Shōichi Hirose Movies

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...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

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

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

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...

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

A heartwarming depiction of the episode behind the birth of "Golden Bat," a picture story show that was overwhelmingly popular with children in 1935.

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

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

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

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...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

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

An Ishiro Honda film.

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