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Masahiro Hashimoto
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Known For
Moving · 1993Moving
★ 7.51993
MovieDrama
Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.
Tattoo · 1984Tattoo
★ 4.31984
MovieDrama
A gang of men target a manager’s daughter but kidnap the wrong woman. Her life becomes an even greater hell when they tattoo her and find they can’t even sell her off to the yakuza.
The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark · 1993The City That Never Sleeps: Shinjuku Shark
★ 9.01993
MovieThrillerCrime
A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
The Tropical People · 1994The Tropical People
★ 9.01994
Movie
Straight-laced, honest Japanese travel agent Misuzu gets a job as a tour guide so that she can the world. On her first assignment in Bangkok, Thailand she does her best for her ungrateful charges, but gets fired when the hotel (through no fault of her own) misplaces all their passports. She also finds herself the victim of a scam by two Japanese con-artists (innocent-looking Tondabayashi and half-Thai Thuy) living in Bangkok. When the hotel finds the passports, she decides to buck the system and sell them on the black market. She teams up with the two con-artists to scam, rip off and rob all the Japanese tourists in Bangkok. They keep trying to pull off bigger and bigger jobs, and end up in trouble with two dumb, sightseeing yakuza, among others. Also, a love triangle forms as Tondabayashi falls for Misuzu, and Misuzu falls for the older Thuy.
Top Stripper · 1982Top Stripper
★ 5.21982
MovieDrama
A naive delivery boy becomes infatuated with a girl who works at a local strip joint. Despite his daily attendance and attempts to get her attention she remains indifferent until one day she invites him onstage.
Strain 2 · 2001Strain 2
2001
Movie
Five-dollar hitman Mayo and KUSAKA Group chairman Shunichiro Kusaka are half-brothers living in completely different worlds. When the underworld Matsuri Clan plots to seize control of the KUSAKA Group, the long-feuding brothers find themselves facing a common enemy.
Poruno Joyû Shigan · 1983Poruno Joyû Shigan
1983
MovieComedyDrama
22-year-old Hyodo Kiriko has never had non-monetary sex except for her first time, and now works as an escort girl, with dates arranged by phone. One day, a customer invites her to appear in a real behind-the-scenes video, after she starts appearing in an underground video. Then, by chance, she auditions for a movie and makes her debut as a new actress, but the underground video is also leaked, and she becomes a scandalous actress...
Strain · 2001Strain
2001
Movie
Shingo Kusaka, the illegitimate brother of KUSAKA Group chairman Shunichiro Kusaka, is framed and sentenced to death by his own bloodline. Surviving the brink of death, Shingo erases his past and is reborn as a professional assassin—only to find himself hunted by an unknown enemy.

