Kazuo Hasegawa Movies

The Way of Drama unfolds in the world of kabuki in Osaka, but also addresses the politics of popular culture and the rivalry between theatrical...

Period film from 1934.

1952 Japanese movie

A crime boss gets out of prison and tries to find who from his organization betrayed him.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

In the age of priests and warriors which the film denounces, a woman revolts after she is sold as a prostitute.

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...

1948 Japanese movie

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

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 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...

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

Hiromasa Nomura World War II era film

The first half of the movie depicts a man's jealousy of his best friend and the woman he love. The second part depicts a hero who is ready to put the...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.