Akihiko Hirata Movies

Toho-produced crime drama involving the drug trade.

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her.

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

After Ryusaku Nishikawa and his girlfriend Katsuko are attacked by a gang, he trains in karate to seek revenge. Years later, Ryusaku is a skilled...

1964 Japanese movie

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...

Drama of a disillusioned youth, with writer-actor Ishihara starring as the young man at odds with his bickering parents and scheming brother, while...

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

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

A young man gets thrown into detention after an episode of attempted rape. He soon meets several individuals claiming to be ministers of their own...

A student, running late on the day of the University of Tokyo entrance exams, calls in a fake bomb threat in order to arrive on time.

The first of two films based on the novel by Futaro Yamada.

The 1965 Japanese yakuza film is the last episode of the Ankokugai series.

1962 Japanese movie

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...

1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.

Directed by Hiroshi Inagaki, the drama, set in the brothels of Shimabara in post-war Kyoto, is a moving look at the lives of women of tenacity and...

A youth drama set in the Japanese alps. Two robbers, chased by the police, escape from the youths of a university mountain club who are trapped in a...