Hatsuo Yamaya

Sunday Horror Series Best Selection 3 (2024)

Japanese horror anthology of 4 chilling tales. ...

The Limit of Sleeping Beauty (2017)

Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While pretending to be hypnotised on the stage, Aki finds the boundary between reality and illusion becoming increasingly vague. For Aki, the only beautiful memory she ...

Aoi Shushi wa Taiyou no Naka ni Aru (2015)

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan is to house the slum dwellers in cultural housing, complete with gas and running water. Kenji, a construc ...

Caesium and the Girl (2015)

Mimi-chan is a 17-year-old high school student and she lives with her parents in Asagaya, Tokyo. While walking home from school, Mimi-chan is hit by a lightning and meets Raijin Ra San (God of Lightning). Through Raijin Ra San, she also meets 7 other Gods. ...

A Boy Called H (2013)

Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh, nicknamed "H". His father, Morio runs a tailor shop. With the onset of World War II, their family must endure difficult times. Nevertheless, H is filled w ...

The Hovering Blade (2009)

Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police. ...

Tales of the Bizarre: 2009 Spring Special (2009)

Dororo (2007)

Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge the death of her parents. ...

The Night of Taneyamagahara (2006)

Four farmers spend the night at a campfire. Three of them talk about work, nature and weather, while one of them has dreams about buying his own plot. ...

Who's Camus Anyway? (2005)

A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witty ensemble cast begins to live the film, including murder, deception and true love. ...

Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case (2004)

A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear. ...

Oedipus Rex (2002)

Oedipus, a prince of Corinth, was prophesied to "kill his father and marry his mother." To avoid the fulfillment of this prophecy, he went on a wandering journey, drove off the monstrous Sphinx in the kingdom of Thebai, and became the king of Thebai. Oedip ...

The Boy Who Saw the Wind (2000)

Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon's power to complete the ultimate weapon and sends his troops to capture the boy. Amon, using his talents, manages to runs away with Maria, one of the People ...

Secret (1999)

A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his wife died, but her mind somehow got transfered into their daughter's body. ...

Dr. Akagi (1998)

At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war camp. ...

Looking for (1998)

Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to find him. ...

Kids Return (1996)

Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place. ...

Twinkle (1992)

Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at which a 'good' Japanese woman should marry, and he is in love with a young male college student. ...

Sosuke Loses His Lover (1992)

Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of a traveling acting troupe. ...

Showa Tetsufuden - Sea of Japan (1991)

A young yakuza member is doomed as he swings between two organizations in the Tohoku region, during the late Shōwa period. ...

Ready to Shoot (1990)

A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho. He quickly becomes aware that her life is in his hands when he learns she is hiding from the yakuza. ...

Hole in the Pants 4: Strawberries That Aren't Mushy (1990)

In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers there is a boy who lives next to a university women's dormitory and he checks them out constantly. He finds out about their relationship with men. He decides to forget about them and decides to date a c ...

The Chaser (1989)

The Gentlemen’s Alliance (1986)

Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another. ...

Impactual Performance (1986)

A female teacher falls in love with her student ...

House on Fire (1986)

In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his numerous mistresses and his work ...

Bakumatsu seishun graffiti: Ronin Sakamoto Ryoma (1986)

I Go to Tokyo (1985)

A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countryside. ...

Fireflies in the North (1984)

Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warden of Kabato Prison terrorizes convicts sentenced to forced labor to build the roads needed to open up the territory. ...

Choji Snack Bar (1983)

Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and serving the lively residents of his small hometown. ...

Tora-san's Song of Love (1983)

Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san's nephew) athletic event. Tora-san volunteers to take his place, but gets into an argument with his brother-in-law's boss and returns to the road. He meets ...

Amagi Pass (1983)

Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-girl) when he traveled through Amagi Pass. A mysterious murder took place afterwards, an Ozuka was held responsible. 40 years later, the boy, who became a prin ...

Village of Doom (1983)

Rejected by the military and frowned upon by his fellow villagers, a young man nicknamed 'Genius' falls into a series of dangerous love affairs during World War II. ...

