The best Jun Hamamura’s comedy movies

Jun Hamamura

Jun Hamamura

07/02/1906- 21/06/1995
Today we present the best Jun Hamamura’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Jun Hamamura’s movies.

Mr. Baseball

Mr. Baseball
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/10/1992
  • Character: Hiroko's Grandfather
Jack Elliot, a one-time MVP for the New York Yankees is now on the down side of his baseball career. With a falling batting average, does he have one good year left and can the manager of the Chunichi Dragons, a Japanese Central baseball league find it in him?

Fighting Elegy

Fighting Elegy
6.9/10
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.

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip

Wet Lust: Opening the Tulip
3.5/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/12/1975
Akira and Hiroshi are two lowlives who hang around pachinko parlours. Hiroshi is a ladies' man but always loses at pachinko. Akira is a virgin at 25 but always wins. Hiroshi tries to get Akira laid with little success but things change when Akira is informed of a 88 million yen inheritance.

Tora-san's Grand Scheme

Tora-san's Grand Scheme
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/02/1970
After winning big at the races, Torajiro Kuruma wants to take his aunt and uncle on a trip to Hawaii to partly pay the great filial debt he feels he owes them, but the plan hits a snag. Also, a pretty kindergarten teacher rents a room at Toraya.

Hole in One

Hole in One
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyMystery
  • Release: 15/09/1957
  • Character: Taxi driver
A female reporter is fired for writing about police corruption; to make money while hiding from the press, she posts a bounty upon herself.

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan

The Scandalous Adventures of Buraikan
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/04/1970
  • Character: Kanoke-boshi
An outlaw pushes the residents of Edo's red light district to rebel against a growing number of stifling, moralistic laws.

Ten Black Women

Ten Black Women
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1961
  • Character: Actor
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

Being Two Isn't Easy

Being Two Isn't Easy
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/11/1962
  • Character: Older Doctor
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Temptation

Temptation
6.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/09/1957
  • Character: Boarding House Owner
Shokichi, a shop owner and middle-aged widower, could never forget your first love. The second floor of the shop is an art gallery where his avant-garde daughter and other young people gather. One of these becomes a successful painter, and one day Akiko appears in the gallery with the painting titled Woman. Shokichi surprised to find that the "woman" is actually his first love, and Akiko is like the image writing it.

Main Theme

Main Theme
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 14/07/1984
  • Character: Ichirota Daitojima
One day, kindergarten teacher meets a novice magician and together they travel to another city to find love...

That Guy and I

That Guy and I
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 10/09/1961
  • Character: Professor Takano
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.

The Lucky General

The Lucky General
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/08/1962
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.

Family Secrets

Family Secrets
6.9/10
Kenji Shimamura has trouble being intimate with his girlfriend Noriko after a lifetime of watching his parents bicker over his father’s infidelity. After he spurns her advances, causing her to storm off in an offended rage, he decides it’s time to seek psychological help. Unfortunately that costs money and the best way to earn some quick cash in his family is to spy on his dad for his mother. He quickly discovers his dad has a young girlfriend named Yukari. Figuring the best way to deal with this gracefully is to come clean with Yukari he tells her all about their family and the real estate business his parents run together. Unfortunately, however, his plan backfires. Instead of being scared off Yukari applies for a job at the family business and befriends Kenji’s mother, setting up a chain of events that makes things awkward for everyone involved.

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