Shōichi Hirose Movies

The eleventh film in the comedy series starring Japan's leading comedy group, the Crazy Cats. Susumu Sakamori and his friends travel to Mexico to...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Koji Tsuruta plays dual roles: Kyotaro, the young master of a pharmaceutical wholesaler in Osaka, and Ken, a street thug in Tokyo.

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

1955 Japanese movie

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

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 rebellious heiress clashes with gangsters, dodges an arranged marriage, and unexpectedly falls for a principled lawyer as her father confronts past...

Klima, Deputy Minister of Industry of the Republic of Alabanda, has come to Japan to purchase materials for the water dam construction. Kitami, who...

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

A short compilation film made to be shown at Takarazuka Family Land which takes footage from several Showa era Godzilla films.

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, ...

The dramatized tale of the 1935 creation of Japan's first superhero, the "Golden Bat", alongside the changes during and after the Second World War,...

A satirical comedy starring Makoto Fujita, depicting the two East and West con artists swindling illicit money from bad guys.

Two young women start their first jobs at a construction firm.

When noble wanderer Moritaro saves a disowned merchant’s son from gangsters, he becomes entangled in a town’s struggle against...

International thief Zivaco, who can assume any identity, eludes the authorities and battles rival thief WCWC for a rare gold samurai sword.