Shōichi Hirose Movies

In feudal Japan, during a bloody war between clans, two cowardly and greedy peasants, soldiers of a defeated army, stumble upon a mysterious man who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Ushinosuke returns to his hometown to become a farmer. Part three (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi’s novel, Oban.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

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...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Daisuke Katō

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

The sixth "Japan's No. 1 Man" feature. Followed by "Japan’s No. 1 Disconnected Man".

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A woman struggles to raise her young son on her own in postwar Japan, finding companionship with a kind laborer while still hoping for the return of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

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

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ryō Ikebe

Men are being murdered by a psycho called "The Telegian," who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

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.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Denjirō Ōkōchi

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Matsumoto Hakuō II

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

Wang Xinglian returns from her studies in Japan to visit her father in Hong Kong where she has an encounter with the young Japanese Hasegawa Toru....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lucilla Yu Ming

After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yōsuke Natsuki

In Japan, scientifically advanced invaders from the war-destroyed planet Mysteroid cause an entire village to vanish, then send a giant robot out to...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara

Astronauts Glenn and Fuji investigate Planet X and encounter mysterious aliens known as the Xiliens, who ask Earth's people to help save their world...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Nick Adams

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival businessmen are struggling for control of the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Aspiring to an easy job as personal physician to a wealthy family, Noboru Yasumoto is disappointed when his first post after medical school takes him...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Searching for his brother, Ryota stows away on a boat belonging to a criminal alongside two other teenagers. The group shipwrecks on Letchi island...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Myron Healey

Two fishing scout pilots make a horrifying discovery when they encounter a second Godzilla alongside a new monster named Anguirus. Without the weapon...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Koizumi

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akira Takarada

Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Frankie Sakai

The legendary empire of the lost continent of Mu reappears to threaten the world with domination. While countries unite to resist, an isolated World...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadao Takashima

Nuclear tests create a radioactive man who can turn people into slime.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Akihiko Hirata

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tadao Takashima

The advertising director of Pacific Pharmaceuticals, frustrated with the low ratings of their sponsored TV program, seeks a more sensationalist...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Tadao Takashima

A librarian is subject to a scientific experiment which goes wrong and transforms him into 'The Human Vapour'. He uses his new ability to rob banks...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Yoshio Tsuchiya

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An adaptation of the Rankin/Bass cartoon, "The King Kong Show". King Kong is brought in by the evil Dr. Who to dig for Element X in a mine when the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Daisuke Katō

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Robert Dunham

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

When an underhanded pharmaceutical company goes to a remote tropical island to steal King Kong for advertising purposes, they get more than they...

Genre: Action

Cast: Michael Keith

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

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Makoto Satō

A comedy featuring The Golden Bat

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A submarine expedition to salvage the remains of Mechagodzilla is thwarted by a massive dinosaur named Titanosaurus. An Interpol investigation leads...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Katsuhiko Sasaki

A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a cast of wacky characters involved in a gold smuggling route from Beirut to Tokyo.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Takarada

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

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

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kōzō Nomura

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

A humble and simple Takezo abandons his life as a knight errant. He's sought as a teacher and vassal by Shogun, Japan's most powerful clan leader....

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother...

Genre: Action

Cast: Meiko Kaji

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military...

Genre: Action

Cast: Russ Tamblyn

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

An Ishiro Honda film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An Ishiro Honda film.

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Cast: Yaeko Mizutani

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Hitoshi Ueki

Hoping to find a sense of connection to her late mother, Gorgeous takes a trip to the countryside to visit her aunt at their ancestral house. She...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kimiko Ikegami

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ikko Furuya

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

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

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Cast: Akira Takarada

Mining engineer Shigeru investigates the disappearance and death of his fellow coworkers when prehistoric nymphs are discovered emerging from the...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kenji Sahara

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Akira Takarada

Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Kurosawa's tightly paced, beautifully composed "Sanjuro." In this companion piece and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote...

Genre: Horror

Cast: John Carradine

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Setsuko Hara

US dubbed and edited version of the Japanese film Rodan. A mining engineer investigates the death of his fellow co-workers and discovers prehistoric...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Kenji Sahara