Daizaburo Hirata Movies

On January 26, 1948, a robbery of the Teigin bank took place in Tokyo - the criminal poisoned the bank employees and fled the scene with a large...

A romantic story about a knight who becomes involved in the murder of his brother's wife and ultimately confronts the local yakuza.

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the...

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the...

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

1962 Japanese movie

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

This is Akira Kobayashi's first leading role in a gangster film in the ninkyo-eiga genre. Together with Joe Shishido, he stars in a film about the...

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has...

Bastard tablets that hunt down the crooks behind the gambling world of horse racing, bicycle racing, and car racing.

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying...

A movie-loving nanny lives and works in the home of a university professor and eventually becomes the family's support system, leading a bright and...

A film about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...