Noboru Matsuhashi

Sunday Horror Series Best Selection 2 (2020)

Japanese horror anthology of 4 horrifying tales. ...

Odin: Starlight Mutiny (1985)

Odin centers around the novice crew of the laser sailing space schooner Starlight as they embark on an historic interstellar test flight. They are intercepted by what seems to be a wrecked spaceship only to find that it contains a lone survivor; a young wo ...

The Wangan Highway (1984)

Based on the novel of the same name by Yoshio Kataoka. ...

Ghost Story: The House Where Butterflies Live (1983)

Yoshinari Bessho, the feudal lord of Tanba Province, is a collector of butterflies and has his concubines tattooed with butterflies as well. One day while hunting, Yoshinari sees Gennosuke Akizuki's beautiful wife, Okoto. He kidnaps her, tattoos a butterfl ...

Headphone Lullaby (1983)

The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students. ...

The Second Love (1983)

Kazumi - whose sensitivity does not undermine her strength when she handles her second husband's emotional conflicts with the wisdom of an adult. Kazumi's younger and more inexperienced husband Hideo is continually suspicious of her fidelity. ...

Ninja Wars (1982)

A fortuneteller prophesizes that whoever marries the beautiful Ukio will become the ruler of the world. Naturally, this makes her very popular with those vying for power, particularly the insatiably greedy Lord Donjo. Only the ninja Jotaro can stop Donjo's ...

Samurai Reincarnation (1981)

After surviving the slaughter of many Christians 350 years ago, a samurai denounces God for ignoring the pleas of believers. He sells his soul to Satan and receives the power to resurrect the dead to join him in a murderous rampage. ...

The Beauty of the Big Clock (1979)

A story based on Edogawa Ranpo's "Ghost Tower". ...

The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village (1978)

Tarao's services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with an eerie mask of a devil. ...

Weeping Lake (1978)

Japanese horror televisivon movie from 1978. ...

Irezumi (1978)

The Faceless Man (1977)

Okada, who had escaped death in the duel, suffered the greatest humiliation in the presence of his beloved Fumiko, and disappeared. Mitani and Fumiko are united, but when Okada's body is found, Fumiko becomes embroiled in a terrible incident... The story i ...

Case of the Disjointed Murder (1977)

In the summer of 1947, various men and women gather at a mansion in the countryside at the invitation of Kazuma Utagawa. They are artists, novelists, poets, painters, playwrights, actresses, etc. Then the murders begin, one after another. The incident s ...

Variation (1976)

The man who lives in the past and the woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago, and had met again in Paris. ...

The Perennial Weed (1975)

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect. ...

Two in the Amsterdam Rain (1975)

Sakuda is a Japanese expat working in Amsterdam. When his company gets exposed for exporting fire arms to Italy that are later repurposed for war in Africa, he finds himself involved in a major complot alongside Ryo, a woman from his native village whom he ...

My Way (1974)

Based on a true story, an elderly woman resiliently spends nine months attempting to retrieve her husband's dead body, fighting government bureaucracy and indifference all along the way. ...

Nagare no Fu Part I: Disturbance, Part II: Dawn (1974)

An epic drama depicting the lineage of a military family that lived for three generations before, during, and after World War II, against the backdrop of the turbulent history of the Showa period and the magnificent nature of Hokkaido. ...

Silence (1971)

In 17th-century Japan, two Portuguese Jesuit priests seek their mentor, who is rumoured to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism. ...

Love of Saturday (1970)

Nemoto Ritsuko is the girlfriend of Kuroki Tamotsu. Both are 22 years old. Ritsuko lives with her father, Shingo, a piano tuner and city hall clerk. Meanwhile, Tamotsu is a small club's pianist in Yokohama. Ritsuko, close to the age of marriage, is worried ...