Screenplay: Shinya Hidaka

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Shinya Hidaka. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


The Makioka Sisters

1983 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Keiko Kishi · Yoshiko Sakuma · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Yûko Kotegawa

Plot This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle...

6.6

41 votes

6.6

41 votes

The Inugami Family

1976 · Movie · 146 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yôko Shimada · Teruhiko Aoi · Mieko Takamine

Plot A strange will left by a wealthy man reveals a peculiarly twisted set of relationships and triggers four deaths and several other murder attempts.

6.3

36 votes

6.3

36 votes

Princess from the Moon

1987 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Toshirô Mifune · Ayako Wakao · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Koji Ishizaka

Plot Based on a centuries-old traditional Japanese fairy tale, a country couple finds a baby girl in some bamboo and raises her as their own daughter. Not the same as the...

5.2

44 votes

5.2

44 votes

Tsuru

1988 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Hideki Noda · Takuzo Kawatani · Kirin Kiki

Plot Based on the folk tales "Repayment from a crane". One snowy night a beautiful woman named Tsuru (Crane) visits poor peasant Taiju sand says she will become his wife...

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Lonely Heart

1981 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Yutaka Mizutani · Toshiyuki Nagashima · Rie Nakahara · Etsuko Ichihara

Plot The plot of "Lonely Heart" concerns a gunman who murders all the occupants of a bookstore. But this quickly becomes the story of the policemen who investigate the crime. One...

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Ancient City

1980 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Momoe Yamaguchi · Tomokazu Miura · Keiko Kishi · Jun Izumi

Plot Koto is a 1980 film directed by Kon Ichikawa starring Momoe Yamaguchi and Tomokazu Miura in an adaptation of Yasunari Kawabata's story The Old Capital.

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The House of Hanging

1979 · Movie · 138 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Yoshiko Sakuma · Junko Sakurada · Takako Irie

Plot One of Kon Ichikaw's adaptations of the Kindaichi Kousuke detective stories written by Yokomizo Seishi. This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to...

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Noh Mask Murders

1991 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Takaaki Enoki · Koji Ishizaka · Keiko Kishi · Shirô Itô

Plot The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson.

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Actress

1987 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuko Mori · Bunta Sugawara · Koji Ishizaka

Plot The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as Lillian Gish's was in the U.S. -- it spanned the early...

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Ohan

1984 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Koji Ishizaka · Reiko Ohara · Michi Kagawa

Plot Does tomorrow with that woman (human) ...... Ichikawa Kunlun × Yoshinaga Sayuri draws, the world of eroticism! The classic masterpieces of Showa literature held in love and passion and Uno's...

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Queen Bee

1978 · Movie · 140 min. · Japan

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Koji Ishizaka · Mieko Takamine · Keiko Kishi · Yôko Tsukasa

Plot In order to solve the mystery of a murder of an old governess which takes place at a wealthy Daidoji family’s country estate, family secrets and lies dating back several...

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