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1. The Funeral (1984)
Not Rated | 124 min | Comedy, Drama
When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.
Director: Jûzô Itami | Stars: Tsutomu Yamazaki, Nobuko Miyamoto, Kin Sugai, Hideji Ôtaki
Votes: 1,854
2. Oba: The Last Samurai (2011)
128 min | Drama, War
During the end of World War 2, a group of Japanese soldiers fight on after US forces capture most of the island. They refuse to surrender and continue to resist after the Emperor surrenders.
Directors: Cellin Gluck, Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Yutaka Takenouchi, Sean McGowan, Mao Inoue, Treat Williams
Votes: 1,214
3. Sword of Desperation (2010)
114 min | Action, History
A talented but troubled Edo Period swordsman, Kanemi Sanzaemon. Three years earlier, Kanemi killed a woman, Renko, the corrupt mistress of the powerful daimyo Tabu Ukyou. Unexpectedly, ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Etsushi Toyokawa, Chizuru Ikewaki, Kôji Kikkawa, Tsumami Edamame
Votes: 852
4. Samurai Resurrection (2003)
106 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
37,000 Peasants perished in the Shimbara Revolt: among them, the leader of that uprising, Shiro Amakusa. Amakusa is resurrected from hell bent on revenging the death of his fellow comrades ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Yôsuke Kubozuka, Kumiko Asô, Tetta Sugimoto, Tomoka Kurotani
Votes: 444
5. Seishun no satsujinsha (1976)
132 min | Crime, Drama
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.
Director: Kazuhiko Hasegawa | Stars: Yutaka Mizutani, Mieko Harada, Etsuko Ichihara, Ryôhei Uchida
Votes: 368
6. Door (1988)
95 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After several strangely threatening calls from a local salesman, a homemaker becomes increasingly afraid to answer her apartment door.
Director: Banmei Takahashi | Stars: Keiko Takahashi, Daijirô Tsutsumi, Shirô Shimomoto, Takuto Yonezu
Votes: 305
7. Family of Strangers (2019)
117 min | Crime, Drama
Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That ... See full summary »
Directors: Hideyuki Hirayama, Park Gyu Taek | Stars: Tsurube Shôfukutei, Gô Ayano, Nana Komatsu, Toshiki Ayata
Votes: 276
8. Haunted School (1995)
101 min | Family, Horror
A young girl wanders into a wing of her elementary school that has been abandoned for years and is rumored to be haunted. When she doesn't come back, a group of her classmates go looking ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Hironobu Nomura, Kasumi Toyama, Shiori Yonezawa, Hajime Atsuta
Votes: 271
9. Everest: The Summit of the Gods (2016)
123 min | Adventure, Drama
A Japanese journalist decides to climb Mount Everest.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Jun'ichi Okada, Hiroshi Abe, Pierre Taki, Shunsuke Kazama
Votes: 260
10. Turn (2001)
112 min | Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Maki is a young nursery teacher and talented copper plate printing artist. One day she's hit by a truck and awakes on a deck chair in her house in the empty city. She seems to have died and... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Riho Makise, Kankurô Nakamura, Akira Emoto, Ayako Kawahara
Votes: 194
11. Robinson's Garden (1987)
119 min | Drama
A hippie-like girl tries to turn an abandoned industrial site into an urban oasis full of greenery.
