Zenji Yamada Movies

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Motomu Ida movie

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Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

Emi Ikushima, a star actress in the Roses, is half-hearted, but she wasn't disappointed by the news of her father Enmy's sudden death, and she...

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Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

This is a magnificent drama about love and chivalry, telling about the stormy fate of Seiji, nicknamed "The Rising Dragon", who swore never to take...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Hideaki Nitani

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

Genre: War

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

A man and a woman meet through a strange fate. This unique melodrama depicts the course of their budding love in a corner of the big city.

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Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A celebrity, dissatisfied with his personal and professional lives, impulsively leaves fast-paced Tokyo to deliver a much-needed jeep to a remote...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

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Cast: Masayuki Mori

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

An exciting and fast-paced entertaining action in which G-Man Joe of Aces (Japanese version 007) challenges a terrible international mafia...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

Little dark-eyed boy Kazuo. Yes, he dreamed of the sea. However, like everyone here in the village. Kazuo only wanted to study first, to finish...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Ôta

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jun Hamamura

Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frankie Sakai

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hisaya Morishige

A man who became the third boss faces off against delinquent foreigners and villains vying to rule the underworld in order to develop the port city.

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A detective drama that realistically shows the work of an experienced detective who, under cover, pursues the organizer of the arms trade route from...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

Shoichi Kokubun (Yujiro Ishihara) is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Ippei, a bored private detective hears from his assistant Hideko an interesting story that General Semyonov who has been exiled to Japan buried his...

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Cast: Seizaburō Kawazu

Genre: History

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tamio Kawachi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kyōji Aoyama

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The tragic tale of Kiyono, a young woman from the mountain who fell in love with Takuji, a fisherman's son, and her devotion to him during a time of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A film starring Teruhiko Saigo and Hideki Takahashi about two men who join the fight against a gang selling weapons.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

A musical film based on the original work of Saigo Teruhiko. After leaving the juvenile detention center and returning to his hometown of Ibusuki,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

A young journalist is writing an article on what happens to girls who are raped. He uncovers the story of a young girl who committed suicide when...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Three women, deceived by a man, make full use of their feminine weapons, replete with daring and unbridled seduction strategies.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumiko Nogawa

A battle for a large sum of money unfolds on the docks near a steel mill in a foggy atmosphere. Manzo, an engineer on the verge of retirement,...

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Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

In the middle of the era, Taisho, a big boss in Asakusa Iizuka, was severely questioned by the police about the source of funds for the Daido...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Jō Shishido

Kosuke Suzuki returns to Hakata's hometown after learning that his best friend Takehara has disappeared. Kosuke is persistently hindered by Hasebe...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Fourth film in the Aitsu series. The outlaw-cum-travelling guitarist discovers that his friend has been killed by the gangsters who held up the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Satoshi Tsuzuki...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Hideaki Nitani

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Machiko Kyō

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Shoichi Ozawa

Goro (Tetsuya Watari) wants to put his dark past behind. He heads to Hirosaki City to offer his condolences to Yumeko and to reunite with Yukiko...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between...

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Cast: Kyosuke Aihara

Japanese action film.

Genre: Action

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

Genre: Music

Cast: Teruhiko Saigō

Joe, Okita, and Serizawa hear of the armed robbery of a truck carrying one billion eighty million yen's worth of Mint paper. Knowing that the thugs...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jō Shishido

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Nobuo Kaneko

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideki Takahashi

Might Guy Akira's unique action drama depicts the bizarre fate of a young doctor who vows to avenge his girlfriend, who was shot by a yakuza on a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Akira Kobayashi

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a...

Genre: Action

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

Businessmen arrange the early release from prison of Togawa, serving time for taking revenge on the truck driver whose carelessness confined Togawa's...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Ruriko's father is a well known scientist who's involved in secret research that even his family doesn't know about. Ever since he moved up to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryōji Hayama

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and...

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Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Kawai Midori's father left the family a long time ago and since her mother passed away, she has taken care of her younger siblings by herself by...

Genre: Music

Cast: Chiemi Eri

In 1943, Japan is amidst the Pacific War. Sobei Sonoda is one of the wealthiest landowners of the San'in region. His land spread for miles, as far as...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masayuki Mori

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

Ise, a successful entrepreneur, accidentally murders his lunatic wife after he is spotted having an affair with his secretary, Harumi. In his attempt...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Tamio Kawachi

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

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Cast: Mie Kitahara

After getting out of prison, a young yakuza tries to find out who killed his girlfriend, attempts not to get drawn back into crime, and to find his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Masako Izumi

When a mysterious stranger muscles into two rival yakuza gangs, Tokyo's underworld explodes with violence.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jō Shishido

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

In the thriving Tokyo neighborhood of Ginza, a woman in the process of selling her estranged husband’s art collection attempts to identify the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yumeji Tsukioka

Final installment of THE WANDERING GUITARIST series.

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Cast: Akira Kobayashi

Eikichi Yamashiro, who is a former contender for the boxing title, works as a manager at a Club Champion owned by his fiancé Natsuko’s...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Mihashi

A marine security officer stranded on the ocean in a small boat is rescued by a crew of buccaneers.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

In the backstreets of Ginza, the boss of a hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The detective on the case soon hears rumors...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Shinsuke Maki

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Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jō Shishido

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideko Takamine

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuo Funaki

The fourth film in the Tales of a Gunman series. When Ryuji throws his pistol into the sea, he is attacked by a man who calls himself Sabu and says...

Genre: Action

Cast: Keiichirō Akagi

Japanese crime film

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Cast: Michitarō Mizushima

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isao Kimura

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic.

Genre: Action

Cast: Jō Shishido

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Kiiton Masuda

1958 Japanese movie

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Cast: Mitsuko Mitagawa

Killer Kenji Sasagawa (Odaka) enters the room of a luxurious apartment in the silence of the night and, finding himself in front of the boss of the...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Yuji Odaka

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

A good young man accidentally joins a group of leg breakers

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Genre: Western

Cast: Akira Kobayashi