Reizaburo Yamamoto Movies

Doctor Sanada treats gangster Matsunaga after he is wounded in a gunfight, and discovers that he is suffering from tuberculosis. Sanada tries to convi...

On his release from prison a young yakuza, along with his brother, decides to turn his back on criminal life instead of taking over the position of hi...

Kanji is a poor peasant widower who struggles to earn a living for his daughter and himself and to pay off his father-in-law's debts.

Jirokichi the Rat is wanted in Edo for robbing the mansions of the rich. While on the run, he falls for Osen, a girl who has been sold to a brothel by...

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro),a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy...

A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. Desperate to right the wrong, he goes underc...

A village struggles to survive when the nearby lake becomes barren of fish.

A bittersweet love story between yakuza Hiroshi and a married woman Reiko.

A gangster gets released from prison and has to cope with the recent shifts of power between the gangs, while taking care of a thrill-seeking young wo...

The conclusion of the story of famed swordsman, Sasaki Kojiro. After surviving a series of daring adventures, Kojiro seems to have finally discovered...

A carpenter, Shigetsugu, learns a lesson of love and humanity from five orphaned children and an affectionate woman named Oritsu. It's a winning comb...

In old Edo, Kakunojo (Chiezo),a dandy about town, falls in love with Oichi (Isuzu Yamada),whose merchant family is much beyond Kakunojo's status. He...

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just...

The Opium War is a 1943 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Masahiro Makino. "Ahen senso" in Japan refers to the First Opium War. The story of...

Tomotaka Tasaka's A Pebble by the Wayside (Robo no Ishi),made in 1938 and taken from a Yuzo Yamamoto novel, takes place around 1902, was about a youn...

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the mai...

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 group of Japanese soldiers land in Chinese territory. They advance on a village ; one soldier, Norimoto, is killed in the attack, but the village is...

Japanese historical film.