Shōichi Hirose Movies

Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a...

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

The fourth "Diary of a Successful Salaryman" feature.

Agent Jiro Kitami attempts to stop a smuggling ring from shipping arms to Vietcong guerrillas.

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds.

A short compilation film made to be shown at Takarazuka Family Land which takes footage from several Showa era Godzilla films.

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

When a rare species of butterfly is found in a mysterious valley in Japan, a pair of entomologists go to investigate and find more. They discover...

A prehistoric monster called Gigantis emerges alongside another creature named Angurus.

The legend of the birth of Shintoism. In Fourth Century Japan, the Emperor's son Ouso expects to succeed his father on the throne, but Otomo, the...

​Ryukichi, the pampered heir to a cosmetics wholesaler, abandons his wife and child to pursue a scandalous affair with a famous geisha named...

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Lady Snowblood is caught by the police and sentenced to death for her crimes. As she is sent to the gallows she is rescued by the secret police who...

Lt. Col. Senda resists the idea of sending Japanese fighter pilots on suicide missions. He believes that what is really necessary for Japan to regain...

Men are being murdered by a killer who uses a matter-transmitting device to locate his victims.

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...