The best Hisashi Igawa’s comedy movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Hisashi Igawa’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Hisashi Igawa.
Boiling Point
6.8/10
Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.
Tampopo
7.9/10
A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle soup making".
Rhapsody in August
7.2/10
The story centers on an elderly hibakusha, who lost her husband in the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, caring for her four grandchildren over the summer. She learns of a long-lost brother, Suzujiro, living in Hawaii who wants her to visit him before he dies.
Kitokito!
5.9/10
Coming of age story about a boy and his mother.
This Madding Crowd
7.4/10
Boys Meet Girls
5.9/10
A boy transfers into a new high school in the big city. He gets bullied, but meets a pretty girl. He tries to win her heart, but rivals abound.
Tora-san's Runaway
6.7/10
After an encounter with a dying yakuza's son and at his sister Sakura's urging, Torajiro attempts to change his vagrant lifestyle and become an honest worker with a steady job.
Glowing Autumn
7/10
A very beautiful Japanese woman is in love with Persian carpets. She is being chased by lecherous Saburi Shin and a handsome young photographer. Lecherous Saburi Shin knows what she wants, and is able to produce it for her.
Tom Cat Holmes' Deduction
A detective film by Nobuhiko Ōbayashi. Made for TV.
The Love and Adventures of Kuroki Taro
6.7/10
Taro Kuroki, 42, is a stuntman with a samurai's heart. He loves adventures, plays pranks with the police, tries to cure a cat lady by reversing her trauma, and finally, rescues his niece who is about to be lured into prostitution.
Fusa
6.6/10
Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.