The Longest Tunnel (1982)

After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait. While working on this project Akutsu becomes involved with Tae Makimura leading to his estrangement from his wife. ...

Gone Without Saying Goodbye! (1981)

This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing brother who witnessed the crimes of a political fixer. ...

There Was a War When I Was a Child (1981)

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War. ...

The First Catch (1980)

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi. ...

Drive for the Future (1980)

The Great Tale of the Great Tatami Progenitor (1980)

A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small room in a local boarding house, but he was unprepared for what life will throw at him. The room next to him boards a local gangster whose gang is a menace to ...

Four Seasons: Natsuko (1980)

A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of new experiences. ...

The Wicked (1980)

A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he loves throws him into a spiral of destruction. ...

May Love Be Restored (1980)

A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk. ...

Zigeunerweisen (1980)

A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through loose romantic triangles and face death in peculiar ways. ...

The Nineteen-Year-Old's Map (1979)

A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighborhood and keeping a journal of why he doesn't like them. Declaring himself a 'right-winger' and calling in bomb threats against the neighbors he doesn't like ...

Demon Pond (1979)

When a lone traveller stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in a whirlpool of myth, mystery, and magic: in a nearby pond reside spirits who hold the fate of the town's inhabitants, including lovers Akira and Yuri, in t ...

Super Gun Lady: Police Branch 82 (1979)

Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch." When an executive board member of a trading company is accused of being involved in a bribery, Mika is assigned to keep watch over him. A few nights later her target is ...

Dog of Fortune (1979)

From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With the loss of his master who held a secret to a weapons smuggling case and the corruptions of those who are involved, Goro's adventure unfolds. ...

No Grave for Us (1979)

A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble... ...

Female Teacher: Dirty Rumor (1979)

Shima Nishikata, a beautiful teacher of classical literature at a private high school, teaches during the day but wanders the streets at night seeking men — not for money, but because she fears she has inherited the licentious nature of her aunt who rais ...

Our Symphony (1979)

One summer day, Tokujiro, who works at an ironworks in the industrial area of ​​Kawasaki, joins a choir group in order to seduce the girls who have come to Kawasaki to sing Beethoven's Ninth . Aiming for the performance in December, Tokujiro undergoes ...

The Woman with Red Hair (1979)

Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Kenzo who takes her back to his run-down and cramped apartment in a not so good part of town. Claiming that she is running away from an abusive husband, she s ...

The Demon (1978)

When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their three young children, Kikuyo leaves the children with Sokichi - and his very surprised and angry wife Oume - and disappears. ...

Ore wa inaka no puresurī (1978)

Ballad of Orin (1977)

Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a life of hardship, abuse, and poverty while wandering the countryside, finding brief companionship with an army deserter, and struggling against a society that margin ...

Village of Eight Gravestones (1977)

The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries before by a band of samurai warriors. ...

Mount Hakkoda (1977)

Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the winter of 1902 to prepare for war with Russia. ...

Beauty's Exotic Dance: Torture! (1977)

A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual torture of two wives and a prostitute. Ito chronicles the sessions in journals, shares his pseudo-Sadean philosophy, and drives women mad with equal hell-bent int ...

Ecstasy of the Black Rose (1975)

After his leading actress becomes pregnant and wants to quit, Juzo, an adult film director, becomes obsessed with finding the woman whose moaning he captured secretly at a dentist's office to star in the film instead. ...

Aoi sanmyaku (1975)

Remake of 1949 film ...

The Perennial Weed (1975)

A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect. ...

Bôkenshatachi (1975)

A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea. ...

ESPY (1974)

Two Japanese spies with extrasensory powers go to Istanbul to stop a global agenda of assassinations. ...

Sandakan No. 8 (1974)

A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a brothel called Sandakan No. 8. ...

The Castle of Sand (1974)

Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a Tokyo rail yard. ...

My Blood is the Blood of Others (1974)

Wet Dice (1974)

Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded with customers infatuated with her. For the past three years, Kayo has been in a relationship with Murakami, a city councilman. One day, a young man and woman ...

