Akihiko Hirata Movies

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

Dr. Nishiyama has to combat increasingly bizarre events on which seem all too familiar to the French prophet Nostradamus's predictions.

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

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...

Forced on the road by yakuza obligations, a man sets out on a reckless journey to Tsumagoi. Movie posters for local cinemas were often displayed at...

1962 Japanese movie

Soemon, the master of Gidayū-style madcap performances, has gathered the entire tenement block again tonight and is tormenting everyone with his...

A despicable boss uses a husband's “promotion” as bait to assault his subordinate's wife (Chieko Matsubara). The wife finally kills him,...

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Modern comedy social drama about a reporter (Mihashi) for the Toto Shimpo determined to scoop his rivals during the murder investigation of the...

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking...

The sixth film of the desperado outpost series directed by Takashi Tsuboshima

Film number six in the Desperado Outpost serie directed by Jun Fukuda

Chaos ensues when a secret agent gathers a group of criminals (The Crazy Cats) to steal gold from a bank.

The film is composed of stock footage from the original Ultraman television series with additional newly filmed content, and it served as an...

1964 Japanese movie

Chōsokabe Kyutaro, notorious as a master swindler, abandons Tokyo and flees to Watakano Island near the Shima Peninsula. Upon hearing that the...