Hajime Hana Movies

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...

After an argument with his father a son leaves his home and comes back only, as an adult, many years later just to cause them problem after problem.

Tateo, young and neurotic, wishes to leave the village his mother has raised him in.

A hard-working section chief, fast approaching retirement and beset by stress from all directions, joins a jazz band and reignites his youthful...

A film produced by Toho and Watanabe Productions as part of the Crazy Movie project featuring The Crazy Cats comedy group and jazz band members. It...

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a...

Helen and her associates stage a confession play in order to remedy stuttering, but things go amiss.

Detective Katahachi meets a young and beautiful pickpocket and doesn’t arrest her because she was not in the act. Instead, he listens to the...

The Crazy Cats, a Japanese musical-comedy group, were showcased a series of comic adventures throughout the 1960s. Las Vegas Free-For-All, one of...

A young man who travels around the world with a camera in his hand finds the circus a fascinating subject. The huge tents and life-threatening...

The return of a man to Japan from Borneo creates chaos in a village.

A con man defrauds a small rural town, sparking an international manhunt.

Saotome is a white-collar worker on the brink of a burnout who one day strikes up a friendship with Gen, a boorish drifter who approaches life one...

The music teacher, who danced the twist at the graduation ceremony of the solemn female school, was fired but decided to try his luck in the...

Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful...

A directionless young man, recently released from prison, tries to make a new start in life as a boxer...

After losing all his money, Kizuka Keita, a seller on the black market, is trying to commit suicide. But he is saved by Morigen, a broker on the...

Island villagers find a young woman and young man swept ashore near their remote village in northeastern Japan. The two have tried to escape the...

A group of ne'er-do-wells live happily in the slums of what is now Tokyo and have a number of adventures: they get drunk and go whoring, revenge...