Hiromichi Horikawa Movies

A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six...

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to...

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

Based on the story "Tokyo Station" by Tsunehiko Sagawa.

The second film in Toho's series on the military history of the Showa era, Hiromichi Horikawa's war drama offers a look at the career of...

Driven by greed and a desire for his cousin's wife, Jiro orchestrates a complex frame-up to have his cousin arrested for murder.

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

The ruthless and ambitious Yasuhiko uses his charm to manipulate and exploit those around him to climb the corporate social ladder. His cold-blooded...

Asian Blue focuses on Koreans brought to Japan to work in forced-labor brigades during World War II

A seasoned prosecutor uncovers the perfect crime committed by a young lawyer.

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

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Sakata Sankichi, an amateur shogi player living in the slums of Osaka, is so obsessed with the board game that he spends all of his family's money to...

A greedy Japanese barmaid serves her aged escort too many noodles.

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

Melodrama by Kon Ichikawa