Hayashiya Shōzō IX

Acting

Hayashiya Shōzō IX

Born 1962-12-01 · Taito, Tokyo, Japan

Acting credits

Pom Poko poster
7.2

The Raccoons of the Tama Hills are being forced from their homes by the rapid development of houses and shopping malls. As it becomes harder to find food and shelter, they decide to band together and fight back. The Raccoons practice and perfect the ancient art of transformation until they are even able to appear as humans in hilarious circumstances.

Pom Poko

1994

Guinea Pig Part 4: Devil Doctor Woman poster
4.4

A doctor conducts experiments on patients which end up in anguish!

Guinea Pig Part 4: Devil Doctor Woman

1986

Stormy Night poster
7.1

After hiding together in an abandoned barn one stormy night, wolf Gabu and goat Mei pledge to be secret friends, despite being natural enemies. They must overcome hardship and persecution in hopes of finding another forest where they can be together in peace.

Stormy Night

2005

Haunted School 3 poster
6.8

Third installment of the "Gakko No Kaidan" series follows the trek of several elementary school students as they wander into an alternate world that exists on the opposite side of a school mirror. Nishida Naomi (the hapless teacher in "Gakko No Kaidan 2") returns as the teacher who accompanies the children on their journey into the surreal universe.

Haunted School 3

1997

The Little House poster
6.8

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which the old lady has recorded her memories. This is how he learns the truth about her youth working as a housemaid and nanny for the Hirai family in a little house in Tokyo with a red gabled roof.

The Little House

2014

Touch 4: Miss Lonely Yesterday poster
4.8

This fourth movie takes place a couple of years after the series. Minami and Tatsuya are both in college now. Different colleges, I might add. Tatsuya has quit playing baseball. Nitta is still pursuing Minami. And Tatsuya has a mysterious girl named Kaori at his college that seems to like him. So, how will all this affect the relationship between Minami and Tatsuya?

Touch 4: Miss Lonely Yesterday

1998

Stranger poster
6.7

After serving time for bank fraud, Kiriko now lives a quiet life as a taxi driver working night shifts... but her peace is shattered by a relentless stalker in a Land Cruiser.

Stranger

1991

Tokyo Family poster
7.3

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Tokyo Family

2013

What a Wonderful Family! poster
7.3

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that she wants a divorce. The wife's divorce announcement sends the entire family into chaos.

What a Wonderful Family!

2016

What a Wonderful Family! 2 poster
7.0

Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.

What a Wonderful Family! 2

2017

What a Wonderful Family! 3 poster
7.6

At the Hirata home, three generations of their family live together. A crisis ensues when one afternoon, housewife Fumie falls asleep and wakes up to find a thief has stolen her secret money she kept hidden in the refrigerator.

What a Wonderful Family! 3

2018

KochiKame: The Movie poster
7.0

Officer Ryotsu is ordered to team up with FBI agent Lisa Hoshino to find a terrorist who is currently in Tokyo. For an unknown reason, only buildings from the Shinatora corporation seem to be targeted by the mysterious Benten.

KochiKame: The Movie

1999

Touch 5: Cross Road poster
4.9

Trying to find his own game of baseball, and not that of his brothers, Tatsuya moves to America and pitches for a poor, struggling minor league baseball team called the Emeralds. Meanwhile, Minami is still in Japan, trying to find her own path after quitting gymnastics. Inspired by a photograph of her final performance, she becomes the photographers assistant.

Touch 5: Cross Road

2001

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness poster
8.2

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness

1985

The Life of Budori Gusuko poster
6.5

The fairy tale follows a young man named Gusukō in the Tōhoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After an onslaught of droughts and natural disasters, Gusukō is forced to leave his home and search for a better life elsewhere. Gusukō joins a group of scientists at the Ihatov Volcano Department, which deals with the same natural disasters that drove Gusukō from his home.

The Life of Budori Gusuko

2012

Touch 3: Don't Pass Me By poster
5.8

Due to sickness, the coach position of the Meisei High School baseball team is handed to Eijiro Kashiwaba. He is a ruthless man who forces the team to enter a Spartan training procedure. Tatsuya and Minami slowly discover stories about his past and wonder what his true intentions are.

Touch 3: Don't Pass Me By

1987

Touch: The Ace Without a Number poster
5.5

Tatsuya Uesugi is the twin brother of Kazuya, pitcher of the Meisei High School baseball team. Irresolute about his feelings towards baseball, his next door neighbor, and his brother; Tatsuya ends up joining his school's boxing club. From the sidelines, he quietly watches the ascension of Kazuya.

Touch: The Ace Without a Number

1986

The Lone Ume Tree poster
7.1

An old house stands amongst newly built buildings, as if it has been left behind. Tamako, a popular fortune teller, has been living there alone with her son, Tadao, for years. Because he has intellectual disability and autism, their neighbors often complain about his unpredictable behaviors. One day, Tamako is informed that a room is available in a group home owned by a company that runs the community workshop Tadao works at. Residents there all have intellectual disability but are living together to be independent from their families. Tamako decides to let Tadao move into the group home, but the sudden change of environment confuses him.

The Lone Ume Tree

2021

About the Evil Woman poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

About the Evil Woman

2023

Monster Commando H poster
4.0

A short tokusatsu movie where real life pro wrestler Hikari Fukuoka plays a bounty hunter that has to fight a monster. It's part of a series of sci-fi monster hunter movies starring female pro wrestlers. The other two are Monster Commando M and Monster Commando Y.

Monster Commando H

1995

Touch 2: The Farewell Gift poster
4.4

Tatsuya and Minami meet Akio Nitta, an ace batter who thought of Kazuya as his rival. Nitta sees great potential in Tatsuya and expects to face him on the road to the national high school baseball tournament.

Touch 2: The Farewell Gift

1986

Tomorrow Will Be Better! Half a Sweet Potato poster
NR

The story is about a 5-year-old girl who lived in just after World War II when people were struggle for survival.

Tomorrow Will Be Better! Half a Sweet Potato

2005

Organ poster
7.0

Set towards the end of World War II, Kaede Itakura, who leads kindergartners, and Mitsue Nonomiya, who enjoys music, persuades the parents at the school to take their children out of Tokyo. They seek shelter at an abandoned temple in Saitama while Tokyo is bombed.

Organ

2019

I'm Dandy poster
NR

A middle-aged salaryman tries to revitalize his career.

I'm Dandy

1989