Kenji Hagiwara

Birth : 1929-02-16, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

Movies

The Soup of Heaven
Director of Photography
Follows the life of an Office Lady who gets through her tedious work days by dreaming of a legendary soup and soup chef she's heard of. She decides to go in search of it.
The Rocking Horsemen
Director of Photography
It is 1965. High-school student Takeyoshi Fujiwara hears "Pipeline" by the Ventures, and is mesmerized by their unique sound. With three friends, he forms a band called "The Rocking Horsemen." A warm and comic glimpse into high-school and small-town life in Japan in the 60's.
The Beasts' Carnival
Camera Operator
A hit man working for the Yakuza double crosses his employers and flees with a cache of diamonds from the latest heist. Injured and hiding in the mountain regions of Spain, with Japanese assassins in hot pursuit, he takes refuge in the home of a local doctor and his two daughters who nurse him back to health and hide him from his pursuers, taking drastic and murderous measures to protect him... for they have plans of their own in store for their current guest.
Joshidaisei no kokuhaku: Akai yûwakusha
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Temptation of Angel
Cinematography
A story of the everyday life of a couple living together, ordinary but full of warmth and love. Starring Miura and Yamaguchi's first movie since making public of their romance--their real-life story on the screen.
White Love
Cinematography
Kobasashi was learning Spanish so that she could go to Spain to look for her father who had left the family. She fell in love with her language teacher Ken. Finally she found her father in Madrid and she also met Ken's ex-girl friend Taeko there. Ken came to Madrid and learned of their meeting. He wanted her to help to look for Taeko. Ken was caught in between the past and the present.
Dances of Flame
Director of Photography
Take Me Away!
Director of Photography
Kyoko met Tetsu during her trip to San Francisco. Soon they fell in love but getting married was not in his mind. They were to meet again back in Tokyo but Tetsu didn't turn up. She went to look for him in San Francisco but all she found was him with his new girlfriend. Kyoko went back to Tokyo and eventually married a big corporate CEO...
Hateshinaki zecchô
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Sex Horoscope: Love Tasting
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1978. A film director, producer, and writer take a working vacation at a resort on the advice of their horoscopes. For the next week, the three men conduct interviews with many young women, seeking to discover their next starlet.
Erotic Campus: Rape Reception
Director of Photography
Ryu, a sinister transfer student with a dark past, sexually assaults his way through his nubile female classmates to his ultimate conquest, the leggy athletic champ and class president Misa. Tadao, a fellow classmate, is also in love with Misa and wants to take her virginity for himself. The big Eros High School track meet is happening soon. Will these two boys ruin her chance of winning? What strange secret is Misa hiding from everyone? Why is Ryu prancing around in a banana hammock with a pet pig?
Confessions of a Teenage Mother
Director of Photography
After having dropped out of school and given birth at age 16, Mako has little choice but to move in with the baby's deadbeat father. Struggling to make ends meet by working at a bar and in constant conflict with her conservative parents, Mako has to find her way in a harsh world.
Wet and Crying: Based On Aiko Nakayama's School of Widows
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1977.
A Portrait of Shunkin
Director of Photography
Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight.
Confessions of a Secretary
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1976. Hitomi Kozue's penultimate role.
Toruko saishin tekunikku: Kyuzetsu
Cinematography
The Sea of Eden
Director of Photography
Nanjo, a new teacher at a girls' high school, unwittingly becomes the object of gossip when he buys underwear for Shimizu and spends his vacation with a female teacher. It turns out that Nanjo and Shimizu have fallen in love.
Nurse's Sex Journal
Director of Photography
Akemi is a laboratory technician who spends her evenings spying on her gangster neighbor as he makes love to his stripper girlfriend. The objects of Akemi's voyeuristic attentions learn of her interests and suggest that she would make a fine prostitute. Not surprisingly Akemi agrees and channels her interests into this more lucrative occupation.
The Surf
Cinematography
Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo. Yasuo spreads unpleasant gossip about his rival, and Hatsue's father forbids her to see Shinji. But when the boy saves the passengers on a boat owned by Hatsue's father, his luck in love begins to change.
Time of First Love
Cinematography
3 senior highschool girls help make a hot air balloon for a boy during their summer holidays and took up all sort of part-time jobs in the course.
