Ko Yamamuro

Birth : 1907-12-17, Kochi Prefecture, Japan

Movies

鬼姫競艶録
An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs songs and dances throughout the film until the big decisive battle.
旗本退屈男 謎の怪人屋敷
犬神家の謎 悪魔は踊る
Early adaptation of the book "The Inugami Clan", featuring the detective Kōsuke Kindaichi.
爆笑天国 とんち教室
Shigemori Goes To Tokyo
Movie version of NHK renzoku drama "Tokyo Romance"
続南国太平記 薩南の嵐
南国太平記
Kaiketsu kuro zukin
First film of the The Black Hooded Man series.
One-Eyed Detective
Saburo Hirota
Fifth delivery in the Tarao Bannai series, following the "master detective with seven faces" who uses his signature disguise to solve crimes with a double-barreled pistol.
Merciless Blade Part 2
The second film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Merciless Blade
The first film in the 1953 trilogy based on the long novel series The Great Bodhisattva Pass.
Geisha Waltz
1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe.
大当り黄金狂時代 
のど自慢三羽烏
歌う野球小僧
新遊侠伝
Endless Passion
Thug
Ghost Cat of Nabeshima
Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates at first, since he knows the board has a mysterious legend surrounding it; it's believed that for every game played on the board, one death is required.
Ningen moyo
A love triangle among a girl, her poor boyfriend, and a rich company president.
The Age of Beginnings
Writer Nemoto (as Ko Yamamuro)
A newly hired daily newspaper writer covering the society beat receives an assignment to cover Tokyo at night by walking and observing it. He gets into the right frame of mind by dressing the part as a vagrant with not a penny to his name. He gets into trouble ending up at the police station slammer overnight. He has no material to write about and, with his assignment unfulfilled, faces a cross editor.
Three Women of the North
The story of an airport and its air traffic control crew in a remote and northern Japanese town. Three of the air traffic controllers are female with one of them working with her dead fiancé's sister. The engaged man had gone to war and never returned.
Sanshiro Sugata Part Two
In this government-suggested sequel, Sugata again grows as a judo master, and demonstrates his (and by extension, all Japanese) superiority to the foreign warrior.
Sanshiro Sugata
Torakichi
The story of Sanshiro, a strong stubborn youth, who travels into the city in order to learn Jujutsu. However, upon his arrival he discovers a new form of self-defence: Judo. The main character is based on Shiro Saigo, a legendary judoka.
音楽大進軍
Assistant director
A 1943 film.
Iemitsu and Hikoza
Date Masamune
A sentimental tale of the filial love between shogun Iemitsu (matinee idol Hasegawa) and his loyal old retainer Hikoza (comedian Roppa, playing somewhat against type).
Horse
Ine Onoda, the eldest daughter of a poor family of farmers, raises a colt from birth and comes to love the horse dearly. When the horse is grown, the government orders it auctioned and sold to the army. Ine struggles to prevent the sale.
Shanghai Landing Party
This film attempts to reconstruct the tension of the Battle of Shanghai through an episode in an understated way, introducting its story in a documentary mode. In the film story, Japan's marine regiment protects Japanese residents and Chinese refugees-women and young children-from rampant street fighting, Shanhai Rikusentai unsparingly uses its first eight minutes for an official-mannered self-justification of the war. From the viewpoint of explaining Japan's military operation,the narration refers to the city s spatial division in sync with maps on screen.
The Naked Town
A 1937 Japanese language film directed by Tomu Uchida, starring Ryo Akaboshi, Mitsuru Date and Hisao Furutani.
Chuji's Travel Diary: The Chuji Patrol Episode
The Japanese equivalent of penny dreadfuls glorifying Jesse James, A Diary of Chuji’s Travels gives a unique gloss to the tale of Chuji Kunisada, the legendary bakuto (or gambler, the precursors to modern-day yakuza). One of the two remaining segments of Ito’s original four-hour trilogy, it depicts Chuji’s attempt to save the geisha Oshina, a rebellion against the rigid social structure of Edo Japan. With socialist overtones, it’s a passionate artifact of early Japanese film.