Akihiko Hirata Movies

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

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has...

Film directed by Senkichi Taniguchi

Four fishermen friends are caught up in a piracy plot.

Banjun organizes a group of con men to fleece the greedy and rich.

A mining engineer investigates the deaths of his colleagues, discovering prehistoric nymphs and a creature capable of flying - and wreaking havoc -...

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.

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

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...

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...

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

A story depicting the challenges faced by today's youth in working to build a better tomorrow, based on the theme of Toshiba's progress as one of...

Captain Gomes uses a flying battleship to battle the giant robot Daitetsujin 17. Theatrically-released abridgement of Episode 15 of the TV series.

In Hong Kong an International Secret Police (ISP) Agent is murdered while investigating ZZZ, a group bent on assassinating the Prime Minister of...

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted...

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

1962 Japanese movie