Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Directing

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Born January 5, 1946 · Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Died January 31, 2026 · aged 80

Kazuhiko Hasegawa (長谷川 和彦 Hasegawa Kazuhiko, 5 January 1946 – 31 January 2026) was a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun. He has also occasionally appeared as an actor, including a role in Banmei Takahashi's 1982 Wolf (狼 Ōkami), produced by Director's Company, and later in Seijun Suzuki's 1991 Yumeji.

Known For

The Man Who Stole the SunThe Man Who Stole the Sun · 1979
The Man Who Stole the Sun
★ 7.41979
MovieCrimeThriller
A high school science teacher is the butt of all his students' jokes, until their bus is hijacked on a school trip. But something more sinister lurks beneath the surface: he's building an atomic bomb in his apartment.
Temptation of ErosTemptation of Eros · 1972
Temptation of Eros
★ 3.81972
MovieDrama
Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse.
Bitterness of YouthBitterness of Youth · 1974
Bitterness of Youth
★ 6.81974
MovieRomanceDrama
A footballing law student tutors an undergraduate, developing into a romance that soon enough goes awry.
Profound Desires of the GodsProfound Desires of the Gods · 1968
Profound Desires of the Gods
★ 7.41968
MovieDrama
Tokyo engineer Kariya arrives on a primitive tropical island, where he interacts with the Futori clan, to drill a well to power a sugar mill.
YumejiYumeji · 1991
Yumeji
★ 6.41991
MovieDrama
Following the life of Japanese artist and poet Yumeji Takehisa through the imagining of an encounter with a beautiful widow with a dark past.
Red Paper LanternRed Paper Lantern · 1974
Red Paper Lantern
★ 7.21974
MovieDramaRomance
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
The Crazy FamilyThe Crazy Family · 1984
The Crazy Family
★ 7.11984
MovieDramaComedy
Shortly after moving to the suburbs, the Kobayashis start to come undone. Convinced a family curse is at the root of their erratic behavior, the man of the house takes it upon himself to course-correct before it takes the last of their sanity.
The Youth KillerThe Youth Killer · 1976
The Youth Killer
★ 6.51976
MovieDramaCrime
Though his parents help him run the family business, Jun still feels persecuted by their love; when they bar him from meeting with his girlfriend, tensions increase.

Filmography

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Apartment Wife: Secret RendezvousApartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous · 1972
Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous
★ 7.01972
Movie
Shuichi and Nobuko are an ordinary, young couple, a promising company employee and his pretty wife. They think nothing can mar their peaceful life but nothing is permanent in this world and Shuichi's company goes bankrupt. Shuichi feels lost. He misses the good times he had at bars and cabarets, especially Hiromi, a hostess. Nobuko offers to work while he hunts for a job and finds an opening at an advertising company. But as Nobuko makes the rounds of restaurants and cabarets, she finds she cannot get ads just by dint of hard work alone. All the shop owners and managers expect her to sleep with them for each big ad they buy. At first, Nobuko is shocked but, to eat, she must meet their demands.

Assistant Director

Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of LoveCockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love · 1991
Cockroach Trading Company's Hilarious Tale: The Five Hundred Million Yen Blues of Love
1991
Movie
Yukiko Miki, the only daughter of the Yamako-gumi, a yakuza group in Kansai, begs her father to let her start a company, and with three henchmen who also act as bodyguards, she establishes "Gokiburi Shoji" (Cockroach Trading). Their business involves committing crimes such as bank robberies to make money, and Ryotaro Anzai, who approaches her without knowing she's the daughter of a yakuza, also joins the company. Initially, they plan to rob an armored car, but a father and son duo steal 500 million yen from them. Next, they plan to rig a boat race, but by chance, Ryotaro spots the man who stole the money. Changing their plans, they devise various schemes to get 500 million yen back from the father and son duo.