Hikaru Hayashi Movies

A young Japanese woman comes to Peru to marry a man she has never seen in this somber drama highlighted by cultural differences. Her husband is a...

1962 Japanese movie

Film adaptation of the stage version of Samuil Marshak's "Twelve Months"

Spending time with her boyfriend on a lonely beach, a girl suddenly remembers the Hiroshima bombing of 1945. He, in turn, remembers the 1960 riots...

Based on the story by Kenji Miyazawa in which two hunters get lost in the woods and discover a strange restaurant which makes a number of...

A well-respected drama teacher confesses to his housekeeper that the atomic bombing of Hiroshima has left him impotent. With the coming of spring,...

aka Libido.

A divorced woman enters a marriage arranged by her mother in exchange for money to save the life of her seriously ill son.

Costa Rica is one of few countries in the world to abolish its military. This documentary focuses on education, children and a co-operative in the...

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer....

Provincial 14th century governor Moronao, attracted to the wife of a court magistrate, tries to seduce her and when she rejects his advances plots to...

A stop motion puppet animation by Tadahito Mochinaga.

A lifetime story of a woman who stubbornly lives in a poor mountain village in post-war Japan.

Focuses on the mutual antipathy of two groups of children in an Izu village.

Documentary on the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Shindo personally interviews survivors and attempts to interview the commander of the B-29 that...

A little girl tries to sell matches on a cold December night with no luck. To keep from freezing she lights one match and sees a wondrous vision...