Direction: Yasuharu Hasebe

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yasuharu Hasebe. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Massacre Gun

1967 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Jô Shishido · Tatsuya Fuji · Ryoji Hayama · Takashi Kanda

Synopsis Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their...

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

Stray Cat Rock: Female Boss

1970 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Meiko Kaji · Ken Sanders · Hanako Tokachi

Synopsis Yasuharu Hasebe developed and directed this first installment in a five-film series dealing with the adventures of all-girl motorcycle gangs. Mei, leader of an all-girl biker gang, inadvertently gets involved with a yakuza group's plot to rig boxing matches because...

5.8

49 votes

5.8

49 votes

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter

1970 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rikiya Yasuoka · Tatsuya Fuji · Jiro Okazaki

Synopsis Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter, the third in a series of five Stray Cat Rock films, stars hard-as-nails Meiko Kaji (Yakuza Burial, Female Convict Scorpion) as the leader of a gang of vicious teenage schoolgirls who get their kicks with...

5.8

52 votes

5.8

52 votes

Assault! Jack the Ripper

1976 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yôko Azusa · Yutaka Hayashi · Tamaki Katsura · Midori Mori

Synopsis Two restaurant employees begin a torturous and sexual killing spree after they accidentally kill a hitch hiker and find that murder and mutilation is their mutual aphrodisiac.

5.5

72 votes

5.5

72 votes

Roughneck

1969 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tsuneo Aoki · Tatsuya Fuji · Rika Fujie · Keiko Hara

Synopsis Yasuharu Hasebe directed this fiercely kinetic tale of wannabe yakuza youths (Akira Kobayashi, Tatsuya Fuji, et al.). When not cooking up scams with his buddies, Kobayashi develops a crush on Fuji’s disgusted sister, Masako Izumi. But soon the young hoods...

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Leather John's Rebellious Tribe

1978 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Hiroshi Tachi · Yôko Natsuki · Aiko Morishita · Yuri Yamashina

Synopsis Shinji, a leather jacket man on a Harley Davidson, meets Megu, who is a queen bee with followers while stopping the fight between two female groups. Megu fell in love with Shinji, but he has his eye on cute Mayo.

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Ôedo Sôsamô (TV Series)

1970 · Series · 85 min. · Japan

Direction Mio Ezaki · Hiroyoshi Tezeni · Akinori Matsuo · Masateru Nishiyama

Cast Tetsurô Sagawa · Takeya Nakamura · Ryô Kurosawa · Eiko Ezaki

Synopsis TV Series (1970 - 1980). The adventures of a ninja group who serve as secret police agents in Edo.

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A Man's World

1971 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jô Shishido · Ryohei Uchida · Kenji Sugawara

Synopsis Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend’s death. She was killed for Gang’s boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…

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Okasu!

1976 · Movie · 71 min. · Japan

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Savage Wolf Pack

1969 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tamio Kawaji · Mieko Fujimoto · Yuri Yoshioka

Synopsis The clash between a group of motorist gangster and a professional hunter who desire for revenge.

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Champion Joe

1980 · Movie · 153 min. · Japan

Direction Yoichiro Fukuda · Yasuharu Hasebe

Synopsis While serving his sentence in a Tokyo juvenile detention center, a wandering orphaned slum-dog enters the world of professional boxing after befriending an incarcerated pugilistic prodigy.

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Black Tight Killers

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Chieko Matsubara · Akemi Kita · Mieko Nishio

Synopsis Daisuke is a combat photographer trying to save his stewardess girlfriend, Yoriko, from an alliance of American mobsters and Japanese yakuza. What he soon discovers is that everyone is after a cache of gold hidden by Yoriko's late father after...

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The Naked Seven

1972 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Mari Tanaka · Keiko Tsuzuki · Yuri Yamashina

Synopsis A gang consisting of seven women roams around the country to steal and resell everything that makes money. When the gang leader falls in love with a samurai and agrees to steal guns for him, he betrays her and soon...

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Retaliation

1968 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Jô Shishido · Hideaki Nitani · Tamio Kawaji

Synopsis Jiro, an ex-convict, comes back to the street after eight years. The gang to which he belonged is nearly disbanded; only the aging boss in his sick bed remains. Still loyal to the ex-boss, Jiro approaches the powerful Hasama family...

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Rape! 13th Hour

1977 · Movie · 73 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yûdai Ishiyama · Tamaki Katsura · Naomi Oka · Rei Okamoto

Synopsis A serial rapist takes on a young protégé to his craft as he is pursued by a homosexual gang seeking vengeance for an attack on their leader.

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Lesson

1994 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

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Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal

1970 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Noriko Kurosawa · Eiji Gô · Meiko Kaji

Synopsis Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.

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Secret Honeymoon: Rape Train

1977 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yuuko Oribe · Noriaki Abe · Tokuko Watanabe

Synopsis Two trivial criminals, who escape the pursuers to the church where they take the newly arrested bride, ride a moving train whose empty freight car provides a hiding place for them.

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