Yoshihiro Yamazaki

Movies

Bokyo
Director of Photography
In 1940, Kubota Shoten, which has been in business for generations, goes bankrupt due to the debauched lifestyle of its president, Kunimitsu Kubota. Subsequently, Kunimitsu moves back to his hometown and his children are sent to live with other relatives.
The Setting Sun
Director of Photography
A Japanese soldier is forced to question alliances when he meets and falls in love with the leader of the rebel movement.
Ningen no sabaku
Director of Photography
The Blue Mountains '88
Director of Photography
Mother
Director of Photography
From the point-of-view of the children, "Mother" tells the story of the most unappreciated, loving and giving mother, who would sacrifice her own life, and sometimes the life of others, for her loved ones. In the autumn of 1955, a family of five children is living in the Tohoku area. In order to take care of her paralysed husband, the mother has to sacrifice her five children by giving them away. The children has to suffer all the loneliness and hardships that this decision has brought them. 15 years have passed, all five of them have got married. Now, they come to understand that their mother's love for them was the greatest love of all.
Women Who Do Not Divorce
Director of Photography
Keiichi (Kenichi Hagiwara) is a weather man. He gets involved with two married women, Yoshiko (Mitsuko Baisho) and Miyoko (Chieko Baisho). Both want to divorce but are trapped in meaningless marriages. While being undecided of who he wants to chose, Keiichi witnesses passions boil to an unforgiving climax.
A Promise
Director of Photography
An old woman has died and her widower with dementia confesses to killing her. After this, the story goes back in time to show the events leading up to her death.
Mischievous Lolita Attacking the Virgin from Behind
Director of Photography
Toru was an ordinary businessman. One day he found a doll in the trash, and he took it home. In the next morning, he heard strange noises in the house, although he was supposed to be living alone. He finds out that the doll has turned into a real girl, naked, wearing only an apron. And they start to live together.
Scent of a Spell
Director of Photography
A young man returns home from the bar only to find a woman who was about to kill herself. Taking her home and protecting her, he learns that she’s escaped from a violent husband. but there’s more to her story than she's willing to tell at first.
Love Letter
Director of Photography
A drama depicting the conflict between a man that ran to an old lover suffering from advanced leukemia, his wife and child that were left behind, and the friendship that develops between his wife and his former lover.
Flower and Snake 2: Sketch of Hell
Director of Photography
Kaori Aso lives in the wealthy family. She cheated her stepmother that she has been kidnapped by somebody. Unfortunately, Aso's accomplice really does kidnap her and her stepmother.
Terra Warrior Ψ BOY
Director of Photography
Six year old Momoko and Motoharu are turned suddenly into High school students. And more than that they have now psychic powers.
Koichiro Uno's Caressing the Peach
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
High School Teacher: Maturing
Director of Photography
A female highschool teacher must deal with sexual harrassment from her students and being trapped in a love triangle with two men, neither of whom has any interest in marrying her.
Baajin nante kowakunai
Director of Photography
Ran no nikutai
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Danchizuma: New Town Kinryô-ku
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Impurity Relation
Director of Photography
A sensual drama depicting a man who lives like a pimp with his wife and three other women.
Shunjômu
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Female Teacher: Twice Raped
Director of Photography
A high school science teacher is popular among male students, and this worked out badly for her...
Musashino shinjū
Director of Photography
Iro zange
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Woman with Pierced Nipples
Director of Photography
A lovesick midinette ends up accepting a date with a stranger who buys her flowers every day. Charmed by his playboy physique, she moves in with him and submits to his fantasies.
Shunga
Director of Photography
Former boxer Kazuo, who has fallen, finds a spring picture in a tea envelope in a house. Kazuo returns to herself with a noise and sees Kyoko in her dimly lit bedroom is sullenly sleeping.
