Direction: Susumu Hani

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Sachiko Hidari · Kikuji Yamashita · Eiji Okada · Akio Hasegawa

Plot A woman resident becomes discontent with the empty life she and her husband are leading. They encounter a street beggar who lives in poverty with his dog and a blind...

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Haruo Asanu · Kazuko Fukuda · Kuniko Ishii · Ichirô Kimura

Plot A young couple check into a hotel room to make love for the very first time. The boy Shun is timid and gauche, hiding his face and retreating to the...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara · Susumu Hani · Yoshiro Kawazu · Kyushiro Kusakabe

Plot Eight filmmakers collaborate with Teshigahara to bring a newsreel-style snapshot of Tokyo in 1957-58, when it had eight and a half million people and was the largest city in the...

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Kiyoshi Atsumi · Hamisi Salehe · Tsutomu Shimomoto · Bibi Agnes

Plot Traveling to Africa in a cultural exchange program, a young Japanese engineer discovers a world completely unlike the one he knows. His interaction with the Africans he meets reveals to...

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Yuri Suemasa · Kenzo Kawarazaki · Kimiko Nukamura · Rumiko Tanuma

Plot Aido (Yuri Suemasa) is a beautiful woman cursed with an insatiable appetite for sex. After an affair with a young student, she engages in several other affairs in which she...

Direction Susumu Hani

Plot This rare documentary is one of the very last efforts from preeminent documentarist/activist Susumu Hani best known for his feature films. This one is a short documentary about the 1945...

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Ineko Arima · Koshiro Harada · Joji Ai · Takahiro Tamura

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Hiroyuki Nagato · Haruko Sugimura

Direction Susumu Hani

Plot A short documentary about the behaviour of Japanese primary school students.

Direction Susumu Hani

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Masaru Doi · Takehiko Maeda · Naomi Sagara

Plot A rare commercial musical film directed by Hani Susumu that combines live action with animation; the film was not very successful at the box office, leaving Hani to go back...

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Yukio Yamada · Hirokazu Yoshitake · Koichiro Yamazaki · Yasuo Kurokawa

Plot Susumu Hani's first feature was this gritty pseudo docudrama of juvenile delinquency based upon a collection of papers, 'Wings That Couldn't Fly', written by the inmates of a boy's prison....

Direction Giuliano Tomei · Susumu Hani

Direction Susumu Hani

Cast Aya Kunikida · Shau Sumei · Takuji Hatano

Plot Reiko returns from vacation to inform Shitamura of the suicide of their friend Kusako. Together they watch 8mm holiday films that reveal the melancholic passing of friendships that once seemed...