Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Director

January 5, 1946 (80 years)

† January 31, 2026

Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan

Biography

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.

Filmography

7.4

The Man Who Stole the Sun

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.

7.4

Profound Desires of the Gods

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.

10.0

Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction

A wife who suspects her husband of infidelity hires an investigator. But it turns out he has his own kinky secrets.

6.5

The Youth Killer

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.

6.0

Wet Sand in August

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.

4.0

Sweet Scent of Eros

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share everything together.

5.7

Woman on the Night Train

Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his attraction to both sisters.

6.7

Light of Africa

Two semi-slackers with an ultra-intimate friendship work, slack and drink in a freezing Hokkaido town.

7.3

Red Paper Lantern

A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.

5.9

Afternoon Affair: Rear Window

For a girl who works in a 3rd rate bar, Ayuko is full of vanity. Nomura, her patron, is besotted by her and it is their habit that they cannot reach a climax unless they peek at a couple, across the way, making love. Intent on climbing up in the world, Ayuko uses all her wiles to get her patron, who is putty in her hands, to move her from her grubby apartment house to a dreamboat of a place. She then tries to find a place to work more befitting her new home but all the elite night clubs will have nothing to do with her and with time heavy on her hands, the devil finds mischief for idle hands to do.

N/A

Legend of the Sex Thief in Edo

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7.0

Apartment Wife: Secret Rendezvous

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.

3.8

Temptation of Eros

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.

10.0

The Superhuman Stud

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8.3

Affair at Twilight

Reiko is an adulterous housewife whose lover is a foul-tempered yakuza gangster. After one of her husband's friends spies the amorous duo at a no-tell motel, the stage is set for murder.

6.5

Did the Red Bird Escape?

A young outlaw can’t escape his rebellious past despite connections to a well-to-do family.

8.0

Teenagers' Sex Journal '75

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8.5

Sigh of Roses

Depicting female karma and sexual sorrow in the midst of revenge and immorality, a woman betrayed by her lover plans to take revenge on him by seducing his only son and dragging him into a sensual trap, but before long she too is writhing in delight and falling in love with him.

10.0

The Climax

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3.3

Gypsy Rose: A Docu-Drama

The film depicts the private life wrapped in the mysterious veil of the dancer Gypsy Rose, who was known as the Monroe of Japan and enthused a wide range of fans.