Hiroaki Fujii

Two Days with Yukio Mishima (2005)

This documentary, produced by Hiroaki Fujii in 2005, features the crew of Yukio Mishima's 1966 film PATRIOTISM recounting their filming experience. ...

Spring Snow (2005)

Based on the first novel, Spring Snow, of Mishima Yukio's Sea of Fertility tetralogy, it follows the troubled and illicit affair between two youngsters amongst the aristocracy and rich of early twentieth century Japan. ...

Merdeka 17805 (2001)

True story of a number of Imperial Japanese Army officers and soldiers who remained in Indonesia to fight off European colonists trying to retake the country after Japan's surrender. ...

Sanctuary (1995)

Akira Hojo and Chiaki Asami live different lives in Tokyo, Japan: Hojo is the leader of a small but rising Yakuza clan, while Asami is a politician aiming to become the youngest member of the Japanese parliament. But while they both live in different ways, ...

Crane (1988)

Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju and says she will become his wife... ...

Princess from the Moon (1987)

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter. ...

Actress (1987)

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

The Greatest Man in the World (1986)

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932 ...

The Hall of the Crying Deer (1986)

The Burmese Harp (1985)

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the lifestyle of a Buddhist monk. ...

Dream, After Dream (1981)

A young man starts off on a quest for happiness and is told to head south by a wise astrologer. He later arrives at an ancient castle where two mysterious women live, Tsuki and Yuki. Both women fall in love with the young man. Meanwhile, the young man must ...

The Garden of Eden (1980)

A young pick-pocket meets a sheltered teenage girl at an art museum while trying to lift her wallet. He falls in love with her and lures her to deserted strip of beach where he pretends his stolen motorbike has broken down and they are stranded. An unlikel ...

Double Suicide of Sonezaki (1978)

Suicide has long been used as a form of social protest in Japan. In this film, set in 1703, samurai culture is being transformed by the emergence of a new merchant class. Elements of the social contract are beginning to unravel, and some unscrupulous peopl ...

The Alaska Story (1977)

A Japanese sailor finds a colony of Eskimos in the Arctic and decides to stay with them. He comes off at a certain moment to look for his luck in the gold rush in Alaska. But he does not forget them. ...

Lullaby of the Earth (1976)

The story of an orphan girl, brought up in naive, rustic innocence by an elderly relative, who is suddenly exposed to the brutality, greed and deceptiveness of the outside world when her grandmother dies. ...

Main Line to Terror (1975)

Akiyama is an intern, disgusted with the noise pollution caused by the bullet trains and the heart attacks that noise has been causing in older hospital patients, plots to disrupt and, in ten days, destroy a unit of the operation. He warns the Japan Nation ...

Music (1972)

A young woman undergoes psychiatric treatment after she no longer hears music and develops sexual hang-ups. ...

An Ode to Yakuza (1970)

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 to college and turning her into a perfect young lady. He's extremely fond of Akane. His fondness for her go ...

Blind Beast (1969)

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by to ...

A Killer's Key (1967)

A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to influential figures in the political establishment. ...

That Complicated Guy (1966)

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. ...

Patriotism (1966)

Two characters on a Noh stage dramatize the rite of love and death of Lieutenant Shinji Takeyama and his wife Reiko. ...

A Man Worth the Money (1966)

Irezumi (1966)

Otsuya, the daughter of a rich merchant, elopes with her lover Shinsuke, an employee of her father's. During their flight, Otsuya's beauty attracts the gaze of Seikichi, a mysterious master tattooist who sees her pristine white skin as the perfect canvas f ...

Superexpress (1964)

A man operates a small real estate business near Osaka. A man from Tokyo asks for help in buying a large tract of land in order, he says, to build an automobile factory. But by accident the realtor learns that the Tokaido Railway Line is going to be built ...

Ken (1964)

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devo ...

Fools at Work (1964)

A comedy directed by Yasuzo Masumura starring Yunosuke Ito. ...

Sentimental Mobsters (1963)

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment! ...

Black Report (1963)

After a businessman is murdered, an investigation identifies a suspect who is then put on trial for that crime. ...

A Woman's Life (1962)

Based on Kaoru Morimoto oft performed 1945 play, a starring vehicle for famed actress Machiko Kyo as Kei an abused orphaned girl that eventually finds sanctuary with a wealthy family that trades goods with China and becomes a successful businesswoman. Ma ...

Ten Women in Black (1961)

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life. ...

The Woman Who Touched Legs (1960)

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn't arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the story about her parents who killed himself and died for overwork to feel sorry about her. ...

Across the Darkness (1959)

A journalist decides to do his own investigation after a series of strange murders are committed during a local election campaign. ...

Fires on the Plain (1959)

In the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier afflicted with tuberculosis is abandoned by his company and left to wander the Philippine island of Leyte. ...

Chikaiteshi (1957)

The Betrothed (1957)

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel. ...

The Phantom Horse (1955)

Following the tragic death of his father, a young boy's family trains his horse to compete in the local derby. ...

Two Days with Yukio Mishima (2005)

This documentary, produced by Hiroaki Fujii in 2005, features the crew of Yukio Mishima's 1966 film PATRIOTISM recounting their filming experience. ...

Joseph Losey: The Man with Four Names (1998)

Documentary about director Joseph Losey featuring many of his collaborators. ...