Hikaru Hayashi Movies

A rural high school takes part in a mountain-climbing exercise and are caught in a sudden typhoon.

Hideo is sold in marriage to a Japanese farmer in San Francisco to settle her family's debt. Over the next 20 years, the couple works hard and raises...

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

After his company goes bankrupt, Katsuji Watanabe resorts to pickpocketing again with his old swindler buddies. However, one by one, his friends...

A headstrong young man seeks to join the Shinsengumi, but while his determination impresses his superiors, questions begin to arise as to his true...

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups.

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

A young boy joins a band of ninja during a peasant uprising, all depicted through an experimental form of filming pages from the original manga set...

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

The men who surround and torment the young protagonist (demanding teacher, owner of the company that rapes his own daughter, despotic and...

aka Libido.

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata...

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.

A little girl tries to sell matches on a cold December night with no luck. To keep from freezing she lights one match and sees a wondrous vision...

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...

The Chase after Opium Dealers

A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a...

An employee in an assurance company threatens to commit suicide when management announces a massive layoff, the company uses this threat to its own...

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

1962 Japanese movie