Yoji Yamada Movies

Seibei Iguchi leads a difficult life as a low ranking samurai at the turn of the nineteenth century. A widower with a meager income, Seibei struggles...

A look at the relationship between a young blind samurai and his wife, who will make a sacrifice in order to defend her husband's honor.

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard.

A road trip through Louisiana transforms three strangers who were originally brought together by their respective feelings of loneliness.

The story centers on a man who loves movies, having once worked at movie studio in pursuit of his dreams, surrounded by great directors and famous...

When cabaret singer Lily writes Toraya about her illness, Tora-san rushes to Okinawa to be by her side.

Police investigators investigate the link between a serial killer's machinations and a teenage boy who committed suicide.

Based on the long running manga of the same name by Sadao Shouji.

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning to his ex-wife and his former life. If she puts a...

Set in Tokyo in 1940, the peaceful life of the Nogami Family suddenly changes when the father, Shigeru, is arrested and accused of being a Communist....

Tora-san, an itinerant peddler who is thrown out of his father's house twenty years before but reconnects with his aunt, uncle and sister Sakura....

Nobuko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son...

Following the death of the unmarried and childless Taki, Takeshi, a young relative of hers, discovers several pages of closely written lines in which...

Akio Kanzaki’s job as head of human resources is wearing his nerves thinner and thinner. To make matters worse, he’s on the brink of...

Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his...

Kuruma Torajiro is discovered looking around Kyoto for someone special to him.

A husband and wife have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies...

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their grown children, only to find them preoccupied and self-involved.

Tetsuo is a young man living in Tokyo, who falls in love with a deaf-mute factory girl. He has always felt jealous of his college-educated brother,...

Tora-san arrives in Shibamata on Mitsuo's first day of school only to find that on his account, Mitsuo was embarrassed. After a fight with his...