Akio Yokoyama

About Her Brother (2010)

Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro's impending death marks ...

Adrift in Tokyo (2007)

A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo. ...

Into the Faraway Sky (2007)

A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructi ...

Jusei: Last Drop of Blood (2003)

After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang wa ...

As the River Flows (2000)

2000 live-action Japanese film. ...

After Life (1999)

On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory ...

Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland (1996)

Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the ...

Burai-Heiya (1995)

Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass (1995)

A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series. ...

Gensen-Kan Inn (1993)

An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the ...

Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case (1991)

A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are bei ...

Yamada baba ni hanataba o (1990)

Yamada is the old mistress of a prestigious all-girl high school, who finds a natural enemy in Kamizaki, an outgoing first-year student. ...

April Fish (1986)

A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas. ...

The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (1985)

A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams o ...

Headphone Lullaby (1983)

The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students. ...

The Ballad of Narayama (1983)

In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. Bu ...

The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S (1982)

Youth suspense movie. ...

Sekushî purin: Kuse ni narisô (1981)

Nikkatsu Roman Porno ...

Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima (1980)

Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel. ...

An Ocean to Cross (1980)

Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin. ...

Nihon Meisaku Kaidan Gekijō: Kaidan Ōshū Adachigahara (1979)

Fleeing the Ōnin War, Tomone and her daughter Shiori are saved by Ukyō Fujiki. While taking shelter in a house, they are attacked by a greedy servant, Shichibee, but Shiori defends her mother, injuring him. A year later, Tomone and Ukyō reunite and fall ...

Ame no meguri ai (1977)

Japanese drama film. ...

The Bullet Train (1975)

A Japanese bullet train is threatened with a bomb that will explode automatically if the train slows below 80 km/h, unless a ransom is paid. Police race to find the bombers so the train crew can learn how to defuse the bomb. ...