Yoshito Yamaji Movies

The warlords overrun the country while the farmers are starving, and forced to become soldiers to keep the wolf from the door. The farmers are...

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

Kofu duty guard Yamauchi Hinata-kami cultivated illegal drugs and had them sold through Omiya, a drug wholesaler in Edo Muromachi. One day, a strange...

A parody based on Kabuki plays about thieves led by the famous Soshun Kochiyama.

A period mystery in which an unconventional priest exposes the truth behind the bizarre death of a maid in the shogun's harem. Kinuyo Tanaka...

On the night the shogunate's treasury was breached, the guard Utsugi had already been taken down. His colleague Ryunosuke felt responsible and...

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

The story of a boy who befriends a lonely middle-aged man.

1962 Japanese movie

Nakamura Yukinojō, Edo's most popular actor, discovered that his parent's enemy, Ohara Genba, had changed his name to Isshiki Kurōnosuke...

1962 Japanese movie

Third and last movie in the Yakuza Hijoshi trilogy.

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

In the eleventh year of the Tenpō era, the Kawarazaki-za theater in Edo buzzed with excitement for a new production of "Kanjinchō" by...

The crew of the Red Ocean, shipwrecked off Taiwan, was mostly rescued, but only the radio operator Toyono was missing. Toyono, drifting at sea, was...