Burning Princess
Director of Photography
An eros drama depicting a couple or lover indulging in swapping in search of pleasure. Yoshii, a fledgling reporter for swapping magazines, visits Mr. and Mrs. Sakura. Yoshii experiences the technique of Sakura's wife, Akane.
Red Scandal: Affair
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1982. A young university associate professor sells her body as a high-class prostitute while her husband is away, despite being in a calm relationship. The husband, while turning a blind eye to the behavior of such a wife, begins to feel a masochistic pleasure, and two people connect with a mysterious marital love.
Juken ianpu
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Anne's Lullaby
Director of Photography
A sex-comedy starring rock star Michiko Komori.
Pleasure in the Mirror
Director of Photography
A young man covets his sister-in-law, and spies on her in the bath using a two-way mirror. His desire grows as he watches her have sex with his older brother. Will the voyeur's lust get the best of him?
Woman in Black Lingerie
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1982. A young woman embezzles five million yen from her company and flees with her boyfriend, attempting to start a new life...
Madam Scandal: Let Me Die for 10 Seconds
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1982.
Beautiful Sisters: Seduced
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1982.
My Girlfriend Wears an Uniform
Director of Photography
Rolling on the Road
Director of Photography
George is a washed-up middle-aged rocker, who divorces his wife and lives with his girlfriend, a soap massage parlor worker.
Lustful Life: Night Make Me Wet!
Director of Photography
A woman endures the life of a prostitute for a yakuza pimp.
Uniform Girls: The Fruit Is Ripe
Director of Photography
Three high school student girls are on their spring break. They are expecting to get some sex of course. One becomes an adult magazine model. The second one nets a boyfriend. The third one is a little shy and needs helps from her friends. This last girl has fallen in love so her friends take her to his window and, by chance, arrive when mother is performing fellatio on son. The shy and pure third girl is in awe of a mother 'eating' genitalia and wants to give a similar performance.
The Moon Mask Rider
Director of Photography
The Moon Mask Rider is a tokusatsu movie produced by Purumie International/Herald Enterprises and distributed by Nippon Herald Pictures, was released theatrically on March 14, 1981. Considered Japan's answer to the American box-office fiasco, The Legend of the Lone Ranger (released the same year), this updated version of the Moonlight Mask legend bombed at the Japanese box-office. Daisuke Kuwahara (who, like Klinton Spilsbury , disappeared from doing films) plays George Owara (Moon Mask Rider's new alter-ego), and the rest of the cast made up of veteran action starlets: Sue Shihomi, Daijiro Harada and Takayuki Godai.
Tanshin funin jōji no himitsu
Director of Photography
An office lady follows his boss, whose work affairs had been discovered inside the company and he has been ordered to be transferred to another workplace.
Sex Hunter
Director of Photography
A beautiful young ballet dancer is accepted into a prestigious and exclusive dance academy. Overjoyed at the opportunity to further her career and repair her relationship with her boyfriend, she soon discovers that the academy has a much, much darker side to it--and she may not be able to escape it.
Tanshin funin: Niizuma no himitsu
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Waka-goke Ama: Uzuku
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Joshidaisei: Kairaku Ayame-ryô
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Rape Hunter: Target Woman
Director of Photography
Fuyuko, a married woman filled with grief after a miscarriage, has an affair with a younger man and finds herself involved in a robbery plot. For Fuyuko, who is at an impasse, there is no longer "family", "love" and "freedom".
Uno Koichiro no nurete modaeru
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Pleasure Tour: Ascension Bath
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1979.
Eros Nights in Tokyo
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno production featuring Ayako Meki in her film debut.
Hurricane Rape
Director of Photography
Iwata, cheerleader of a university, Odagiri, a free lance cameraman, and Sekiguchi, a day laborer working on a subway project. As they pass an area dotted with the villas of affluent people, they decide to stop at one to ask the owner to let them put through a phone call. What they seen when they enter the gate makes them draw in their breaths quickly and causes their pulses to begin to race madly – Miki, a lass whose only claim to fortune are marvelous breasts, cute nipples and a figure even every top model dreams of having...
