Mitsuo Hamada Movies

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8.

15-year-old Aya Kito was an ordinary girl, the daughter of a family who works at a tofu shop, and a soon-to-be high schooler. However, odd things...

Set in a village in the heart of a mountain in Japan. One day, a TV crew from Tokyo, looking to shoot some footage for a show about local cuisine...

A story about the friendship of the sons of two political rivals.

1965 Nikkatsu movie.

A young girl knows that she is going to die and in this she is supported by the devotion of the boy who loves her. They originally met at the...

A father gives his four daughters his substantial retirement allowance on the stipulation that they leave him alone, as he wants some freedom. Each...

A touching story of a girl who sails away from her love to keep her family together.

When a broadcasting company takes away its financial support from a symphony orchestra, some of the members refuse to admit defeat. The first...

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The...

Across the Inagawa River that runs through the center of the village, the children of the two villages scrambled for a swimming pool, and each time a...

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

Wakae is a 15 year old girl who lived under the same roof with her alcoholic father and stepmom. Her mother had died years ago. She spends her nights...

On a small island, inhabited by only fourteen hundred people, a young fisherman's son, Shinji falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest...

Hikaru, who helps out at her uncle's detective agency, is tasked with inve stigating married women's infidelity and behavior. One day, the agency...

During his idle journey on the Izu Peninsula, a university student, Kawasaki, encounters a group of traveling entertainers – including Kaoru...

Set in Kawaguchi in the early 60s, this simple story chronicles the lives of foundry families and one girl's dreams of higher education.

Story of Japanese women during the great Edo period.

This film depicts the pure love between a girl raised by a strict father and a young man working in a small factory to support his family. The...

Tajima Yumi, in grade school, is overjoyed when her father says they are moving to an apartment in a big city. But the beautiful home she had...