Isao Yamagata Movies

A suspense work based on the "Miyagi Incident," an attempted coup d'etat led by some officers working for the Ministry of the Defense and the General...

The story opens in October of 1624 when the newly appointed Shogun Iemitsu visits the famed Kan-ei temple. On his way the procession is disrupted...

Japanese crime film

This moving movie depicts the preciousness of life through the interaction between a man with a dark past and a boy battling illness.

A moving episode in which a war criminal in the Philippines, having faced death, pleads earnestly while trembling with fear.

A Golden Age drama depicting the exploits of passionate patriot Uotaro Toge in the midst of a mysterious standoff over the Secret Book of Aoi, which...

Tange Sazen interferes with an evil plot against the Iga Yagyu family.

A film adaptation of Rikuo Honjo's novel "Ishikari River".

Romantic melodrama

The sole survivor of a shipwreck pursues the whereabouts of his friends’ missing family members in Edo.

On a passenger ship to Japan, the journalist Kawase encounters a man who claims to be a Filipino, but Kawase believes he is a murder suspect who fled...

Writer Jippensha Ikku hears Tsutaya Juzaburo, a wholesaler of picture books, mutter on his deathbed, "Where has Sharaku gone?" He begins to figure...

A passionate young man who risks his life for love and judo and the innocent young woman who adores him face off against an evil judoka at...

Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries to save the good people of the Kiso Valley, he...

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from...

The love story of an aspiring architect and a charcoal-making daughter, who discover that they are actually brother and sister.

Umon’s services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as...

Edo, 1703. Young Sugino, one of the 47 rōnin seeking revenge against lord Kira, who caused that his master, Asano of Ako, committed seppuku,...