Apartment Wife: Target Bedroom
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Marital War in Kibogaoka
Director of Photography
1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
Ori: Komasu
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Forbidden Ordeal
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Izumi Daihachi no okashikko
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Bone of a Butterfly: Hunter with White Skin
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Panic in High School
Director of Photography
A parable about the inefficiency and anachronism of the Japanese educational system, which places an unusually large amount of importance on cramming for university entrance examinations, Panic High School is about the suicide of a high school student and its ensuing fallout at his school. When one of his classmates becomes frustrated with the math teacher's lack of sensitivity to the suicide, the student steals a rifle, returns to school, aerates the teacher's chest and then holds members of his class captive. This leads to an aggressive standoff with the police and lots of shots of his parents crying and bowing in shame, totally mortified.
Uno Kôichiro no kangofuryo
Director of Photography
Nikktatsu Roman Porno
Osoe!
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1978. A woman wants revenge on a corporation for its role in the death of her parents, and she is willing to go to great lengths to achieve her goal.
Shutchô toruko: Mata yukimasu
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
The Lair of Sirens
Director of Photography
The background is Yuraku-cho in Tokyo and the film shows how desperately the women, who had led sheltered lives before the war, struggled to keep alive and the innate strength of post-war women.
Devil in the Flesh
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1977. One day, school student named Jun, suffering from exam hell, meets a dazzling woman named Naoko...
College Girl: One Summer Experience
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Nasty Diver
Director of Photography
The amorous adventures of Reiko, who lives and works in a rural fishing village.
Striptease Artists
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1977.
Sexual Assault at a Hotel
Director of Photography
The lovely Ryoko is attending a Japanese University on an exchange program. She’s pretty, vulnerable, shy and full of mysterious secrets. Meeting up with her long-time friend Rumiko, Ryoko shuns her aggressive lesbian advances by saying she’s still a virgin. Rumiko is surprised at this revelation and, over the next few days, she takes Ryoko on a series of misadventures to help her with her sexual awakening...
The Red Petal Is Wet
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Ah! That Pep Squad 2 -Put on a Good Act-
Director of Photography
“Get them all – girls, school credits, money – without an effort!" These are the rumors that freshman Hachirota Kawachi heard about the pep squad; his reasons for instant enrollment. Hachirota may fall a few screws short of a hardware store, but when it comes to yakuza ties, he has plenty. He is the direct descendant and heir to the notorious Akushin-kai gang. Although this was enough information to keep the pep squad seniors quiet, it’s not quite enough for Aota.
Hotel Tokyo: Beast Play
Cinematography
A Nikkatsu Roman Porno movie
Apartment Wife: Secret Call Girl
Director of Photography
A blackmail ring uses illicit photos of an unfaithful wife to force her into prostitution.
Ah! That Pep Squad
Director of Photography
Life in the pep squad is all about harsh discipline. Seniors are "Gods", juniors are "Humans", sophomores are "Slaves" and freshmen are treated like "Trash". One sunny day, two freshmen are entrusted with the task to dry out the squadron's flag; the most cherished and symbolic item of the squad. When they accidentally burn a hole in the flag with a cigarette, they blame Aota. Aota attempts to take full responsibility by committing "harakiri", but changes his mind during the process – a deep stab to the stomach has inspired him with a better idea.
Exposure: Call Girl's Testimony
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno. The story of a mixed-race callgirl with a high-class clientele.
Kôshoku engi: Nurenure
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Apartment Wife: Flesh Financing
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Shiroi mesuneko: mahiru no ecstasy
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
New Lesbian World: Rapture
Director of Photography
The third installment of the popular "Lesbian World" series. A young evades a male stalker, running to a woman who could teach her the true joys of of love and sex. However, the woman's mistress takes out her knife out of jealousy...
