Daijirō Harada Movies

The 95-year-old director shot the film in his hometown of Ishiuchi, Hiroshima. The story is based on a teacher he had when he was a child.

A period comedy set at the end of the Sengoku Period about Sasuke Saruhi, a middle-aged ninja.

The fourth 'Front and Back' film.

One night, Genjiro Tsurumi, a former ronin comes across a man being attacked by a group of assassins. The dying man is an official secret agent...

Fictionalised account of the story of the he Chōshū Five (長州五傑 Chōshū Goketsu) who travelled to and...

A continuation of the story of the postwar years in the Japanese Inland Sea. Now a decade has passed. Two friends meet and decide to look for the...

The first 'Front and Back' film.

The battle for life begins now; who will survive? A clash that transcends the boundaries between police and the yakuza.

The fifth 'Front and Back' film.

A drama depicting the world of the female writer Midori Osaki in three parts: the dramatic creation of her masterpiece, "Wanderings in the Realm of...

1972 Japanese movie

A comedy with several erotic touches, where the protagonist Banji Suke (or Sukeban) has to disguise himself as a girl in order to be able to attend...

The second 'Front and Back' film.

On the day his mother dies, young gambler Jirocho swears in front of her grave that he'll never gamble again. But, that night, Jirocho heads to a...

A high school girl becomes convinced that her mother, who was said to have died fourteen years ago, is alive and residing in Hokkaido.

Samon Kamiyama, a yoriki of the Minami-machi magistrate infiltrates the Denzū-machi prison disguised as Mushuku Sahēji. Samon is mistaken...

When KAORU, a woman with a trouble past dies unexpectedly, her ex husband and estranged daughter must confront their complicated relationship and the...

The third 'Front and Back' film.