Kazuo Hasegawa Movies

1942 adaptation of Izumi Kyoka's novel.

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

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...

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

During the 1200's, legendary Buddhist monk Nichiren returns from his studies to lead Japan out of moral crisis and prepare to fight Mongol invaders...

The Siege of Osaka

The doomed love story between a young courtesan and a samurai, in Kyoto.

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...

short film about Banchō Sarayashiki.

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

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

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...

War-time jidaigeki by Eisuke Takizawa.

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

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...