Director: Masashi Yamamoto | Stars: Kumiko Ohta, Kou Machida, Tuko Ueno, Cheebo
Votes: 163
12. Jû-kai no mosukîto (1983)
108 min | Drama
Jukkai no Mosukito is the tragic story of a policeman who has never succeeded in anything in life and seems to be hopelessly bound to failure in all his undertakings. His ex-wife and ... See full summary »
Director: Yôichi Sai | Stars: Yûya Uchida, Ann Lewis, Kyôko Koizumi, Kai Atô
Votes: 159
13. Begging for Love (1998)
135 min | Drama
A woman with an abusive childhood travels back to taiwan from japan with her daughter in order to find her father's missing ashes, confronting her past along the way, discovering many secrets that were hidden from her throughout her life.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Mieko Harada, Maho Nonami, Fumiyo Kohinata, Mami Kumagai
Votes: 155
14. Shaberedomo shaberedomo (2007)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
The movie revolves around Mitsuba, a teenage boy that studies traditional art of rakugo. Rakugo is a form of comical story telling, sometimes referred to as sit-down comedy. Even though ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Taichi Kokubun, Karina, Kintarô Hara, Tomekichi Himuka
Votes: 115
15. Kaitô Ruby (1988)
96 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Toru Hayashi lives alone with his mother. Young salaryman whose life is staggeringly banal, he is what we can call a man stuck, until a pretty young woman moves into the apartment upstairs.... See full summary »
Director: Makoto Wada | Stars: Kyôko Koizumi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Kumi Mizuno, Masumi Okada
Votes: 114
16. Out (2002)
119 min | Comedy, Thriller
Four down on their luck housewives murder their husbands and find whacky ways to hide the bodies!
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Mieko Harada, Mitsuko Baishô, Shigeru Muroi, Naomi Nishida
Votes: 103
17. Haunted School 2 (1996)
103 min | Family, Fantasy, Horror
A group of youngsters get stuck in a haunted school and have to deal with an assortment of ghosts.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Hironobu Nomura, Naomi Nishida, Masakane Yonekura, Kyôko Kishida
Votes: 91
18. Haunted School 4 (1999)
99 min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
Taking advantage of their summer holiday, a boy and his little sister visit their cousin at Nozaki located at the sea-side. However, on the day they arrive, a typhoon hits the town for the ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Mai Toyoda, Matsunosuke Shofukutei, Yuki Minakawa, Mieko Harada
Votes: 82
19. Tsuyukusa (2022)
95 min | Drama, Romance
A woman who believes herself to have had an unusual stroke of luck forms a relationship with a man who failed to stop his wife from killing herself.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Satomi Kobayashi, Yutaka Matsushige
Votes: 78
20. Yajikita dôchû Teresuko (2007)
108 min | Comedy, Drama, History
There comes a time in the life of a prostitute where clients start gravitating away. It is the inevitable result of being past one's prime, aging and of course becoming used up. Okino opts ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kyôko Koizumi, Kanzaburô Nakamura, Akira Emoto, Keiko Awaji
Votes: 59
21. The Laughing Frog (2002)
96 min | Comedy
On the run, Ippei seeks shelter at his wife Ryoko's place. She agrees to hide him for a week in return for his signing of the divorce agreement. Through a peephole, Ippei witnesses the ... See full summary »
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Nene Ôtsuka, Mickey Curtis, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 48
22. Forget Me Not (2010)
109 min | Drama
The emotional story evolves in the backdrop of a small mining town from the 1960s to the 1970s.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Tokio Emoto, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Takuya Ishida, Ren Kobayashi
Votes: 37
23. Flames of Blood (1981)
147 min | Action, Crime
The story of a drunken fighter (Sugawara) and an ailing, blind singer (Baisho) amid the power struggle between the Shogunate government and the Emperor in mid-19th century Japan.
Director: Tai Katô | Stars: Bunta Sugawara, Mitsuko Baishô, Tomisaburô Wakayama, Hiroko Sakuramachi
Votes: 33
24. Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Drama
In a residential area, a man is murdered by another man, who broke in his apartment. Sergeant Kizaki, who is working near the area, hears a gunshot and runs towards the apartment. Detective... See full summary »
Stars: Kaho, Asuka Kurosawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Narushi Ikeda
Votes: 33
25. Lady Joker (2004)
121 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
Men and women caught up in "a downward spiral of corruption, discrimination, poverty and death" are the focus of this detective-thriller/social-drama inspired by the unsolved 1984 kidnapping of a Japanese candy company president.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Tetsuya Watari, Satoshi Tokushige, Kôji Kikkawa, Jun Kunimura
Votes: 29
26. Eien no 1/2 (1987)
101 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Kichitarô Negishi | Stars: Saburô Tokitô, Shinobu Ôtake, Tomoko Nakajima, Fukuko Sayo
Votes: 22
27. Beyond the Shining Sea (1986)
128 min | Drama, Romance
Director: Toshiya Fujita | Stars: Keiko Matsuzaka, Shinobu Ôtake, Tsunehiko Watase, Rentarô Mikuni
Votes: 15
28. Za Chugaku kyoshi (1992)
106 min | Drama, Comedy
The story of an unconventional teacher facing up to his unruly and apathetic class.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kyôzô Nagatsuka, Tomoko Fujita, Jun Fubuki, Kirin Kiki
Votes: 14
29. Maria's Stomach (1990)
101 min
A group of women find themselves on the island of Sipang with a serial killer and a monstrous creature they will have to confront in order to save their lives.
