Yōko Yamamoto

With all the unrest and uncertainty in the world today, now feels as good a time as any for a movie portraying good will and love between people from opposing countries. The film is a love story set in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture on the Japanese island of Shikoku against the historical backdrop of the Russo-Japanese War. The movie is centered around the romance between a Russian officer, a war prisoner in Matsuyama, and a Japanese nurse who find themselves on opposing sides of the war. It is a kind of "Romeo and Juliet story of the Russo-Japanese War".

100人斬りの異名を持つ万次は、わなによって妹を失い、謎の老人に永遠の命を与えられる。死ぬことのできない無限の体となった今、斬られた傷は自然に治るが、剣術の腕は落ちていた。ある日、孤独な万次の前にあだ討ちを頼みたいという少女・浅野凛が現れる。彼女の願いを聞き入れた万次は、凛と共に剣客集団・逸刀流の首領である天津影久の命を狙う。

故今村昌平監督の息子「世界で一番美しい夜」の天願大介監督が、佐藤友哉の同名小説を、主演の浅丘ルリ子はじめ、日本映画を代表するベテラン女優陣を招いて、姥捨山伝説をテーマに映画化したアクション・ドラマ。70歳になると老人を姥捨てする風習が残る山間部を舞台に、捨てられた老婆たちが困難な状況に立ち向かっていく姿を描く。 極寒の山村で70歳を迎えた斎藤カユ（浅丘ルリ子）は村のおきてに従い、うば捨ての場所であるお参り場へと向かう。力尽きて倒れたカユが目覚めると、カユよりも前にお参り場へ捨てられた老女たちが目の前にいた。彼女たちは“デンデラ”という共同体を作り、自分たちを捨てた村人に復讐（ふくしゅう）するため老婆（ろうば）が集まるのを待っていたのだった。

金を満載した御用船が、佐渡を出航した矢先に何者かに襲われる。事件の噂は江戸中に広まり、金相場の値上がりでひともうけを考える庶民が金座へ押し寄せる騒ぎに発展。一方、主水ら仕事人のもとに、金座を預かる後藤家の女当主・千勢が現われ、死んだ船員たちの仇討ちを依頼する。敵の正体も数も判らない依頼に主水らは躊躇するが、仕事人のひとり、おむらだけは仕事を引き受ける。しかし地獄組と名乗る謎の集団に襲われる。

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.

バクチ好きの父親、テツに代わり自宅のホルモン屋を切り盛りしている逞しい大阪の女子小学生の竹本チエ。そんなチエは時々テツと別居中の母ヨシ江と父に秘密で会っており縁日での休みを満喫するが、その現場をテツに見られてしまい…。

東京で暮らしている青年・寺田辰弥は、自分を探していた母方の祖父・井川丑松が目の前で変死したことを機に、生まれ故郷の八つ墓村を訪れる。そこは戦国時代、村人たちによって8人の落ち武者が惨殺されたという忌まわしい歴史をもつ土地だった。帰郷した辰弥の周りでは次々と奇怪な殺人事件が起こり…。 横溝正史の同名ミステリー小説を、巨匠・野村芳太郎監督が映画化。渥美清演じる名探偵・金田一耕助が事件の謎を解き明かす。

Japanese crime film.

Japanese crime film.

　大富豪の銀行家一族を中心に、政財界にまたがる富と権力をめぐる人間の野望と愛憎を描く社会派ドラマ。山崎豊子の同名小説を山本薩夫監督が映画化した超大作。阪神銀行の頭取・万俵大介。関西財界にその名をとどろかせる万俵一族は、子息を次々と政財界の大物と結婚させ、その勢力を広げ、磐石なものとしていた。そうした工作は、華族出身の世間知らずな妻・寧子ではなく、永らく家庭教師兼執事を務める高須相子の手腕によっていた。だが、一族の歯車は徐々に狂い始める……。

華やかな装いと紫煙の中に咲き乱れる銀座の夜の花園。さみしく閉じる店、華やかに開店する店がある中で、久美の経営するクラブ“葵”は、彼女の魅力で今日もにぎわっている。二年前、女の意地で愛しながら別れた男・修平のことなど忘れた久美は、今は町工場の経営者で、妻子ある花井という男を愛していたし、彼女の店では腹違いではあるが妹の淳子も働いていて、平穏な日々を送っていた。そんなある日、久美はチーフバーテンの坂本から、淳子が愛している男と一緒に暮らしていることを知らされた。まだまだ子供だと思っていた妹に恋人がいると知った久美は早速淳子のアパートを訪れたが、そこには運命のいたずらか、二年前に別れた修平の姿があった…。

A 1971 crime film

A real all-star cast turns out for this modern yakuza yarn.

