Isao Yamagata Movies

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

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.

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.

A young girl, Okimi, falls in love with Kiritaro, a handsome thief disguised as a wealthy young master.

Master swordsman and loyal vassal Saotome Mondonosuke goes on a mission to find a missing princess.

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war...

Saotome, a sword master and guard of the Shogunate, pursues the mystery of a deadly aerial weapon that is responsible for the multiple deaths in town.

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...

Romantic melodrama

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

Thriller drama by Kon Ichikawa

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two...

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own...

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

When Katsukawa, a low ranking vassal, learns that his greedy superior, Tatewaki, has hatched a plan to expand his territory, he and his comrades...

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it...

When a former artisan is tricked into putting his sister up as collateral for a loan by a gangster boss in a crooked gambling casino it sets in...

Raizô Ichikawa reprises his role as the restaurant-cook-turned-contract-killer in this sequel to Kazuo Mori's stylish 1967 thriller A Certain...