Hikaru Hayashi Movies

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

While her son, Kichi, is away at war, a woman and her daughter-in-law survive by killing samurai who stray into their swamp, then selling whatever...

A Korean man is sentenced to death in Japan but somehow survives his execution, sending the authorities into a panic about what to do next.

In the Sengoku period, a woman and her daughter are raped and murdered by soldiers during a time of civil war. Afterwards, a series of samurai...

The world-famous woodblock artist Hokusai (1760-1849), a widower in need of a steady income, lives with his daughter Oei in the house of his friend...

Kenkichi Godai, a reporter for the social affairs desk, returns home after covering the war-torn Vietnam. Compared to Vietnam, with its gunpowder...

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts...

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form....

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

Bakyo is a talented but unsuccessful rakugo artist. The very successful Rokyu wants to take Bakyo under his wings, but Bakyo refuses, claiming that...

After an elderly man is discharged from a hospital following a misunderstood, life-affirming impulse toward a fellow patient, he finds himself caught...

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

A family of four are the sole inhabitants of a small island, where they struggle each day to irrigate their crops.

Ten years before the outbreak of the Second World War in Asia, a Japanese Go master and his Chinese rival meet in China to play a game of Go (loosely...