Japanese crime film

Nomi-gumi, who plans to control Tama City, has begun to hurt Takase-gumi. Muraki, an executive, was entrusted with the destruction, but he was a brother of Takase-gumi's substitute, Tsukada. Muraki, who missed Tsukada and the old days at Tsukada's wife Shizue's shop, took the future of turning to the enemy painfully.

Japanese crime film

A college student comes to a wealthy family as a tutor for their son, an elementary school student, he cheerfully encourages his student, captivates him with the spirit of sports and falls in love with the daughter of the owner of the house. A masterpiece of youth drama starring the eternal idol Kazuo Funaki.

After being sexually assaulted on a rooftop, seventeen year old Poppo meets a mysterious boy, and swap their traumas and fears, with fatal consequences.

In a high school, two men are fighting over a beautiful female teacher who has been assigned as an English teacher.

Romance about student-nurse interns.

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.

Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji) and aspiring boxer Saburô (Jirô Okazaki), the trio escalate their mob retaliation to all-out turf war where no one will stop until one faction emerges victorious.

南洋のオベリスク島にやってきた探検隊は、その地でガッパという怪獣の子供を発見した。彼らは研究のため、子ガッパを日本に連れ帰る。そして子供を奪われた親ガッパたちが、子供のテレパシーをたどり日本に上陸してくる。防衛軍はただちにこれを迎撃するが、ガッパは熱線を吐いて街を壊滅状態に追い込んでいく……。

During the 1880's a young swordsman, Saotome Gengo, on his way to Tokyo stops at an inn in a small town. But he does not know that his prowess has already attracted envious attention and that Senzo, the boss of the local gang, plans to have him killed. Seiji, the disowned son of the innkeeper, has run up a big gambling bill and, to settle it, the hoodlums decide to kill him. He is saved, however, by Hanako, star of the dancing troupe also staying at the inn. Gengo meets Hanako and learns that the troupe cannot open their show because the local police corruptly demand too much of the receipts. After another fight, Gengo sees the police-chief on behalf of the troupe, but is refused. So he suspects that the police and the hoodlums are implicated with each other. There seems no way to open the show until they hear that the governor is coming to the town for a local banquet. They appeal to him and he promises to investigate. It is decided that a duel will settle the matter...

A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.

森村桂の青春小説を吉永小百合主演で映画化。就職活動中の娘が、社会と現実の壁にぶつかりながらもたくましく成長していく姿を描く。

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Namida ni naritai" by Teruhiko Saigo.

A young lawyer looking for a true culprit to save his innocent friend. But behind the case is the father of a woman he loves.

Yukiko is on her way to meet Boss Gunji. Judging by her appearance, no one would suspect that this beautiful young woman, sitting quietly in a suburban train, is the only woman able to beat the best professional players in Japan; or that she is wearing the tattoo of the man that loved her and died for her...

An eroticized adaptation of Murasaki Shikibu's classic novel, written over 1000 years ago. Genji, the son of the emperor, has gained renown among the nobility of Kyoto for his charm and good looks, yet he cannot stop himself from pursuing the one object of desire he must never obtain: his father's young and beautiful bride. Following the tragic consequences of his obsession, Genji wanders from one affair to another, always seeking some sort of completion to his life.

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.

ある夜、町を牛耳る五光会の五人のボスのうち一人が射殺された。現場にはスペードのエースのカード。慌てた残りの四人は至急対策を協議し、殺し屋プロダクションに早速護衛の殺し屋を注文した。というのも、彼らは終戦のどさくさに紛れて当時の上司であった須藤氏を殺し、莫大な物資を横領して町を支配していた。その須藤の息子である丈太郎の通り名がスペードのジョーであり、彼から五光会のそれぞれの元に殺す順番として一から五までの数字が書かれたカードが送られてきていたのだった。こうしてボスらの護衛のため、プロダクションの厳重なテストをくぐり抜けた殺し屋たちが一同に集められた。爆薬入りのソロバンを扱う者、下駄に手裏剣を仕込んだ者…などなど、自分の仕事にこだわりをもつ個性的な殺し屋たちが今、ジョーを探して始末するべく一斉に町に繰り出した。

Japanese comedy film.

A war veteran clashes with a mob boss in this crime saga. When Ryuji returns from the war, he finds himself torn by the death of an old friend - the son of crime kingpin Kiyomiya. A death Ryuji feels responsible for.

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...

A hot-shot detective in Yokohama kills a witness during a drug investigation. He flees to the countryside and evades his past for several years, only to return to find the woman he loved married to his former partner. He searches for answers to his troubled past, knowing that his inevitable doomed fate is more or less sealed.