Hiromichi Horikawa Movies

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...

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...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.

The second film in Toho's series on the military history of the Showa era, Hiromichi Horikawa's war drama offers a look at the career of...

Ex-jazz pianist turned promoter finds he is successful, but empty. When an entrepreneur sends him to Moscow with a jazz combo, he falls in with the...

Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arrested for murder.

Romantic drama about three beautiful sisters, based on the acclaimed play.

Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

A Jonan Station detective, Kikuchi, is framed for smuggling drugs and sent to prison. When he is paroled, he joins a private detective agency, where...

Japanese Drama film about the female experience during the war years.