Hachiro Matsui

Birth : 1919-05-11,

Death : 1976-08-30

Movies

喜劇 駅前大学
Music
#13 in the Ekimae series of films. Set at Todai University, Professor Sakai (played by Frankie Sakai) mentors a group of university hopefuls. Cut to 25 years later, the students have each settled into their careers and cross paths with Professor Sakai's son, a P.E. teacher (also played by Sakai).
An Impudent Man
Original Music Composer
Naomasa, the former lord of Okayama Castle and the head of the Iseda family, takes a strange boy, Kirihito, under his wing. However, Naomasa is sent to Europe for his rather too liberal lifestyle…
喜劇 とんかつ一代
Music
Ensemble comedy.
Pleasant Company
Original Music Composer
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
Original Music Composer
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
A Night in Hong Kong
Music
Romantic melodrama set in contemporary Hong Kong, Japan and Laos. Hiroshi Tanaka (Takarada) is a Japanese journalist on assignment in Hong Kong who meets and falls in love with Wu Li Hung (Ming). He proposes to Wu Li but she rejects him because of her distaste for mixed marriages (her mother was Japanese but deserted her family and returned to Japan during WWII). Tanaka locates Wu Li’s mother and unsuccessfully tries to reunite them, but eventually Wu Li accepts his proposal. A joyous Tanaka flies off to Laos to finish an assignment but on the eve of his wedding he is killed there.
Fool's Love
Original Music Composer
A young man (Eiji Funakoshi) lavishes his complete attention and resources on a beautiful young girl (Junko Kano) who was picked up in the Ikebukuro district of Tokyo.
The Adventures of Kantaro
Music
Comedy historical film about a wandering warrior, based on the novel by Shin Hasegawa.
続・社長太平記
Music
7th film in the President series and the first entry in color.
A Holiday in Tokyo
Original Music Composer
May Kawaguchi is a famous Japanese fashion designer. Returning to Tokyo from her home in New York, she travels incognito with a tour group, in hopes of having a quiet vacation without being noticed. But she is spotted and the press has a field-day with the returning celebrity. Her hopes of rest shattered, she agrees to put on a large-scale fashion show.
The Princess of Badger Palace
Original Music Composer
Japanese fantasy film.
Teenage Sazae
Music
Adaptation of the popular Sazae-San comic strip. The first entry in the series shot in color.
Birth of Romance
Music
The cabaret «Romance», run by Masami Daisaku's father, is experiencing financial difficulties, and Masami is betting on changes and asks singer Hibari Misora to perform. Musical youth comedy with young actors, passion, funny songs and laughter. Hibari Misora appears as herself.
はりきり社長
Music
The third instalment in the Shacho Series.
Daigaku no kengô: Keiraku no abarenbô
Original Music Composer
Japanese youth film about kendo.
The President Talks Bank
Music
The president learns that the company's biggest stockholder is also a friend of his singing teacher and spies on his movements.
The Fencing Collegian
Original Music Composer
Japanese sports comedy film about kendo.
Morishige's Honeymoon
Original Music Composer
Japanese comedy film.
The President's Boss
Music
A new third-class president wins an appointment thanks to his marriage with the former president's daughter.
一等女房と三等亭主
Music
Tokyo Profile
Music
A human billboard and a shoeshine girl met a kid of five who got separated from her mother at a street of Ginza. They try to find a mother in a crowded town...
Yasugorō shusse
Original Music Composer
Third Class Executives
Music
1950s Japanese comedy.
The Scarlet Gang of Asakusa
Original Music Composer