Kazuo Hasegawa Movies

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Daiei Film Company's three biggest stars shine in this exciting story about Vice-Shogun Mito Komon's journey to the land of the Ainu. As the shogun's...

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

1948 Japanese movie

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.

This pair of gentle yet witty and inventive comedies from the director of The Neighbour's Wife and Mine typify both the formal experimentation of...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

1952 Japanese movie

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the...

Jurobei, a kaisen tonya (wholesaler in port) in Awa, was wronged and killed on the day of the Dance Festival by the evil merchant & the chamberlin....

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.