Hikaru Hayashi Movies

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure...

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and...

Michi's first encounter with Nobuyuki Ishida, secretary to the chairman of a private school, takes place in the drawing room, when she attempts to...

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

The relationship between a rich young student and his lower class friend changes when they start to live both at a guest house. Both will be...

Michio Yamada, a recent school graduate, is sent to Tokyo to work as a fruit-packer in a department store as part of a government programme. He takes...

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

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

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

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

Three students spend their holidays at the seaside where they are mistaken for Koreans, a minority which is looked down on in Japan. The action...

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...

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

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...

Awaji, the president of a famous food company, is found murdered in a locked bathroom. with mummified human hands found all over the body. Taki, a...

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