Maiku Hama Private Eye Trilogy

Number of Movies: 3

Overview

Kaizo Hayashi wrote, produced, and directed this three part series centering around the exploits of his creation Maiku Hama, a Generation X answer to the private eye.

Featured Cast

Masatoshi Nagase

Maiku Hama/Mikki

Akaji Maro

Lt. Nakayama

Shiro Sano

Masaru Kanno

Mika Ohmine

Akane Hama

Joe Shishido

Jo Shishido

Featured Crew

Kaizo Hayashi

Directing

Shunsuke Koga

Production

Tsutomu Sakurai

Production

Kaizo Hayashi

Directing

Masae Miyamoto

Costume & Make-Up

Tsuyoshi Sugino

Production

Ayako Uchida

Directing

3 Movies

Maiku Hama is a private detective working in Yokohama. Hama comes to the aid of a Taiwanese waiter named Yang and agrees to track down his missing brother. Through a series of double-crosses Hama gets embroiled in a gang war and a revenge plot between the two brothers

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is lit on a criminal powder keg set to blow the lid off the Yokohama underworld.

The Trap

May 25, 1996

When a hooded stranger appears in private eye 'Mike' Hama's office with the cryptic challenge "I want you to look for me," Hama is drawn into a string of bizarre serial murders that have Yokohama's police baffled and the city terrified.

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