Hiroshi Koizumi Movies

With delicate, unobtrusive strokes, Naruse evokes both the humor and bitterness of his characters’ dilemmas, in this bleak, compelling poignant...

Dramatic story of one man trying to make a difference.

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Professor Nishiyama, after studying and interpreting the prophecies of Nostradamus, realizes that the end of the world is at hand. Unfortunately,...

A look at the unrecognized work of the talented artists and craftsmen who've maintained the tradition of Japanese special-effects. Highlighted is...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic strip. The first entry in Toho's Sazae-san series.

1962 Japanese movie

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

An Ishiro Honda film.

Once an average and seemingly ordinary Tokyo girl, she suddenly finds herself as a TV star owing to her discovery by a casting company, which noticed...

In the middle of the period of high economic growth in Japan, a family is thrown into disarray over work, money, and romance. Their father's sudden...

Sazae finally gets married, but right after that, Masuo is transferred to Osaka. A heartbroken Sazae sends her parents on a silver wedding trip, and...

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-san comic.

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

An adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip.