Hideo Hongo Movies

Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.

When a group of men from the Hanya clan search his town for a missing geisha, a brave ronin decides to help her and a drunken calligrapher. In doing...

Keiko Togawa, a chorus girl at the Toyo Theater, is told by director Miyauchi that she has been chosen to play the lead role in the next production.

A young man whose father is on death row discovers a terrifying underworld trap that was set up thirteen years ago. At seventeen years old, he risks...

A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just...

The first film produced by Daiei.

Adventures of famous yakuza boss Jirocho and his disciples who settle in Kofu.

Jidaigeki by Tai Kato

Drama about the friendship between a lonely laborer (Atsumi) and a young woman (Hoshi) unable to enter college.

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young...

A family is brutally murdered in their own home and the official government's sake dealer is framed as a rebel by a corrupt member of the Shogun's...

Urban love comedy in which Koji Tsuruta, who works for the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Parks and Greenery Department, plays love shepherd to a...

Rival bands of pirates try to get hold of a priceless treasure.

Early film directed by Eiichi Kudô.

The film is set in Kyoto at the end of the Tokugawa period, when there is a fierce clash between the supporters of the Emperor, who are fighting for...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.