Yoichi Takabayashi Movies

Yoshiyama Kazuko is a third-year junior high school student. One day while cleaning the lab, she smells lavender and faints. From then on, she has...

To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro...

A husband and wife are on the road doing a traveling BDSM show at various seedy locations. The wife is getting bored with the show and wants to quit....

A woman and her bridegroom are found murdered in their bed the day after their wedding. It had snowed overnight and the killer left no tracks. It is...

Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known...

Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to...

While on an errand for her husband a young wife does a little impulsive shoplifting. But she is caught and soon finds herself blackmailed into...

The story takes place during the end of the Pacific War and the aftermath period and it focuses on Mizoguchi, who is the son of a Buddhist Priest....

The mysterious relationship between a breast-sick sister who lives in a warehouse and the younger brother who longs for her.

Film adaptation to Junichiro Tanizaki's novel "Naomi". Focused around a man's obsession for a "modern girl".

Erotic drama

A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple's household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she...

1978 Japanese film directed by Yoichi Takabayashi.

A steam locomotive that runs on a trip and the beautiful four seasons of Japan.

Yoichi Takabayashi’s “Musashino” is a black and white film with sound that takes place in the woods of the legendary Musashino...

An Obayashi film made with Takabayashi Yoichi.

The theme is that even if the prostitution prohibition law is enforced, as long as the female body continues to exist, "prostitute" sex is eternal. ,...

Docudrama starring dollmaker Keisuke Okuyama.