Rose and Whip
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1975.
The Izu Dancer
Director of Photography
While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.
Younger Sister
Director of Photography
Akio's sister, Neri has separated from her boyfriend. They lived in Kamakura. She moves in with her brother. Her ex-boyfriend's sister, Eiko comes to see Neri. She wonders if the separation occurred due to her because the three of them used to live together. Eiko's brother has disappeared in the meantime.
Affairs in a Housing Complex
Director of Photography
Kyoko has been married to Keisuke three years but recently, she has this feeling that she cannot entirely trust her husband. She hires Terao, a private eye, to prove her doubts are groundless. Poor Kyoko does not seem to know that, "He who digs a pit for others, falls into it himself". The private eye and his friend call on Kyoko when her husband is out and brutally rape her over and over again. By slow degrees, she gives herself up to the sexual pleasures she feels while being brutally treated. It is a sensation she had never experienced before, little knowing who had masterminded the tortures.
Red Paper Lantern
Director of Photography
A young and newly-married couple in Tokyo lives a hard life moving repeatedly because of their unfamiliar relationships with their surroundings.
Damp Bank Notes
Director of Photography
The story of a bank clerk that embezzles money for her lover, which he loses gambling on boat races. This is a fictional drama, based on various social incidents that occurred one after another amid mixed social unrest.
Confessions of An Adolescent Wife: Ecstasy
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1974.
Sex Education Mistresses
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Wandering Seagull: Night in Kushiro
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
(Maruhi) Shôsha Jôhô: Onna Kaishime Urioshimi
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Love Makes Me Wet
Director of Photography
Enka Jôshikô: Kizudarake no Kaben
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1973
Sweet Scent of Eros
Director of Photography
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.
Secret of Concubine Palace Addendum: Convent's Gate of Lust
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1973.
Maruhi: Benten gokaichō
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1972.
The Blonde in Edo Castle
Director of Photography
A concubine is exiled from the Shogun's harem after she is found guilty of having tried to smuggle a kabuki dancer into the palace for the purpose of an illicit affair. Another conubine believes she has been framed and keeps investigating.
Three Wives: Wild Nights
Director of Photography
A suspense drama that comically depicts the intersection of love, sex, and money between men and women. One day, an affair with Taro Mishima's wife, Itsuko, and his subordinate Akizuki was discovered. Mishima blames them, but the relationship with hostess Noriko is pointed out. After all this, they divorce and each remarry. However, Mishima's carnal desire extended to a young housekeeper Kimiko. Noriko's son Takashi marries his former lover, Etsuko. They start a new life at the residence of Mishima. Two men and three women cross each other under one roof, and a storm of desire blows up.
The Sloe-eyed Siren
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1972.
Foreigner's Mistress Oman: Tempestuous Skin
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. Third and final film of the "Oman" series.
The Hidden Lover
Director of Photography
Kiyoshi Yoshida plays Sotaro, a popular television performer, who manages a one-night stand with country-girl Yuko (Yuko Katagiri). She falls madly in love with him, and he enjoys the home-spun attention. When Yuko agrees to a prenuptial contract demanding her silence about the vows and permitting Sotaro the luxury of an "open marriage," they wed in a secret ceremony. However, after a couple weeks of Sotaro's womanizing, Yuko is unable to handle the situation and she attempts to kill both her husband and herself. The resulting scandal costs Sotaro his reputation and career; Yuko is sentenced to a 3 year jail term. But when she gets released, they get back together and try to establish the marriage on a "firmer footing."
Night of the Felines
Director of Photography
Set in a Shinjuku bathhouse brothel, the film uncovers the sexual eccentricities of everyday people. Focusing on three female sex workers, the colorful, unpredictable look into the hidden underbelly of Japanese nightlife is playful but also unafraid to explore the darker sides of the business. The fleeting nature of relationships in such an environment and the consequences of toying with feelings are presented with a melancholy tinge.
She-Beasts, Warm Bodies
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1972.
Coed Report: Blooming Yuko
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1971. Sequel to Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts (1971).
