Isao Yamagata Movies

This subversive period film features a hotheaded young samurai, Kurodo, who threatens to commit harakiri in response to the humiliation meted out to...

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the...

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the...

Romantic melodrama

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from...

1962 Japanese movie

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....

Young swordsman, Tsukigata Hanpeita, longs for the day when rival clans cease their struggles for power and put an end to meaningless feudal wars....

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

Magistrate Ooka and a samurai fight against evil forces.

One after another, expedition teams were being attacked in the Himalayas. With the unprecedented boom in snow men, the public began to make a fuss...

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.

The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted...

A shooting incident occurs at the Asahina family gambling hall in Tokyo's Joto district. It is the work of Gaijin boss Brown and his henchman...

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

Japanese horror movie from 1982.