Daizaburo Hirata Movies

A woman, Tome, is born to a lower class family in Japan in 1918. The title refers to an insect, repeating its mistakes, as in an infinite circle....

Volunteering as a "comfort woman" on the Manchurian front, where she is expected to service hundreds of soldiers, Harumi is commandeered by the...

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Kuroda is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers,...

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the...

Young Mariko is torn between two admirers, Natsukawa and Rikizo.

Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic...

A film starring Teruhiko Saigo and Hideki Takahashi about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.

1962 Japanese movie

A boxing melodrama. Two friends become boxers and begin training for the championship. These two boys eventually face each other in the ring.

A man who was released from prison wanders around the Kanto region and gets involved with the local yakuza.

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

1964 Nikkatsu Theater of Life adaptation.

Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a...

An original warrior directed by Toshio Takagi, directed by Eisuke Takizawa of “Kiriko's Tango” by Toshio Yasumi, a comedy, cheerful...

Joe Shishido is an ambitious bike racetrack tout who becomes inadvertently involved in a triangle with a vulnerable prostitute (Izumi Ashikawa) and...

The Nami family lives in a quiet fishing village at the tip of the Shima Peninsula overlooking Ago Bay. The family of four consists of her...

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

1961 Japanese movie

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has...