True Story of a Woman in Jail: Continues
Director of Photography
"Jealous" man-killer Mayumi (Hitomi Kozue) is sent back into solitary confinement after being re-arrested for the murder of the doctor who fingered her for a botched surgery. After emerging from solitary confinement to find an all-new gang of bullies picking on a meek, young female prisoner, Mayumi is now a much harder soul who takes no attitude from anyone, and she turns savage when the poor girl is enslaved by Yakuza.
Red Light Tobita Brothel
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1975.
Joshidaisei: Môteru Utamaro asobi
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1975.
New Apartment Wife: Prostitution in Building #13
Director of Photography
Shizu is a housewife whose husband has just flown to Germany to work in his company's branch office. During her husband's absence, Shizu makes her first fatal mistake with her brother-in-law which leads to other men and her involvement with gangsters, dragging her into a mire from which she cannot escape.
Statue in Fire
Director of Photography
Drama about young people in the Japanese rock scene starring the lead singer of Japanese rock band The Tigers (1966-1971, 1981-1983).
The Four Roughnecks
Director of Photography
Gimme gimme gimme! Yusaku Matsuda and his gang are on the hunt for women, money and more money! The late legendary actor, Yusaku Matsuda, stars in this explosive motion picture about the hedonistic lifestyles of four roughnecks directed by Yukihiro Sawada. Takeo Natsuki (Yusaku Matsuda) was just released from prison. He was the leader of three rascals; all they did was cause trouble. When they meet a girl whose father is resisting a forced eviction to make way for a construction site, they come up with their own plans to solve the problem.
Carousel Maki: Wet Affairs of the Night
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1974.
Stolen Pleasures
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1974.
Sex Highway
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1974.
Gypsy Rose: A Docu-Drama
Director of Photography
The film depicts the private life wrapped in the mysterious veil of the dancer Gypsy Rose, who was known as the Monroe of Japan and enthused a wide range of fans.
Apartment Wife: Afternoon Seduction
Director of Photography
Pinku from 1974.
Kanto County Sex Unit
Director of Photography
The Virgin Masquerade
Director of Photography
Pinku from 1973.
Jitsuwa Poruno Jikenbo: Kekkon Sagi
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Retreat Through the Wet Wasteland
Director of Photography
A group of burglars in black tights breaks into a church to commit robbery and commits outrages upon the pastor's young daughter. After some time, Detective Harada and his squad rush/came back to the church they robbed earlier. In the duty station, the police chief informs Harada that his ex-colleague, Nakamura, has escaped from a mental hospital where he had been hospitalized for insanity. Harada and his partner, Kato, are assigned to pursue Nakamura on the run. If Nakamura's insanity turns out to be false, the cop buddies must terminate him and masquerade it as self-defense.
The Climax
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1973.
Temptation of Eros
Director of Photography
Tane, a female clerk of a rubber company in a corner of an industrial area facing Tokyo Bay is a quirky woman, also living on the second floor of the company warehouse.
Mistress
Director of Photography
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Woman on the Night Train
Director of Photography
Saeko is abnormally attached to her older sister, Yumi. When Yumi becomes engaged to Arikawa, Saeko schemes to separate the two. She seduces Arikawa who then becomes confused over his attraction to both sisters.
Night Spot: Drifting Flower
Director of Photography
Concubine Secrets: Lustful Dance
Director of Photography
The twelfth shogun, Ieyoshi, embraces Oruri day and night under the care of Fujioka, a guest attendant at the O-oku. However, Fujioka's senior, Kumoi, who recommends Oseki to him, is not amused at all. The scene between Fujioka and Kumoi was symbolic of the battle between women in the O-oku. Fujioka hears from Orui that she is pregnant and rejoices that she has nothing to fear if she bears the Shogun's child. Meanwhile, Kumoi comforts Bure, who is a lesbian, and asks Oseki to help her get a call from the shogun.
Warmth of Love
Director of Photography
Roman Porno from 1972.
