Gaku Yamamoto Movies

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

Zatoichi makes friends with a dangerous chess player, while fending off angry yakuza and bloodthirsty relatives out for revenge, and trying to save a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Shintarō Katsu

Lonely after the death of her husband, whom she nursed for years, Tae decides to find a new life partner. Her family and friends try to dissuade her.

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Cast: Kazuko Yoshiyuki

10-year-old Sota lives with his grandfather and a dog named Chibi in a small snowy village. They live in such a poverty that Sota cannot even afford...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shintaro Morimoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Misato Fukuen

A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are then forced into a...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Ayako Wakao

Takuma knows that his life is shorter than the others and he feels that his demise is getting near. He chose to stay away from the girl that he loves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mao Inoue

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jiro Tamiya

Japanese film based on the life of sculptor Eikichi Takahashi, who died as a soldier on Guadalcanal.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jun Etoh

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

A female career banker shatters the glass ceiling of a mega bank by disclosing its shady business to light. Tamaki, the Gold Woman, has worked her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koyuki

In the past, a woman was raped by her brother-in-law. Keeping this dark secret, she lives a seemingly happy life with her husband and son, but the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Etsuko Ichihara

The Eternal Founntain was broadcast as the Saturday Drama Special on NHK. Laywer Akio Yamauchi takes over the court-appointed attorney for Yoji...

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Cast: Akira Terao

Otama, daughter of a poor candy vendor, becomes the mistress of a man whom she believes to be a widower and owner of a prosperous dry goods store....

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Cast: Ayako Wakao

Film distributed by ATG.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Ogawa

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Hayami Teruya is a dedicated salaryman who does a workman like job as the chief editor for a magazine. He has personal charm, get along with both the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yo Oizumi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Yakusho

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Cast: Shintarō Katsu

In 1934 (Showa 9), Maj. Gen. Yamamoto Isoroku was ordered to be the chief representative of the preliminary negotiations for the Disarmament...

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Cast: Shingo Katori

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kazuki Takeuti

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Ikki Sawamura

Second part of an epic drama of war and its effects upon human beings, follows the fortunes of the Godai family from 1935 through Japan's invasion of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

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Cast: Ryō Ikebe

A brother and sister learn their biological grandfather was a kamikaze pilot who died during World War II. During their research into his life, they...

Genre: War

Cast: Junichi Okada

The upstart Godai family conglomerate plans to strengthen ties with the hardliners in the Kwantung Army as they plan military expansion into...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Osamu Takizawa

Set at the end of the feudal period. A woman spends most of her early life in prison, incarcerated by political opponents of her father. When she is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

Based on a story written by actress and author Hideko Takamine. Kimizuru Kawamoto is a popular geisha in Shitaya, Tokyo in 1926. Kimizuru is pregnant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Reiko Ōhara