Zenji Yamada Movies

1962 Japanese movie

Akira, a young, jazz-obsessed drifter, returns to his squat, a ruined church, and finds Gill, a wounded African-American GI, on the run after the...

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

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...

Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking,...

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

The moment he's released from prison, the honorable gangster Miyamoto recovers the stolen diamonds he had stashed before getting pinched. When he...

A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job...

When Yakuza decides to take avenge his brother, the war shall begin.

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

A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.

After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a...

After ten years of study in the US, Nonomura Kensuke returns to Japan to be an English teacher at a local high school. Kensuke's nontraditional...

The famous showdown at Kagiya corner has been told many times, but never before with the realism and intensity of this version scripted by Kurosawa...

1962 Japanese movie

The story of male friendship unfolding during a boxing match between the navigator, who took responsibility for the accident and went ashore from the...