Shōichi Hirose Movies

During a winter visit to her grandfather’s mountain home, a young saleswoman becomes entangled in love and jealousy among visiting skiers....

An Ishiro Honda film.

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

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

In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo...

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

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

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

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

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.

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

The fourth "Diary of a Successful Salaryman" feature.

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

Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Chinese trader.

When an invisible man is run down by a car it’s up to an eager young reporter and a strange clown to bring a dangerous gang to justice.

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

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