Ken Hatano

Follows a bunch of school renegades and their downfall into criminality in a docu-drama style, completely refreshing for its time.

1962 Japanese movie

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.

Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an...

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

1962 Japanese movie

Harsh film about a car dealer who gets into financial trouble.

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Final part of epic drama about war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family through the Sino-Japanese War through...

A 1961 crime film.

Shimamura is a young man whose family went broke and lost their house. One day, as he returns to his former house to get a camellia blooming from the...

In the bustle of the city, on the corners of neon streets, the eyes of a wild beast are fixed on a young girl! A gloomy portrait of youth, in which...

A touching love story about a heroine who loses her parents in the war and tries to keep her pure love alive despite the many difficulties she faces.

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Popular Japanese Group Sounds band, The Spiders, star in their second movie, a "HELP!" inspired rock n roll spy movie!

The story deals with a juvenile delinquent gang surviving through petty thievery. However, everything gets screwed up when they accidentally steal...

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

A former boxer gets involved with a club hostess trying to escape the clutches of her gangster employer.

Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

1990 Original Video