Kazuo Hasegawa Movies

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

1948 Japanese movie

A colourful study of theatrical life. Two acting troupes vie for the Kyoto market during the Genroku Era. Tojuro, an extremely popular actor, feels...

Wartime propaganda filmed by the Japanese in occupied China, Shirley Yamaguchi portrays an orphan rescued from the streets by a kindly Japanese...

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his...

When Sentarô’s father is killed by a drunken samurai, Sentarô avenges him. His deed puts him on the run and leaves his sister...

This film stars Tanaka Kinuyo as the mother of the heir to the Hosho name, a famous lineage of Noh actors. The heir, Hosho Yagoro, is played by...

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

Follows the Japanese lieutenant of the invading 228th Infantry Regiment Toichi Wakabayashi, who died in the Battle of Hong Kong.

Drama about a couple and how they found themselves related with music, their egos and each other.

A newlywed couple faces tension when the wife, after her husband leaves for work, becomes completely unmotivated to handle household chores and goes...

The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost. Even a...

A 1930 silent film from director Eichi Koishi, following the adventures of Edo firefighter Sanji.

Government-sponsored film set during the Pacific War, depicting the lives of people working as stevedores.

Police detective Heiji is assigned to catch the masked Maboroshi gang of robbers who have terrorized all of Edo leaving few clues as to who their...

A young vassal is betrayed by his corrupt lord.

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...