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

Masae Miyamoto

Costume & Make-Up

Shunsuke Koga

Production

Kaizo Hayashi

Directing

Ayako Uchida

Directing

Tsutomu Sakurai

Production

Tsuyoshi Sugino

Production

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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