Seduction of the White Angel
Director of Photography
First of Nikkatsu's many Roman Pornos involving nurses.
Dewdrops on the Petals
Director of Photography
Yukie is a young woman who works at her father's flower shop. She uses her job to hide from her problems including a marriage troubled by her sexual frigidity. Her husband and her best friend engage in an affair, and Yukie goes to her father for advice on how to save her marriage.
Coed Report: Yuko's White Breasts
Director of Photography
Yuko is an innocent high school girl who has a crush on her gym teacher. She and her friends have a sleep-over party which develops into a sexual dare-game involving eels, and a lesbian orgy. Now sexually-awakened, Yuko decides to seduce her teacher, but is raped in an elevator before she meets her teacher.
Bad Girl Mako
Director of Photography
Patronized by a gang ruling the city, Mako delinquently plays around a night club every night with her bad company. One night, a guy Hideo gets closer to her for one-night stand, and they consequently fall in love. However, Hideo is killed by the gang. Mako swears vengeance on her beloved's murderer.
Blood For Blood
Director of Photography
The Akiba and Shimura crime families run the streets of “K City”. With the construction of new buildings and new factories underway, the city has sprouted into a boomtown and business is good. Two of the most infamous mobs of Tokyo want a piece of the pie. As out-of-town yakuza flood the city overnight, the crime boss of the Akiba family, Tezuka (Joe Shishido), is released from prison after a five year sentence. He does not like the "change" he sees.
A Man's World
Director of Photography
Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend's death. She was killed for Gang's boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang member wonder if he will do revenge for her death…
Stray Cat Rock: Machine Animal
Director of Photography
Two Japanese men help a Vietnam war deserter escape from Japan for Sweden. They plan to fund the escape by selling LSD pills. After word of the drug deal gets spread around they find themselves fending off rival gangs.
Melody of Rebellion
Director of Photography
The disbandment of the Tanno clan left gang member Tetsu to stray from the crime family's fold. He roamed the streets as a one man band, wearing a denim jacket and long hair with sunglasses to cover his piercing eyes. Befriending a like-minded lone wolf by the name of Gebasaku, Tetsu builds a coalition against higher forces. A graphic portrayal of irrepressible anger and a friendship worth dying for.
Cherry Blossoms in the Air - The Suicide Raiders - Oh, Buddies!
Cinematography
In 1943 Japan is facing defeat. This makes Shinkichi, a straight, selfless student-patriot, ever more restless. He can no longer stand his soft "behind-the- gun" role of munition factory worker. School-mates one after another are going to the front, where he feels he should be. The last straw is an official report of his father's death in the Battle of Attu in the Aleutian Islands. He rushes to the naval air corps training camp at Tsuchiura along with his close school-mates Naito, Yamada, Saito and Tagawa as Volunteer pilot trainees leaving his mother and sweetheart weeping and helpless.
Woman's Police: Appointment with Danger
Cinematography
Kagari (Akira Kobayashi), a scout and overseer of Ginza bar hostesses, receives an urgent phone call from Sawako, a hostess at the bar Rie, and rushes to Tokyo International Airport to meet her. When he arrives she is gone. At the bar he learns that Tabuchi, a steady customer, had been quite friendly with Sawako and may know something. Tabuchi claims he knows nothing and Kagari lets the matter drop. Over time Kagari learns from Takijima, a businessman, that Sawako is in a hospital in Yokohama. Takijima explains that he found her in Singapore working as a street girl and brought her back to Japan. Sawako had lost her memory after being subjected to narcotics. Kagari swears to find the person responsible.
The Cleanup
Cinematography
A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.
We Sell It Because It Sells
Director of Photography
Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.
Mini-Skirt Lynchers
Director of Photography
Film from 1969.
Confession of a girl: The Forbidden Fruit
Cinematography
A unique youth masterpiece depicting the awakening of male and female sexuality with a refreshing touch of the breath of youth.
Outlaw: Heartless
Director of Photography
Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.
