Zenji Yamada Movies

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

Shoichi Kokubun is a roughneck street musician, who has a brother that is determined to propel him into stardom. In attempt to catch the attention of...

A woman falls in love with her sister's fiancé.

Fumiko, mother of two and wife to an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful...

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always...

A film from Nikkatsu's "moodo akushon" (mood/action) subgenre.

A sequel to Detective Bureau 2-3: Go To Hell Bastards!

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking.

A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

A young woman, who must support her father as a middle-aged man's mistress, finds herself falling in love with a student closer to her age.

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the...

The eldest daughter of a rural family Mon returns home from Tokyo pregnant after an affair with a college student Kobata, which causes a scandal that...

A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle...

In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her...

1958 Japanese movie

Mataemon Araki, a renowned swordsman, helps a young man find vengeance.

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...

The bustling Ikebukuro area was under the control of the Hanamura Kogyo yakuza gang, and there was no end to the violence. The tramp Bin Tsuzuki...

Mourning the death of her boyfriend, Yukiko wanders aimlessly from one city to another. During her mourning, she becomes addicted to gambling. One...

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to...