Isao Yamagata Movies

1960 Toei film.

After marrying off one daughter, a widowed father struggles with loneliness and the changing lives of his children. While his younger daughter falls...

Christian converts face persecution in the feudal society of 17th century Japan.

From an original story by Shibata Renzaburo, the novelist who created such classics as: the "Nemuri Kyoshiro" series (Son of the Black Mass),...

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...

Three young yakuza, Fujitaro, Matsugoro and Kanjuro, travel the country fighting evil.

The story of five easygoing Yakuza who come together to save the live of a young innocent girl, Oichi, from an evil vassal.

Ryujin Misaki, located at the edge of the Genkai Sea, is known as an isolation ward for leprosy patients. When Saotome, a sword master and guard of...

The adventures of Aoi Shingo continue. Shingo is finally given permission to officially meet his father, the Shogun. However, his journey is...

A group of men living a low life in Edo help each other to make the best out of their lives.

In a mountain village, Heita, a translator's son, is a gifted boy but is shunned by the villagers. He can imitate birds' cry and befriends another...

As it turns out, the evil hand of drugs has reached the inner palace of the Shogunate. It was thought that the opium was coming from Nagasaki, but it...

Because of trickery, the Jinya Group has only seven days to complete a mountain road project or it will forfeit a major dam construction job to the...

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

A swordsman must foil a minister's sinister plan to assassinate the shogun.

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

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

The year is 1805. Napoleon ruled Europe. Ienari is the 11th Tokugawa Shogun. An incident, which was an open official secret, took place on the...