Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Directing

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Born — Died

1946-01-05 — 2026-01-31

Place of birth

Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

12 titles

Kazuhiko Hasegawa (長谷川 和彦 Hasegawa Kazuhiko, 5 January 1946 – 31 January 2026) was a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun. He has also occasionally appeared as an actor, including a role in Banmei Takahashi's 1982 Wolf (狼 Ōkami), produced by Director's Company, and later in Seijun Suzuki's 1991 Yumeji.

Known for

Profound Desires of the Gods poster
7.4

Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.

Profound Desires of the Gods

1968

The Man Who Stole the Sun poster
7.4

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

Yumeji poster
6.4

Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.

Yumeji

1991

The Youth Killer poster
6.5

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.

The Youth Killer

1976

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland poster
4.4

A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland

1973

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love poster
NR

Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love

1991

Film credits

1990s · 2 titles

Behind the camera

The Man Who Stole the Sun poster
7.4

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

The Man Who Stole the Sun poster
7.4

A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.

The Man Who Stole the Sun

1979

The Youth Killer poster
6.5

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.

The Youth Killer

1976

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland poster
4.4

A group of corrupt police detectives go on a manhunt for an ex-collogue who they believe could blow their whole rotten operation wide open.

Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland

1973

Bitterness of Youth poster
6.8

A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.

Bitterness of Youth

1974

Evening Primrose poster
7.3

The Taisho era was a time of turbulence in Japan. From new marks of modernity to full-blown riots, a sense of revolution filled the air. The Dam Dam Group is a small anarchist organization lead by Daijiro, a silver tongued "Benshi", a performer who provides narratives for silent films, playing multiple roles. In other words, he was a master at the art of deception, a handy talent when it came to 'doing jobs' for his group. His revolutionary ideals attracted many to his squadron, but among them was a young girl who was oblivious to his group's activities. Her name was Shino.

Evening Primrose

1974

Love Bandit Rat Man poster
5.2

Parody tale of notorious Edo-period Robin Hood named Nezumi Kozo (Rat Man), a thief who robs from the rich and showers the money on the poor. In this entry, he's also a drunkard who sometimes forgets why he's broken into the house in the first place. This is especially true if there's a pretty girl to be seduced.

Love Bandit Rat Man

1972