Torahiko Hamada Movies

1958 Toei movie.

The Chase after Opium Dealers

Patrol car 108 is on the prowl in Tokyo when it comes across a suspicious small truck. When the policeman investigates he is shot and the truck makes...

Nikkatsu finally responds to Suzuki's growing discontentment by giving him a bigger budget and a better script. This episodic collection of "real...

Tsuiseki is a 1961 crime film.

The story follows Tomoko, a writer who becomes involved in a strange and distant relationship with Shingo, a married novelist. Though they haven't...

Based on a story by Akiyuki Nosaka.

A truck driver from Toyama discovers he has contracted leukemia, a condition linked to his past exposure to nuclear fallout while working as a...

A demobilized soldier becomes a day laborer with a road construction gang, and his wife goes to work to bolster their income. Their modest dream is...

1968 Japanese movie

First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.

1962 Japanese movie

Inspired by the issue of rescuing former Japanese soldiers reportedly still surviving on Lubang Island.

In the Kurume-Arima domain, Lady Okuni and the chief retainer conspire to poison the eldest son of the Arima family in order to install the second...