Thirsty for Love
Director of Photography
Kazuko Shirakawa plays a girl who left home to satisfy her inner lust. Her passion turns to despair when she looks at her miserable life and sees the loss of her one true love and eventually becomes a prostitute. Everything is masterminded by her jealous sister, who hopes to bed her husband. She eventually gets her wish.
Castle Orgies
Director of Photography
A young girl who has been made a maidservant in the harem of the Tokugawa shogun. She is entrusted with the role of the mistress's maid and gradually grows up to be a woman.
Wet Sand in August
Director of Photography
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end.
Onna no Iji
Cinematography
2 years ago, Kumi broke up with Shuhei and decided to forget everything about him for good. However, after being told that her younger sister, Junko, fall in love with a man and is currently living with him. She was determined to discover who was the man who won her sister's heart. But what will happen when she found out that the man in question is Shuhei, her first love?
Step on the Gas!
Director of Photography
Yūji, fresh out of prison on parole, meets a stranger named Nao that asks for his assistance...
Vermillion Sword: Scabbard Code Sword Amidst the Swirling Cherry Blossoms
Cinematography
Beginning of the Showa era, Takasaki City in Joshu (Gunma Province). Gambler Inufushi Yoichi continues to lose at Takamasa's gambling house. The authoritative female gambler Ai gives him money and advises him to think seriously about his life. She has to leave Takamasa because of him. She travels to Tomioka for advice from Matsumiya Seiji, who previously helped her. However, the latter is killed due to a conflict with the Kaizu-gumi yakuza family, making his wife Tane a widow...
The Elder Sister
Cinematography
Follows the struggles of a yakuza wife after his husband gets hurt in a knife fight.
Youth Bell
Cinematography
A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A masterpiece of youth drama starring the eternal idol Kazuo Funaki.
Eternal Love
Cinematography
The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.
The Man of Victory
Director of Photography
Fighting Elegy
Director of Photography
Kiroku boards with a Roman Catholic family and falls for the daughter Michiko. He ignores his feelings, joins a gang, gets in fights and, eventually, becomes involved with the radical Kita Ikki group.
The Stormy Man
Director of Photography
A remake of the 1957 classic "Man Who Raised a Storm" with Watari Tetsuya in the title role.
Three Wild Cats
Cinematography
Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.
Love Eternal
Director of Photography
A deep mist envelops the port city of Yokohama. The scent of crime is everywhere. As an executive member of a drug trafficking syndicate, Kano is pretty high up in the food chain, but "status" bears no value to him. All he cares for is Ayako, the boss' mistress. After one last job, they intend to run off together to Hong Kong, but their plans are hindered when an uninvited yakuza stirs up a vicious shootout. In the midst of it all, Ayako is kidnapped.
Blood Shed
Director of Photography
Ginjiro was born to a family of nobility, though he yearned for freedom. To earn this freedom, he affiliates himself with the worst of the worst. Swearing his allegiance to the notorious Kuroiwa crime syndicate, the yakuza family known for its thirst for blood, Ginjiro equips for battle. When a rival family raids their gambling parlor, he slashes a masked henchman. Unbeknown to him, his victim was no henchman.
The Song of Love
Director of Photography
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
Song of Farewell
Director of Photography
Japanese drama film.
Beyond the Green Hills
Director of Photography
Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.
Fresh Leaves
Director of Photography
Keiko is pretty and intelligent but her home life is not a happy one. Never having known a father's love, she develops a possessive attachment to Mr. Mazaki, the new mathematics teacher.
Teenage Yakuza
Director of Photography
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
東京市街戦
Cinematography
After World War II life in Japan was hard. There was lawlessness, rapine, never enough food or money. One girl, raped by three men, called out the name of Kentaro before she died and this was something that people in this small section of downtown Tokyo remembered. Life went on, however, and local boss Hiramatsu Daizo decided to build a market, aided by his daughter Aya. They met opposition until one day a young man named Kentaro appears who it is rumored he was the vengeful lover of the murdered girl. He lives with Sabu and Yukari, the children the girl looked after before she died, and helps with the market, coming to the rescue with a bulldozer when Daizo is threatened by a rival group. When Daizo is finally killed, Kentaro carries on the work. Finally the market is completed, the rival group makes a last stand but is machine-gunned down by Kentaro who, after saying that he was not the one whose name the dying girl called out, leaves town for good.