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...

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

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...

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.

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...

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

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...

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.

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

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

A privileged son betrays his family for the favors of a geisha in 18th century Osaka.

A teenage drama film about Makiko Hayashi, a top student who is aiming to get into University of Tokyo, together with a group of other students. She...

A Japanese adaption of the story of the Prodigal Son.