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Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy

3 titles · in release order

Kaizo Hayashi wrote, produced, and directed this three part series centering around the exploits of his creation Maiku Hama, a Generation X answer to the private eye.

The Most Terrible Time in My LifeThe Most Terrible Time in My Life · 1994
The Most Terrible Time in My Life
★ 7.51994
MovieDramaAction
Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers
The Stairway to the Distant PastThe Stairway to the Distant Past · 1995
The Stairway to the Distant Past
★ 7.21995
MovieDramaCrime
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.
The TrapThe Trap · 1996
The Trap
★ 6.81996
MovieDramaThriller
When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.