The Assassination of Ryoma (1974)

Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tried to unite the Choshu and Satsuma clans and prepared the way for the Meiji Restoration (1868). ...

Trapped in Lust (1973)

A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization. ...

Sex Education Mistresses (1973)

An erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that are not satisfied with just having sex with their husbands. ...

The World of Geisha (1973)

The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of rice, and the military expedition to Siberia in 1918. But Shinsuke, a brothel owner, spends his days in the arms of geishas, paying little heed to the events ...

A Japanese Demon (1973)

A psychotherapist suffers from the onslaughts of Satori, the demon whose name is paradoxically homonymic to the word used for enlightenment experiences in the Zen tradition. Many people mistakenly believe that such a state is the goal of Zen practice; howe ...

Farewell to Rock'n Roll (1973)

There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yukiko, the "Bankaku," or chief bodyguard of the Akabane, is released from reform school and sets about to finish an ongoing one-on-one grudge match with the Ar ...

Woods Are Wet (1973)

Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Quickly this couple blackmails her and threatens to deliver her to the police. Sachiko has no other choice but to obey them. ...

Sweet Scent of Eros (1973)

Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko (Kaori Momoi) inherited from her parents. Soon after getting settled, the hippies slip into a communal lifestyle. They eat, have sex, and generally share e ...

The Sons (1973)

A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons. A meditation on sublimation, repetition, and death. The characters' images and movements are faint, but the mood is sensual. ...

Lone Wolf and Cub: Baby Cart to Hades (1972)

Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their leader to kill an evil chamberlain. ...

Inn of Evil (1971)

In feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world is strictly prohibited, an idealist appears at an isolated inn, headquarters of smugglers with stolen money intended to ransom his loved one forced to work in a brothel. ...

Wet Sand in August (1971)

Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their halcyon days are soon coming to an end. ...

Demons (1971)

Gengobe Satsuma, an exiled samurai cast out as an Asano clan retainer, is given a second chance to join his brothers in arms to become the 48th Ronin against the Shogunate. His faithful servant gathers the 100 ryo required for his acceptance. Gengobe is al ...

Running in Madness, Dying in Love (1969)

During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides in the house of his brother - a police officer. The latter is accidentally shot by his wife, which forces the young man to flee with her. ...

Sexual Play (1969)

A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon University during the period of social struggles. The film begins in a lengthy free-love session taking the form of a 'play' rape being enacted by a group ...

The Notorious Concubines (1968)

Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and produced by Shochiku. Set in Song-dynasty China, Wu Song rises to fame and becomes a guard captain. He is captivated by his brother's wife, Pan Jinlian, whose ...

Sex Zone (1968)

Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here his favorite style, a kind of conceptual documentary recounting the incident in monotone. The same event that at the beginning of Violated Angels escaped eve ...

The Pistol That Sprouted Hair (1968)

Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with a stolen handgun. In retaliation, the organization hires two killers to get rid of Shirō. The duo begin to develop a strange kinship with their target... ...

Desire of the Flesh (1968)

Pinku from 1968 ...

Sex Crimes (1968)

Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach. ...

Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands (1967)

A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film showing the fact. He hires a hitman, Sho, and shows him the film, so that the detective can get rid of the criminals. But the boss of the criminal band is ...

Vagabond of Sex (1967)

A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns home he finds out that his wife is starring in Imamura's documentary about her search for her missing husband. ...

Abnormal Blood (1967)

A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same lineage of depraved individuals, a genealogy of violent and sexually perverse deviants that stretches through the Meiji, Taisho and Showa eras and can even b ...

Birth Control Revolution (1967)

The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to become pregnant if she is writhing in intense pain during intercourse. He sets about testing this new method of birth control by torturing women during sex. ...

The Orgy (1967)

A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and those he loves endangers his plan. ...

Season of Betrayal (1966)

A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield. ...

The Embryo Hunts in Secret (1966)

A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjected to various types of bondage, whipped, and tortured with a razor blade. ...