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Haruko Sagara, Akira Emoto, Bunjaku Han, Kimiko Yo
Votes: 13
30. Taigan no kanojo (2006 TV Movie)
103 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Yui Natsukawa, Naomi Zaizen, Mikako Tabe, Miku Ishida
Votes: 10
31. Hitoya no toge (2017)
54 min | Thriller
Ryota Takeshima is a new prison officer whose late father was also in the same profession. He sets foot in Kita Kanto Prison and sees corrupt prison officers quietly condone the bullying of... See full summary »
Stars: Masataka Kubota, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Shigeru Izumiya, Narushi Ikeda
Votes: 7
32. Nurse in Black (2015 TV Movie)
74 min | Mystery
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Shinobu Ôtake, Shinobu Terajima, Maki Sakai, Hidekazu Mashima
33. Yoi ko to asobô (1994)
43 min | Horror, Short
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Hirozumi Sato, Shingo Takano, Issei Takahashi, Masahiro Unno
34. Boku no sukina hito (2010)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Koyuki, Sôsuke Ikematsu, Takuya Ishida, Tokio Emoto
35. Marukin marubi no kintamashii maki (1985)
91 min
Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu | Stars: Hajime Tsukumo, Masahiro Kobayashi, Maiko Kawakami, Yasuko Haru
36. Gaki teikoku - Akutare sensô (1981)
90 min
Director: Kazuyuki Izutsu | Stars: Bang-ho Cho, Tomoko Igarashi, Makoto Kitano, Yoko Morimura
38. Human Scramble: Rain (1993)
70 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Saori Aoki, Toshiki Ayata, Guin Poon Chaw, Yumiko Fujita
39.
Kawa no hotori de (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2021)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Toshiki Ayata, Bengal, Yuriko Hirooka, Riko Narumi
40.
Kawa no hotori de (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2021)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Toshiki Ayata, Bengal, Yûki Ashida, Kintarô Hara
41.
Kawa no hotori de (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2021)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Toshiki Ayata, Bengal, Yuriko Hirooka, Ittoku Kishibe
42.
Kawa no hotori de (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2021)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Toshiki Ayata, Bengal
43.
Kawa no hotori de (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2021)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Toshiki Ayata, Bengal, Satoru Date, Kôya Furuhashi
44.
Kawa no hotori de (2021)
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2021)
Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Toshiki Ayata, Bengal, Yoshiki Arizono, Chieko Baishô
45.
Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #1.1
(2012)
60 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kaho, Issei Takahashi, Jun Murakami, Hirofumi Arai
46.
Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #1.2
(2012)
60 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kaho, Hirofumi Arai, Tomoko Katsuhira, Kenzô
47.
Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #1.5
(2012)
60 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kaho, Asuka Kurosawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Masaaki Akahori
48.
Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #1.4
(2012)
60 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kaho, Asuka Kurosawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Tenkyû Fukuda
49.
Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #1.6
(2012)
60 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kaho, Tamiyasu Chô, Tsumami Edamame, Anna Fujii
50.
Hitori Shizuka (2012– )
Episode:
Episode #1.3
(2012)
60 min | Drama
Director: Hideyuki Hirayama | Stars: Kaho, Asuka Kurosawa, Ittoku Kishibe, Tenkyû Fukuda