Hideo Shibuya Movies

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

In an effort to find an economic means of purifying salt water, a joint U.S.-Japanese military command is set up on an isolated Japanese island where...

"When human beings venture too far along a trail made by wild beasts, it is said, they quite often discover themselves on a road of no return." ...

A squadron of Japanese fighter pilots realise that they are never going to win the war when they understand that Japanese military tactics have...

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

Historical drama about a sleep-eyed ronin

An Ishiro Honda film. The first part of A Rainbow Plays in My Heart released the same day as the second film.

Saburo and Keiko fall in love with each other but the tide of war separates them.

A screwball tale of a suspected “lady thief” and the detective who is on her trail, following her from Osaka to her home village, where...

The story of a couple, a spoiled son and a down-to-earth girl, in Osaka in the early Showa era. The film won the prestigious Blue Ribbon awards for...

A group of friends try to find success in corporate Japan.

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

A Japanese artist (Ikebe), who had won the favor of the Cambodian royal family when he rescued their daughter during World War II, returns and falls...