Shōichi Hirose Movies

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

Koji Tsuruta plays dual roles: Kyotaro, the young master of a pharmaceutical wholesaler in Osaka, and Ken, a street thug in Tokyo.

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....

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

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where...

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...

Tragi-comedy about the inhabitants of a remote, mountain-locked village where only the first-born sons are allowed to marry and have children.

A police procedural surrounding murder at a bookstore and the private lives of the cops trying to solve the case.

Shuichi, a young doctor working at a hospital in Bangkok, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy Chinese trader.

1955 Japanese movie

The fourth "Diary of a Successful Salaryman" feature.

After being mistaken for counterfeiters by the police, an inventor and reporter try to track down the real counterfeiters.

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

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.

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...

Ex-conman Junpei plots revenge on a corrupt corporation by leading a team of swindlers posing as politicians. A slick crime comedy of cons and...

Japanese neo-noir crime drama movie directed by Jun Fukuda