Diamonds of the Andes
Director of Photography
Romantic action film set against the beautiful backdrop of Rio de Janeiro. Jiro Ibuki has decided to leave the world of the yakuza and live with his fiancée Reiko.
The Sweet Interns
Director of Photography
Romance about student-nurse interns.
The Sunset Is Crying
Director of Photography
The Spiders hit song made into a movie.
Challenge for Glory
Director of Photography
A young ex-boxer has become a successful businessman, running his various enterprises with his best friend, another boxer whom he accidentally injured in a match. When the latter is found dead, he cannot believe it is suicide and decides to investigate. Sure enough, a group of gangsters is behind his death and, resenting his intrusion, try to ruin him and to pin the murder of his young friend's fiancee on him. At the last minute he shoots it out with the villains and emerges with his reputation intact.
Youth A Go Go!
Director of Photography
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil
Cinematography
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
The Passionate Spinster
Director of Photography
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
The Black Gambler
Director of Photography
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
Flora on the Sand
Director of Photography
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…
The Hunter's Diary
Director of Photography
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
Only on Mondays
Director of Photography
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
Alone on the Pacific
Director of Photography
Kenichi Horie is determined to challenge his family, the law and the nature crossing the Pacific to America in a small sailboat. Despite his careful planning many unforeseen events will test his determination.
The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart
Cinematography
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
Children of Izu
Director of Photography
Quick Draw Joe
Director of Photography
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 armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.
Jungle Block
Director of Photography
A young doctor falls into a despair of developments. He plans to revenge the disgrace inflicted upon his sister, whose engagement was broken as a result.
The Day of Youth
Director of Photography
At Tokyo Gakuen University, Takema, son of Tatsunosuke, chief of the Waku gang, is a freshman who wishes to prepare himself for a better life away from gang activities despite the wishes of his father who wants him to assist strengthen the gang against the Kawano group. Takema's classmate, Akiko, is the daughter of Eiko who operates a restaurant, and through her he obtains a lodging in the house of Shiu, a dancing mistress. The students enjoy their life, but most have their troubles. Sakamoto works as a laborer on the docks to help pay for his schooling, and Akiko worries over the relationship between her mother and Sakurai, a corrupt politician, suspected to be involved in graft over jet aircraft.
Intimidation
Director of Photography
Koreyoshi Kurahara’s ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation (Aru kyouhaku) is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
The Girls and the Students
Director of Photography
A Secret Rendezvous
Director of Photography
After witnessing a murder, a married woman and a student agree not to meet and see each other out of fear of exposing their affair.
Woman from the Sea
Director of Photography
While in vacation in a sea side house, a young man fall in love with a beautiful woman who pretends to live by herself in the sea. The fishermen of a nearby village think she is a monster, the female of a shark killed many years before, responsible for many disappearances.
Saijo katagi
Director of Photography
Set in an old merchant house in Kyoto, the film traces the passing of an era through the story of a parent and child.
Crimson Wings
Cinematography
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...
The Man Who Wagers Tomorrow
Cinematography
Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his relative Morihiko. He said he forgot the winning lottery ticket of 2 million yen at the hotel, so he wants Daishiro to go and pick it up. Morihiko used the hotel for secret meetings, so he said he couldn't go there himself because he was afraid it would become public. When Daishiro entered the hotel, the Yakuza, who learned about the lottery from the newspaper, threaten the hotel maid Noriko, and want to rob her. Daishiro helps Noriko and safely picks up the lottery, but a message arrives from his relative Seikichi from Osaka. His missing son Kaoru is said to be a boxer in Osaka. "My son... He has the blood of a boxer in him..." Daishiro is heading to Osaka in a hurry...
The Boy Who Came Back
Director of Photography
Nobuo is a hot-headed hoodlum fresh out of reform school who struggles to make a clean break with his tearaway past.
The Seasons of Love
Director of Photography
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
Temptation
Director of Photography
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.