Hikaru Hayashi Movies

A story of Japanese writer Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), a man about sixty with a huge reputation of seducer who falls madly in love for a young geisha...

Just after WW2, a romance between an innkeeper and a man with tuberculosis unravels near a thermal spring.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Four sexually hungry high school students preparing for their university entrance exams meet up with an inebriated teacher singing bawdy drinking...

A tea master and his daughter Ogin are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with a married feudal prince who shares her faith. When...

A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles.

A sex-obsessed woman, a suicidal man she meets on the street, and a gun-crazy wannabe gangster become trapped in an underground hideaway.

A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been...

It is based on the story of The Ballad of Narayama updated to the present day, with the substitution of putting a parent into an old people's home...

Based on Haruko Ōta's memoir.

Toward the end of World War II, middle-aged soldier Keita is entrusted with a postcard from a comrade who is sure he will die in battle. After the...

Tatematsu Minoru, a yakuza belonging to the Ishikawa group that runs the Shinjuku area, has a beautiful sister named Akane. He dreams of sending her...

Asako, a former telephone operator once heard the voice of a murder suspect which has continued to haunt her. Years later her husband invites his...

The ship Kaijin Maru is left adrift after losing all means of navigation in a storm. The four people on the ship are becoming increasingly desperate...

A woman takes revenge on her husband after he leaves her for a younger woman by harassing the couple with unwanted phone calls at night.

The disturbing story of a physician who conducted the first operation with general anaesthetic, and the women in his life who are both so determined...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dialogue to camera by Nobuko Otowa, addressing the...

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

An opportunistic department store clerk gets involved with three women and attempts to manipulate them so he can move up the social ladder.