Hideo Hongo Movies

Period comedy with fantasy elements.

The third of four "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" films.

Comedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the...

Based on the story "Uwaki no tabi" ("Affair Journey") by Keita Genji.

The second "The Surprising Legend of Jirocho" feature.

A former company man turned drifter is pulled back to lead a struggling toy company, enforcing bold reforms that shake up its corporate culture. Just...

The fourth an final film in the "Jirocho igaiden" series.

Based on the famous novel by Yamagami Itaro, this is the story of a group of ronin living in abject poverty in the latter days of the Edo period....

Domestic comedy involving a strong wife and a "henpecked" husband taking place in a family-run judo school.

Yutaro Kida, a worker at the Sasebo Naval Arsenal, volunteers for the navy but finds himself a cook's mate in the galley of a gunboat. But his dream...