Hiroshi Hayashi
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1894-01-01
Locus Natus: Kyoto City, Kyoto, Japan
Et ut: Kan Hayashi, 林幹, 林干, 海上 晴帆
Attack from Space
The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or...
release : 1965.03.06popularis : 3.975
Zatoichi and the Chest of Gold
Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed two years ago. When some tax money is stolen...
release : 1964.03.14popularis : 4.267
Evil Brain from Outer Space
An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle...
release : 1966.01.21popularis : 6.666
Atomic Rulers
Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!
release : 1965.04.10popularis : 8.623
Jigoku
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
release : 1960.07.30popularis : 8.182
Hiroba no kōdoku
Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta
release : 1953.09.15popularis : 1.467
The Ghost of Yotsuya
This horror tale relates the consequences of a Japanese legend which tells of a man who has to betray his wife in order to achieve power.
release : 1959.07.01popularis : 6.173
Modern Chivarly: Sworn Brothers
After the enactment of the Anti-Prostitution Law, the red-light district in Shinjuku lost its allure. Even the gambling den of the Ryūzaki...
release : 1970.01.20popularis : 1.889
Invaders from Space
A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind....
release : 1965.05.31popularis : 6.317
Death Row Woman
Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her...
release : 1960.03.13popularis : 0.681
Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet.
release : 1956.07.21popularis : 0.92
Super Giant: The Spaceship and the Clash of the Artificial Satellite
The 6th Super Giant film. Although he was believed to be destroyed by the Nazi-like army, Super Giant breaks into the satellite, and a long, riotous...
release : 1958.01.03popularis : 2.272
Super Giant Continues
The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. (Part 2 of 2)
release : 1957.08.13popularis : 1.97
The Ghosts of Kagami Pond
A store manager named Kinbei becomes enraged when the owners of the store decide to hand it down to an adopted son instead of him. He hatches a plot...
release : 1959.07.01popularis : 0.634
Lust of the White Serpent
A work with the motif of a legend that remains in the mountain villages of Shinshu and Hida. A white snake helped by a young man transfers to a...
release : 1960.09.19popularis : 0.976
Super Giant: The Artificial Satellite and the Destruction of Humanity
The 5th Super Giant film. Super Giant pursues a Nazi-like army that operates on a huge satellite in space. The satellite is armed with weapons that...
release : 1957.12.28popularis : 3.24
Godzilla
Japan is thrown into a panic after several ships are sunk near Odo Island. An expedition to the island led by Dr. Yemani soon discover something far...
release : 1954.11.03popularis : 30.06
Yakuza Wolf 2: Extend My Condolences
Attacking Asao Uchida's lonely, clifftop mansion in no-holds barred massacre.
release : 1972.11.07popularis : 1.343
Seven Samurai
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...
release : 1954.04.26popularis : 32.644
Ikiru
Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...
release : 1952.10.09popularis : 17.236
Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed
Japanese historical horror movie from 1957.
release : 1957.01.09popularis : 1.261
Daughters, Wives and a Mother
Sanae is left a widow after her prestigious husband dies, but holds the proceeds of a million yen insurance policy. Being childless, her former...
release : 1960.05.21popularis : 1.774
Woman Diver's Terror
Chie, who's chosen as 'Ms. Woman Diver', and her friend Yuki, have been missing for several days after they left for Tokyo to be interviewed by a...
release : 1957.07.22popularis : 1.692
Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni
The last film produced by Shintoho.
release : 1962.06.02popularis : 1.44
Emperor Meiji and General Nogi
In January 1904, the situation between Japan and Russia had grown tense. The Emperor Meiji is deeply concerned, for Russia has started to build an...
release : 1959.11.01popularis : 2.252
An Inn at Osaka
An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka...
release : 1954.04.20popularis : 3.104
The Devil's toast
Retired police inspector Kurusu is vacationing at a seaside hotel when one night he hears a child's screaming...but there are no children staying in...
release : 1947.10.21popularis : 2.008
Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War
Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the...
release : 1957.04.29popularis : 2.852
Decisive Battle at Kuroda Castle
After the massacre of Christians at Shimabara, followers of Amakusa Shiro band together in a plot to overthrow the shogunate in order to exact...
release : 1960.05.28popularis : 2.624
Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo
A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his...
release : 1957.07.10popularis : 1.669
Shitto
Japanese mystery film directed by Michiyoshi Doi.
release : 1962.01.03popularis : 1.239
Stormy Virtue
Yuri is looking forward to marrying her fiancé Minoru. However, a few days before the wedding she falls victim to his brother Takehiko, and...
release : 1959.04.03popularis : 3.312
南郷次郎探偵帳 影なき殺人者
Japanese mystery film marking Yuka Mizuhara's film debut.
release : 1961.04.19popularis : 1.13
Kaachan
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
release : 1961.03.15popularis : 1.446
The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal
In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the...
release : 1959.01.03popularis : 6.78
Prison Walls of Abashiri, Part 2
Two convicts just released from prison find a green bauble filled with diamonds — and try to prove they didn't steal it.
release : 1965.07.10popularis : 2.513
The Big Boss
Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...
release : 1959.01.15popularis : 2.351
The Cannery Boat
Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.
release : 1953.09.10popularis : 3.622
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric...
release : 1956.05.18popularis : 17.231
Brutal Woman
Tired of poverty, Keiko leaves home and soon takes a lover, but leads a wanton life without paying heed to his advice. However, the younger sister...
release : 1960.06.04popularis : 1.028
The Mother Tree
A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her....
release : 1958.07.13popularis : 1.418
Super Giant
The 1st film in the Super Giant movie series, in which the title hero saves the world from foreign terrorsts threatening Japan with a nuclear attack...
release : 1957.07.30popularis : 0.529
怒号する巨弾
At the end of the Greater East Asia War, young Amada Koichi and his father were wrongfully accused as spy suspects and his father died in prison...
release : 1960.11.12popularis : 1.347
History - Part I
History film directed by Tomu Uchida.
release : 1940.05.15popularis : 1.707