Mitsuru Hirata Movies

Who will be the next prime minister? As two candidates start to compete, political game and brutal murder ensue. And the existence of secret love...

An antique shop "Jidaiya" sells time not antiques. One day a lady run into this shop with a cat.

Kohei Miyazaki (Naoto Takenaka), a former railroad worker, has become obsessed with locating the ancient country of Yamatai. His obsession sprouted...

Kinjiro Oribe, nicknamed Orikin, is a professional golfer who has not won a single tournament in his 17-year golf career. He arrives at the golf...

Police Officer Kankichi Ryotsu (Shingo Katori) is back at the Kameari Park Polic Box. Kankichi Ryotsu usually means to do well, but more often than...

A young girl befriends an infant T-rex after her palentologist father nurtures a lair of lost dinosaur eggs.

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown.

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

The year is 1947, during the war torn period of the Showa era. The story begins when a man, presumed to have been killed in battle, returns home. Who...

Flowers examines the lives of six women across three generations, from the Show period all the way through to the present day.

Two men, a detective and a gang member, infiltrate each other's organization. Soon they find their fates intertwined.

Four short films based on ghost stories written by award winning modern Japanese writers.

The "Himawari So" ("Sunflower House") is a group home for mentally underdeveloped adults. Manga artist Itpon Aijo (Naoto Takenaka) begins to work at...

Hamakichi, who used to be a detective is now a toy merchant. His former boss has a grudge against the Yakuza family, which leads to the murder of a...

Yuichi Koga is an upper-class business executive, running his own adult video company, and living a successful life with his wife and daughter....

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

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

Barbara, a dancer, is coming home to Nagoya after a long absence. She lives above a bar in an area whose inhabitants are mainly from Okinawa. Upon...

Japanese anthology follows the depressing lives of several people just trying to keep going in a nihilistic world. Movie version of Kosuke...