Movies: Tokue Hanazawa

  • 1965
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1965)

    Kwaidan

    7.71965HD

    Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue come...

    Kwaidan
  • 1974
    The Castle of Sand

    The Castle of Sand (1974)

    The Castle of Sand

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    Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard....

    The Castle of Sand
  • 1971
    Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

    Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman (1971)

    Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman

    6.71971HD

    Zatoichi is a blind massage therapist and swordsman who finds out that something troubling is taking place on the outskirts of town. After discovering who the guilty parties are -- an accomplished Chinese martial artist named Wang Kang and his youthf...

    Zatoichi Meets the One-Armed Swordsman
  • 1969
    Red Lion

    Red Lion (1969)

    Red Lion

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    Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to Sawando, his hometown, to announce the end of tyranny....

    Red Lion
  • 1953
    Hiroshima

    Hiroshima (1953)

    Hiroshima

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    The film shows the bombing of Hiroshima and the horrific aftermath following the detonation of an atomic bomb on humans for the first time in history....

    Hiroshima
  • 1947
    Snow Trail

    Snow Trail (1947)

    Snow Trail

    7.11947HD

    Three bank robbers, Eijima, Nojiri, and Takasugi, flee the police and escape into the mountains. At an inn high in the Japanese Alps, Eijima and Nojiri encounter a young woman and her father, as well as Honda, a mountaineer. The inn folk do not reali...

    Snow Trail
  • 1970
    Where Spring Comes Late

    Where Spring Comes Late (1970)

    Where Spring Comes Late

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    The story is set in 1970 during the time of the first EXPO in Japan. The film’s main figure is a miner who suddenly becomes unemployed because the mine he worked in was shut down. He decides to resettle with his whole family to Hokkaido in northern J...

    Where Spring Comes Late
  • 1977
    Mount Hakkoda

    Mount Hakkoda (1977)

    Mount Hakkoda

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    Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia....

    Mount Hakkoda
  • 1985
    Tracked

    Tracked (1985)

    Tracked

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    When a fugitive begins a romance with the woman hiding him from the law, it becomes uncertain whether he will ever escape the shadow of his heinous crimes--or the detectives hot on his trail....

    Tracked
  • 1963
    A Legend, or Was It?

    A Legend, or Was It? (1963)

    A Legend, or Was It?

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    A Tokyo family escaping the war relocates to a Hokkaido village; their daughter is set to marry the local leader's son, but her siblings disapprove....

    A Legend, or Was It?
  • 1992
    Basara: The Princess Goh

    Basara: The Princess Goh (1992)

    Basara: The Princess Goh

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    Furuta Oribe is ordered to become tea master under Toyotomi Hideyoshi after his teacher Sen no Rikyū, the former tea master, was ordered to commit suicide. Princess Goh, daughter of the lord but adopted by Hideyoshi, is outraged when Rikyū's severed ...

    Basara: The Princess Goh
  • 1961
    The Orphan Brother

    The Orphan Brother (1961)

    The Orphan Brother

    6.61961HD

    After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their mother dies, they are sold to Sansho the Bailiff, a cruel man who subjects them to hideous torments. Whil...

    The Orphan Brother
  • 1956
    I Will Buy You

    I Will Buy You (1956)

    I Will Buy You

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    A talent scout moves sharply, dead-set on signing a promising athlete to the baseball team the Toyko Flowers....

    I Will Buy You
  • 1964
    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple (1964)

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple

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    In the fourth installment, Musashi's potentially greatest opponent Kojiro jumps in and out of the story at the oddest and most coincidental moments. As his great love Otsu has succumbed to madness. Musashi then sets off to beat the functionaries of a...

    Miyamoto Musashi: The Duel at Ichijo Temple
  • 1979
    Oh, My Son!

    Oh, My Son! (1979)

    Oh, My Son!

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    A man whose son has been murdered pushes to create laws to financially protect victims' families....

    Oh, My Son!
  • 1960
    The Great Road

    The Great Road (1960)

    The Great Road

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    The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war ....

    The Great Road
  • 1958
    The Naked Sun

    The Naked Sun (1958)

    The Naked Sun

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    A young, struggling couple are making every sacrifice so they will one day in the not-too-distant-future, have enough money to get married. As they have agreed on this procedure, it comes as a shock to the young woman to find out from her husband-to-...

    The Naked Sun
  • 1951
    Still I Live On

    Still I Live On (1951)

    Still I Live On

    5.71951HD

    About the struggles of day labourers to achieve dignity and a standard of living above the starvation level. Utilising the Zenshinza theatrical troupe....

    Still I Live On
  • 1957
    The Eleventh Hour

    The Eleventh Hour (1957)

    The Eleventh Hour

    7.21957HD

    Based on a 1956 television feature on Japan’s national network, NHK, this is one of Uchida’s rarest films. A socially conscious drama with a contemporary backdrop, Dotanba focuses on the attempts to rescue a group of trapped miners. The title is a fi...

    The Eleventh Hour
  • 1963
    Seventeen Ninja

    Seventeen Ninja (1963)

    Seventeen Ninja

    7.31963HD

    As the Shogun lays dying, seventeen Iga clan ninja are sent to infiltrate the impenetrable fortress where his youngest son is preparing to storm Edo Castle and name himself Shogun by force of arms. They are to either steal the documents that will eve...

    Seventeen Ninja