Acting

Kan Hayashi

Acting credits

Floating Clouds poster
7.7

A married Japanese forester during WWII is sent to Indochina to manage forests. He meets a young Japanese typist and promises to leave his wife. He doesn't and after the war, she turns up and the affair resumes.

Floating Clouds

1955

Koga Manshion poster
NR

Kazuo Hasegawa's debut at Daiei.

Koga Manshion

1949

The H-Man poster
5.8

When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works.

The H-Man

1958

The Naked General poster
7.0

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

The Naked General

1958

Big Shots Die at Dawn poster
6.4

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and gets involved with two opposing yakuza gangs.

Big Shots Die at Dawn

1961

Sudden Rain poster
6.7

Fumiko and Ryōtarō Namiki's marriage has gone stale, with both constantly arguing over what to do on a day off, or about her cutting out recipes from the newspaper before he finishes reading it. Their animosities are witnessed by Fumiko's niece Ayako, who visits to complain about her own husband's inattentiveness, and their new neighbours, the Imasatos.

Sudden Rain

1956

Oh, Bomb! poster
7.8

During the mayoral election, two ex-prisoners decide to replace the lucky pen of an annoying candidate with a mini-bomb.

Oh, Bomb!

1964

No artwork available
NR

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Woman in the Stream

1921

No artwork available
NR

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Scent of the White Lily

1921

A Woman's Life poster
7.1

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A Woman's Life

1963

The Blue Beast poster
8.0

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. His cold-blooded ascent eventually leads to moral decay as his past actions begin to catch up with him.

The Blue Beast

1960

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life poster
10.0

Jirocho the gambler hits the road.

Jirocho Begins His Roving Life

1953

No artwork available
1.0

Directed by Eizo Tanaka.

Before the Morning Sun Shines

1921

日本敗れず poster
7.0

In May 1945, Japan's defeat was imminent after the attacks on Saipan, Iwo Jima, and the Philippines, and Tokyo was reduced to a sea of ​​fire by another massive air raid. However, within the Ministry of the Army, there were still officers who were enthusiastic about a decisive battle on the mainland. Eventually, the Okinawa garrison was annihilated, and the US military was approaching the mainland, but on July 27th, the Potsdam Conference between the US, Britain, and the Soviet Union broadcast the Triple Joint Declaration, which set out the final terms of surrender for Japan.

日本敗れず

1954

Yasugorō shusse poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yasugorō shusse

1953

Operation Sewer Rats poster
7.0

Towards the end of World War II, five men are tasked with freeing the son of a general from Chinese captivity.

Operation Sewer Rats

1962

Blueprint of Murder poster
6.4

Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sato), now a reporter... They stumble across murder, espionage and cover-ups. High-class night club, femme fatale, and a "Blueprint of Murder" all adds up to a bigger plot then first expected.

Blueprint of Murder

1961

Yasubei Nakayama poster
NR

Jidai-geki about the life of Yasubei Nakayama, a famous ronin who did participate in the revenge against Lord Kira Yoshinaka as detailed in Japan's famous epic Chushingura

Yasubei Nakayama

1951

The Mysterious Edogawa Ranzan poster
NR

A once-dead man is resurrected by a mysterious old man's spiritual magic to take revenge on those who killed him. An unusual and bizarre historical drama with a vaguely Western atmosphere. Starring the sword-fighting star Kozaburo Ramon, directed by Kenji Shimomura.

The Mysterious Edogawa Ranzan

1937

No artwork available
NR

Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.

The Fencing Collegian

1956