Isao Yamagata Movies

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.

Romantic comedy.

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...

When Kanbe Nagakichi has his turf taken over by Ano-Toku, the father-in-law of his sworn brother Kira Nikichi sets in motion one of the most violent...

An all-star cast highlights this Jidai-Geki classic. Set in the samurai era, this is the tale of period Yakuza. One of the real classics in this...

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

Utaemon Ichikawa plays the role of Hikoshiro Navate, who has a strong sense of justice and opposes power and tyranny with his will and spirit.

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music...

Hibari Misora plays Yoshiko, the popular daughter of a fish market owner. After discovering that she was adopted, she sets out to help her biological...

Koji Himuro is the wandering gambler. His brother and his girlfriend were both murdered because he was determined to expose a gambling cheat. As a...

Tasuke stumbles across Kokichi, a distraught man whom having lost his fiancee to Lord Kawakatsu is ready to commit suicide. Tasuke learns that...

In the fourth film of series, Secret Assignment, Raizo again plays the Jiro Shiina. This time he's out to discover who is spying for the British in...

In this film in the long running series, Tange Sazen and his friends are asked to guard a dragon-shaped incense burner that holds the key to hidden...

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

Jidaigeki film from 1960

An exciting historical drama that dynamically depicts the life of Minamoto no Yoshitsune from the period of his stay on Mount Kurama to his...