Shinobu Hashimoto Movies

A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as...

A free-spirited girl living in a Japanese province spends her time working in a brothel and running with her dog. When her routine is shattered she...

Set in ancient Japan, Rashomon follows the aftermath of a bandit’s attack on a warrior and his wife, as the bandit, the wife, the husband, and...

Police beat a murder confession out of four innocent men who are then sentenced to death. Based on a true story.

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Following a yearlong attendance upon his shogun in Edo, samurai Hikokuro makes a long-awaited return to his home and doting wife, Dane. Initially...

A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko travels from her home in...

Witnesses of a murder. Remake of Akira Kurosawa film Rashomon.

This story depicts the struggles of a man living in the cutthroat world of competition and the pure love of his wife.

Two hundred million years ago, Earth had a single continent. As the millennia progressed, the single continent slowly split off into smaller...

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama...

Features a haunted well with yet another blind masseur's vengeful ghost.

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up...

In a Post-War Tokyo, when the bureaucratic chief of department of the City Hall Kanji Watanabe finds that he has a terminal cancer, he decides to...

In the Edo period of Japan, a samurai’s life belonged to his lord. On the battlefield or in the home, a loyal samurai must always obey his...