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.
Unfortunately the movie The Stairway to the Distant Past is not yet available on HBO Max.
| Directing | Kaizo Hayashi | Director |
| Writing | Kaizo Hayashi | Screenplay |
| Art | Tomohisa Masumoto | Production Design |
| Production | Kazutoshi Wadakura | Producer |
| Lighting | Tatsuya Osada | Gaffer |
| Costume & Make-Up | Masae Miyamoto | Costume Design |
| Directing | Ayako Uchida | Script Supervisor |
| Directing | Koji Hagiuda | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Daisaku Kobayashi | Assistant Director |
| Writing | Daisuke Tengan | Screenplay |
| Sound | Yôko Kumagai | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Hidehiko Urayama | Original Music Composer |
| Camera | Yuichi Nagata | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Nobuko Tomita | Editor |
| Art | Takeo Kimura | Art Direction |
| Directing | Isao Yukisada | Assistant Director |
| Production | Yutaka Gotô | Executive Producer |
| Production | Kazutoshi Wadakura | Executive Producer |
| Production | Motoki Ishida | Assistant Production Manager |
| Production | Kaizo Hayashi | Producer |
