Kazuo Hasegawa Movies

In one of Japan's most frequently-told ghost stories, a murdered wife returns in an act of vengeance.

The film was produced during Second Sino-Japanese War, before the Pearl Harbor Attack in 1941. The film mainly concerns the training of...

In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted...

First film adaptation of the kabuki play Benten Kozo, about a thief who steals from the rich and gives to the poor...

A film about the Ghost of Okiku that's based on the kabuki play Bancho Sarayashiki.

Lord for a Night is a 1946 Japanese film directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa.

Jidai-geki by Ryo Hagiwara

Film directed by Kenji Misumi.

Japan, 1643, as the Kato clan of Aizu falls from power two brave samurai will settle a dispute in the time-honored tradition of their clan, by...

1948 Japanese movie

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

The Siege of Osaka

In the early Edo period, among the pirate ships that roamed the seas near Ryukyu and Korea, there was a ship called the Sueyoshi, led by a man known...

The vast majority of the commercial films made by Kinugasa in the 1920s have, like almost all Japanese films of the period, been lost. Even a...