Yosuke Yamashita

Yosuke Yamashita

Nascimento : 1942-02-26, Tokyo Prefecture, Japan

História

Jazz pianist, composer, essayist and writer.

Perfil

Yosuke Yamashita

Filmes

Before The Leaves Fall
Original Music Composer
An elderly woman sets out to see in person a painting by a famous artist.She believes she was the inspiration for the painting.
Vengeance for Sale
Original Music Composer
In a world where vendettas are officially sanctioned, the people sometimes needed help in carrying out their vengeance. Sanada Hiroyuki stars as Sukeroku the Helper, a ‘cool and rambling yakuza’ that has made a business out of helping victims carry out their revenge. When he returns to his hometown to pay a visit to his mother’s grave he meets a deadly ronin who carries a secret which eventually leads him into a vendetta of his own.
Dr. Fígado
Original Music Composer
Na véspera da rendição japonesa, em 1945, Akagi, o médico local de uma povoação costeira de uma das ilhas japonesas, decide tomar uma posição firme para preservar a sua integridade profissional. Está preocupado com o crescente número de casos de hepatite e junta-se aos seus antigos companheiros, um monge dissoluto e um cirurgião niilista viciado em morfina, todos à margem da sociedade militar japonesa. Sonoko, uma rapariga selvagem, adere ao grupo como enfermeira. Tornou-se responsável pelos irmãos desde a morte dos pais e, por vezes, ganha dinheiro como prostituta. Mas ao trabalhar com Akagi o seu destino muda: apaixona-se pelo estranho médico e quer passar com ele o resto da sua vida.
The Girl of Silence
Original Music Composer
14 year old Nakamura is sexually abused by her stepfather. She invents a friend who is coming to her rescue when she really needs it.
Take the X Train
Music
Ishihara Toru is an everyday guy with an on-and-off girlfriend and a position working for a train buff. Things become complicated when a ghostly vehicle dubbed the X Train begins to ride the rails, destroying everything in its path. Somehow, it seems that Toru is connected with the X Train by a strange power, which draws the attention of some very dangerous and power hungry people who would wield it for their own...
Dixieland Daimyo
Original Music Composer
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Dixieland Daimyo
Special Guest
Shipwrecked African-American slaves arrive in the midst of Bakumatsu-era Japan; they soon carve out a niche in the market with their musical talents.
Honeymoon
Original Music Composer
Tetsuaki's struggling to write a novel while his mother fades; Mitsuko's engagement has been forced upon her unwillingly; the two individuals run away to share their grief.
Weekend Shuffle
Original Music Composer
First mainstream film directed by Genji Nakamura, based on Yasutaka Tsutsui's 1974 short story of the same title.
Kidnapping Blues
Original Music Composer
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
Kidnapping Blues
Pianist
A man and a little girl meet in a bicycle parking in Tokyo. The little girl says she wants to watch the sea, and their travel begins. The man does not intend to be a kidnapper – he asks the girl to phone her mother and tell her she's with him. During their trip they meet various people, but they always must continue on, lest the man be arrested.
PIANO ON FIRE
Yosuke Yamashita
Famed Japanese jazz pianist Yosuke Yamashita expresses his burning passion for music by setting his piano on fire. "I think though it is just a ten minute of performance, it holds an essence of artistic expression because he risked his life and career and took a serious approach to a project which is very ephemeral and unperfectible" (Ken Awazu).
O Êxtase dos Anjos
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
O Êxtase dos Anjos
Music
A militant revolutionary group is torn apart by betrayal as its members descend into paranoia and sexual decadence.
Naked Bullet
Music
A girl becomes a pawn in the game between two rival gangs gangster.
Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands
Original Music Composer
Um detetive particular é contratado para encontrar uma mulher que aparentemente foi assassinada durante um filme de mortes reais. Mas acontece que ela não está morta, e eles começam um caso tórrido que o fará questionar sua percepção da realidade.