Ren Yamamoto Movies

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

A ghost man with his face hidden entirely by bandages is killing beautiful nude models. Detective Kindaichi investigates.

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

The fifth film in the Toho Diamond series, following "The Hateful Thing." Based on the true story of "Zoo Story" by author Fukuda Saburo. During the...

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

This Japanese action-adventure is set in the 17th century when all forms of swordplay were banned. One fighter, an excellent swordsman believes the...

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

The life of a urban planning official and that of an old fellow student, now project developer, are turned upside down by a chance encounter with a...

An Ishiro Honda film.

1962 Japanese movie

The son of a gang leader boss is kidnapped by someone and demands the disbandment of the gang. A group of five mean high school girls who form a...

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.

Period romantic drama.

When a group of young geologists declares a mountainside marked for residential development unstable, they are met with scorn on two fronts. On one...

1961 Japanese movie

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

After a gang killing forces him to flee abroad, ex-yakuza Ryūji returns to Yokohama a year later to find his lover’s sister’s...