...

Station

A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police office...

Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron

Kumokiri Nizaemon, a former samurai warrior, has abandoned his class to become the leader of a gang of thieves....

Willful Murder

The president of the Japanese National Railways is found dead during a period in which train service is plagued...

August Without Emperor

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V...

The War in Space

The year is 1988, and in the midst of recovering from a near-miss with a large comet, Earth finds that there ar...

Village of Eight Gravestones

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band...

Kill!

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local...

Love on Rainbow Island

Japanese counterpart to Romeo and Juliet

The Long Darkness

The relationship between Tetsuro, a university student from a disgraced, burdened family, and Shino, a waitress...

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an acciden...

Cash Calls Hell

Before leaving prison, Oida uncomfortably enters into an agreement with his cell mate: in exchange for a half-s...

Main Line to Terror

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that...

Rainbow Kids

A wealthy matriarch is kidnapped by a gang of three. She is insulted by the amount of money they propose to dem...

Young People

"Young People" is a story about the lives of four brothers and a sister, Sato. After the death of his parents,...

Hymn to a Tired Man

During WWII, Zensaku, middle-aged and deaf in one ear, learns that his son has fallen for the daughter of a war...

Human Revolution II

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

Onna Nezumi Kozo

Auto Town

The Empty Table

One year after the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resul...

Double Suicide of Sonezaki

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is...

Wings of Icarus' Flight

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The...

The Cold-Hearted Sea

A film adaptation of the novel of the same title written by Hiroshi Hatayama (畑山博).

Comedy actors: Cooper and Gable

This film is an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Hisashi Inoue, which tells the story of a comedian...

The Last Judgment

Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arr...

Ore wa inaka no puresurī

Messengers to Satsuma

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spie...

Forward, Young People!

The second film tells about the life of matured brothers and sister Sato. Taro became a foreman. He saves every...

Cry of the Mountain

The Washing Machine

Kizaki, who moved to Tokyo from the Kansai region to become a manga artist, is assigned to work at a used elect...

Banner of the Young

The final part of the trilogy. It is about a younger brother, Suekichi. He learned well the lessons that life t...

Dangerous Encounter

A woman's life is irrevocably altered when a young murderer stumbles into her home.

Kigeki: Onna ikitemasu

Comedy centered on a stripper agency

Gomez's Name is Gomez

Company engineer sakamoto (tatsuya nakadai) is returning home after two years in the desert and visit his frien...