Seiji Hisamatsu

Directing

Seiji Hisamatsu

Born — Died

1912-02-20 — 1990-12-28

Place of birth

Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

40 titles

Seiji Hisamatsu (久松 静児, Hisamatsu Seiji) (20 February 1912 – 28 December 1990) was a Japanese film director. He directed 101 films between 1934 and 1965.

Known for

Behind the camera

Scops-Owl Sermon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Scops-Owl Sermon

1958

Hadaka no Machi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hadaka no Machi

1957

Kyūjō hiroba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kyūjō hiroba

1951

The Bell of Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bell of Love

1959

The Bell of Love poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Bell of Love

1959

Ofukuro poster
7.0

Shizuka, Eiichiro, and Mineko, their father and son, live modestly in a certain suburb, leading a dreary but happy life. Eiichiro is troubled by Shizuka's desire to live together in familiar Tokyo. Mineko is the exact opposite of Eiichiro. A literary masterpiece depicting the fateful sorrow and humor of a mother and child

Ofukuro

1955

Her Secret poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Her Secret

1952

Ikinokotta benten-sama poster
NR

As the show begins, the stage starts to rotate, and popular stars are murdered one after another—is it a random killing spree or a premeditated crime? A unique thriller that will have you laughing and shivering at the same time.

Ikinokotta benten-sama

1952

No artwork available
NR

Michiko is a spirited young woman who was invited by the delinquent Kuniko to a shady cabaret, where she was introduced to a pseudo-gentleman named Nanbu. However, during a police raid, Michiko was the only unlucky one to be taken into custody. The next morning, her mother Chiyo was summoned to pick her up and was reunited there with her biological son, Prosecutor Hagiwara.

Haha tōdai

1949

The Sea of Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sea of Beauty

1950

Five Sisters poster
8.0

The story of five sisters.

Five Sisters

1954

The Angry Sea poster
7.0

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

The Angry Sea

1960

The Angry Sea poster
7.0

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

The Angry Sea

1960

No artwork available
NR

While a music festival was in an uproar over the theft of a prized instrument, a massive music event organized by a gang of orphaned punks was held with great fanfare in the basement of a burned-out building.

Nusumarekaketa ongakusai

1946

Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru poster
NR

A romance between a female student and a young professor, where friendship, temptation, and jealousy intertwine.

Yōsei wa hana no nioi gasuru

1953

Sanmenkyō no kyōfu poster
NR

Romantic thriller film.

Sanmenkyō no kyōfu

1948

Sanmenkyō no kyōfu poster
NR

Romantic thriller film.

Sanmenkyō no kyōfu

1948

No artwork available
NR

A brutal murder in the dead of night. While the man who left bloody fingerprints and footprints screams he is innocent, the intelligent criminal, driven by greed and lust, smirks in the shadows.

Designated Criminal

1950

Okore Sanpei poster
NR

Sanpei, an innocent sailor with incredible strength, arrives in the big city teeming with social ills carrying a mysterious bag.

Okore Sanpei

1953

Policeman's Diary, Part 2 poster
7.5

From runaway brides to a typhoon, the continued adventures of Ushikata police station.

Policeman's Diary, Part 2

1955

Crazy Operation: First Move poster
10.0

After being fired from his company, Hitoshi Ueda opens a arbitration company. Experts from various fields gather around him and with their natural vitality, they solve one dispute after another. But as it turns out, their next dispute will be at a global scale.

Crazy Operation: First Move

1963

Omokage Sanshiro poster
NR

A judo movie.

Omokage Sanshiro

1949

No artwork available
NR

A film adaptation of a novel that caused a stir among women for its incisive examination of romantic relationships between men and women.

Doro ni mamirete

1951

No artwork available
NR

A Daiei erotic film depicting the five passionate love affairs of a voluptuous married woman, driven by her beauty.

Doku bara

1949

An Urban Affair poster
7.0

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.

An Urban Affair

1961

Women in Prison poster
4.0

The woman prison has a cast all with a story of their own and with no dull or routine day. There is an employee who is divorced after her husband had an affair. She loves the jailed criminals and almost sees them as family. One day at a workshop someone faints while working hard to make money because she has a poor boyfriend. Another inmate is knocked up Another is a mother and has her child with her.

Women in Prison

1956

A Monk in the Big City of Edo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Monk in the Big City of Edo

1965

Island of Fury poster
7.0

Five boys escape from their life of bondage on an island 10 miles off Hiroshima, and are picked up in the Inland Sea, drifting in an open boat.

Island of Fury

1958

Camellia Gate poster
NR

Chikako, who was living in a room at a temple affiliated with Yasaka Shrine in Kyoto while attending a women’s college, was deeply shocked when her boyfriend, Hashida, coldly rejected her after she told him she was pregnant.

Camellia Gate

1964

Snow in the South Seas poster
9.0

Japanese soldiers stranded in Manokwari, New Guinea, improvise a theater play to keep their spirits up and endure the extremely difficult conditions.

Snow in the South Seas

1961

Tsukiyo no kasa poster
NR

Housewives from four neighboring households casually gather at an old well at Kaneko's house in a residential area on the outskirts of Tokyo. If two people come together, they will talk about selling kimonos, if three people come together, they will discuss food shopping, and when four people come together, there will be laughter. Focusing on four housewives who gather at the edge of the well, it depicts the daily life of each household.

Tsukiyo no kasa

1955

The Preacher of Love poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

The Preacher of Love

1961

Policeman's Diary poster
7.0

Lending money, job hunting for civilians and babysitting. All these things are usually not listed on a policeman's job description. But for the officers of this local police station, it‘s part of their daily routine. One day, patrolman Yoshii (Hisaya Morishige) finds an abandoned baby and a six year old girl standing in front of the station. When he's declined by the welfare office, orphanage and local health clinic to take them in, he decides to take care of them himself.

Policeman's Diary

1955

Ujō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ujō

1957

Chōchō shissō jiken poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chōchō shissō jiken

1947

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox poster
8.0

Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...

A Comedy in Front of the Station: Lunchbox

1961

Record of Loving Your Wife poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Record of Loving Your Wife

1959

No artwork available
NR

A film depicting the duties of a detective and the anguish of human compassion.

Female Prisoner #36

1947

The Daughters of the Saotome Family poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

The Daughters of the Saotome Family

1962

A Naughty Angel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Naughty Angel

1963