Zenji Yamada Movies

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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...

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

1962 Japanese movie

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...

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

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

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