Shōichi Hirose Movies

A failed science experiment gives a librarian the ability to turn into a gaseous substance. He goes on to rob banks to fund his dancer girlfriend's...

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

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

Men are being murdered by a killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who...

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

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...

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...

A short compilation film made to be shown at Takarazuka Family Land which takes footage from several Showa era Godzilla films.

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

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

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

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

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

In this continuation of Discover Japan with the 5 Gents (Shacho sen ichiya, 1967), Shoji (Morishige) and his employees plan to build a hotel for Expo...

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...