Isao Yamagata Movies

Magistrate Ooka-Echizen faces a crime over a pillbox.

A detective is charged with investigating a bank corruption scandal.

This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

Playhouse employees Okimi and Otoshi become involved in an undercover officer’s investigation of a gang when they accidentally walk in on a...

Adaptation of the novel by Kan Shimozawa.

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

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

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Japanese crime film

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

Young lord investigates the mysterious death that takes place in the underworld.

Hashizo Okawa in the form of a courageous firefighter who confronts unscrupulous traders who make a profit even at the cost of human lives. A fireman...

Best friends Gentaro and Sanpei become fateful enemies when Sanpei steals a secret document revealing the identity of the chosen successor to the...

Christ in Bronze is a 1955 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Minoru Shibuya. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.

In this tale of bravery and honor among the roving gamblers of old Japan, the heroic Jirocho, Boss of the Tokaido is called upon to help a young...

A man’s wife dies in a swamp. Her ghost returns to haunt him.

The serial killing of a samurai each night by strangulation at various temples confounds investigators and brings a chill to the residents of Edo....

The supply of sea bream to the fish market has decreased, and the price has increased to a whopping 1 ryo, and unable to face his customers openly...