Mitsuru Hirata Movies

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

A former yakuza returns to gangster life after an old enemy threatens his son.

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love...

Kyoko (Sakura Ando) works as an insurance agent. Due to a series of unfortunate events, she brings shame to her family and has to leave her hometown....

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter....

Kaido is a professional pickpocket who works the Tokyo subway with his young foster-daughter, Rei: She lets herself be groped while Kaido relieves...

When friends graduate from junior high school and are enrolled in high school Koichi and Yakko join a motorcycle gang. They make new friends, have...

Yu Miri is a writer who's just become pregnant by her married lover. When she decides to keep the baby without his help, her ex-boyfriend Yutaka,...

A story of the skilled brain surgeon, Todo, whose talent and ambition are put to test through a series of high risk surgical procedures.

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

An exciting 'psychic movie' starring Kanako Enomoto, adapted from the manga series by Yukio Tamai. Police detectives searching for clues related to a...

In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka...

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...

This coming-of-age story from Japan opens just after 17-year-old Sataka has gotten dumped by her boyfriend. When her mother is hospitalized with a...

Fourteen-year old student Ayumi has leukemia and starts losing hair. She becomes depressed but receives overwhelming support from her classmates when...

Yuichi is a freeter who has lazy days. He receives an allowance from a woman that he lives with. Tomoko is a housewife. Yuichi and Tomoko meet...