Hiroshi Ayukawa

Demon Spies (1974)

Deep in the mountains of feudal Japan, a group of children endure cruel and unorthodox training in order to become the Shogunate's most secret and deadly weapons - the Demon Spies! Their true identities are hidden - even from each other. Behind their demon ...

The Woman Who Calls for Corpses (1973)

Japanese horror movie from 1973. ...

Hatoba de akuma ga warau toki (1962)

Japanese action film distributed by Taiho. ...

I Love Money More Than Anybody (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza (1961)

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku". ...

Maboroshi Tantei: Yûreitô no Daima Jutsudan (1960)

Third and last "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata. ...

Maboroshi Tantei: Kyōfu No Uchūjin (1960)

Second "Maboroshi tantei" film, based on the manga by Jiro Kuwata. ...

Black Line (1960)

Freelance reporter "Scoop" Machida is hot on the trail of a prostitution ring called the Black Line, when he is framed for the murder of a young woman. Forced to clear his own name, the handsome journalist sinks deeper into the Black Line's rotten swamp o ...

Tōkaidō yajikita chin dōchū (1959)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Kingorō no kaigun taishô (1959)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Naked Princess and Mysterious Bear Man (1959)

This time around, Sashichi is investigating a case of serial murders believed to be perpetrated by a giant bear. ...

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Chests Covered In Fresh Blood (1959)

Sashichi investigates the mysterious murders of four beauties, all of whom were stabbed in the chest. ...

Judo Queen (1959)

1959 Japanese film directed by Morihei Magatani for Shintoho. ...

No Police (1959)

Japanese crime film. ...

The Lady Vampire (1959)

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about the artist who painted it, but he goes by the name Shiro ...

Broken Blossoms (1959)

War drama about army nurses. ...

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal (1959)

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl Harbour. Victories follow for Japan on land and sea and ...

Holiday in Japan -Chapter 2- (1958)

Part 2 of Holiday in Japan ...

The Mother Tree (1958)

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From the afterlife, the painter's ghost seeks revenge on the ...

Holiday in Japan (1958)

Japanese comedy film released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Shintoho's founding. ...

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War (1958)

Soldiers' Girls (1958)

Women endure hardship and struggle to keep away from prostitution in the immediate aftermath of WWII. The "Special Comfort Women Association" (RAA) creates a shelter for women to avoid falling into prostitution. Young Fumiko and Yuko will try their luck th ...

Hibari's Triple Role: The Transformation of Yukinojo — Part II (1957)

Hibari's Triple Role: The Dazzling Transformation of Yukinojo (1957)

Super Giant Continues (1957)

The 2nd Super Giant film. Super Giant continues his battle against the foreign terrorists. In return, they frame him for murder. ...

The Military Policeman and the Dismembered Beauty (1957)

The year is 1937, and it has been six months since the Sendai Infantry left for Manchuria. The rotted corpse of a young woman is found at the bottom of a well, but her face and limbs are gone. The military police begin an investigation and search fervently ...

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo (1957)

A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer. ...

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War (1957)

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends their son off to war. As such, it could be considered an a ...

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed (1957)

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi's lineage, specifically from his wife, Fushihime. Outraged but fa ...

The Ceiling at Utsunomiya (1956)

Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga. ...

President Rai of Kingoro (1956)

A humorous salaryman comedy about the president of a beer company who is said to be President Rai. The third work after the Kingoro's Soldier and the "Kingoro's Officer". The original work is Kuni Sasaki, the adaptation is Yasunori Kawauchi of "The Officer ...

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets (1956)

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet. ...

Appeal on the Cross (1956)

Kusuo Abe stars in this kaidan. ...

Daigaku no kengō: Keiraku no abarenbō (1956)

Japanese youth film about kendo. ...

The Fencing Collegian (1956)

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo. ...

Kuronekokan ni Kieta Otoko (1956)

Comedy-horror film by Masaki Môri. ...

Morishige is a Fake Gentleman (1955)

Scammer Horikawa Shinbei hopes to make a quick buck using Namie, a stripper under his control. ...

Nonki saiban (1955)

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taking the wrong course, the crime of seducing, and the crim ...

Mysterious Dwarf (1955)

The daughter of a wealthy family goes missing at the same time a mysterious dwarf is running around town scattering body parts in public areas. ...

Enomoto's Heaven and Hell (1954)

Keita, after his death, was taken to the court of heaven as Defendant No. 1361, where his past was projected. He was formerly a favorite of the Meriken Circus troupe, yet he sinned by exposing a certain woman. During the screening, he realizes what he h ...

Submarine Ro Hasn't Surfaced (1954)

Japanese war film. ...

Five Sisters (1954)

The story of five sisters. ...

Madam of the first class and husband of the third class (1954)

Domestic comedy produced by Shin Toho Studios directed by Komori Kiyoshi and starring Todoroki Yukiko and Ito Yunosuke. ...

First-Rate Wife, Third-Rate Husband (1953)

Natsuko Kayama, an authority in the beauty industry and once known as Miss Tokyo, is a first-class wife. Her husband, Senkichi, on the contrary, is a good-natured man and slow-witted. They are rarely seen together, and others often criticize them for being ...

Yasen kangofu (1953)

In 1942 South China, hardened field hospital nurse Yukiko secretly loves Sergeant Nemoto. The arrival of a fragile new nurse, Keiko, reawakens Yukiko's warmth but also sparks intense jealousy when Nemoto shows Keiko kindness. As the two bond over a shared ...

The Battleship Yamato (1953)

The film is about the Yamato's suicide mission to Okinawa in March 1945 to defend the homeland threatened by U.S. bombers. Adapted from Mitsuru Yoshida's 1952 book "Requiem for the Battleship Yamato". ...

Geisha Waltz (1952)

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. ...

Dimple of Tokyo (1952)

Buntaro, the president of a food trading company got tired of the day-to-day routine of life. The new secretary, Nobuko, suggested her "shacho-san" (the president) run away from the job. Nobuko took Buntaro to her home and introduced him to her own family ...

Lil's Return from Shanghai (1952)

In pre-war Shanghai, a man falls in love with a mysterious woman, but she eventually disappears. Back in Japan, he is obsessed by her memory and tries to recreate the world he knew then. ...

I Was a Prisoner in Siberia (1952)

Akatsuki no Kyūshū (1951)

Japanese drama film. ...

New Yuuden (1951)

Jidai-geki by Kiyoshi Saeki (Part 1 of 2) ...

Golden Beast (1950)

On a Sunday morning, young dentist Toshio Ezaki wakes up with a hangover, on a bench in his office. He finds a poisoned woman in a green-striped Western-style outfit lying in his exam room. He must retrace his blurry steps of the night before, and navigate ...

When We Came Back (1950)

Melodrama by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Duel in the Sun (1950)

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Mr. Shosuke Ohara (1949)

Saheita, the final heir of a once rich and respectable family, can't refuse the many villagers that come to him for favours and money, even though he is on the brink of bankruptcy. Around town he is better known by his nickname Mr. Shosuke Ohara. ...

Endless Passion (1949)

Comedy by Kon Ichikawa ...