Ken Yamauchi

Onigiri: Arcadia monogatari (2004)

A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee ...

Harbor Light Yokohama (1968)

A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne. ...

The Sweet Interns (1968)

The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students. ...

My Sweetheart (1967)

It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popul ...

Tokyo Night (1967)

A girl runs away form her house in Kyoto to find fortune in the Japanese capital. ...

The Spiders: The Reckless Operation (1967)

The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to prove their love for a girl who told them "the person who can overcome any obstacle will be my lover"! Neither traffic, buildings, nor the police can stop them ...

The Will to Live (1967)

The Sunset Is Crying (1967)

The Spiders hit song made into a movie. ...

Ginza for Two (1967)

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the composer about adversity into a real hit. The film adaptation of the hit of the same name by the duo Izumi an ...

The Black Sheep (1967)

Young female teacher Kyoko Miyake relocates to a small seaside town with her runaway little sister, but their new life is complicated by hoodlum-like Jiro Yamazaki (the black sheep of the title) who is related to the family hosting them and whom they keep ...

Journey to the North (1967)

Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance o ...

I'll Never Cry! (1966)

The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new ...

Goodbye Mr. Tears (1966)

An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother. ...

Tomo o okuru uta (1966)

Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man (1966)

In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organiz ...

Return of the Wolf (1966)

A Nikkatsu sun tribe / youth film set in a small seaside town. ...

Youth A Go Go! (1966)

Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh. ...

A Girl of the Plateau (1965)

Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. ...

The Song of Love (1965)

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father. ...

Born Under Crossed Stars (1965)

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day. ...

Northern City (1965)

Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of young dreams. Based on the novel "Memory of Snow" written by Takeo Tomishima. ...

Flowering Maidens (1965)

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki. ...

Four Young Sisters (1964)

Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she lov ...

Eddy Currents of Life (1964)

It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursio ...

Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa (1964)

Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy fac ...

Tokyo Olympics (1964)

Adapted from the song " Tokyo Olympic Ondo " , which was the theme song for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics held in October 1964 . Song was composed by Masao Koga. ...

Spirit of Youth (1964)

Japanese youth film. ...

Welcome, My Baby (1964)

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and att ...

Bright Sea (1963)

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind ...

The School Cap (1963)

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior ...

Distant Love (1963)

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman. ...

The Incorrigible (1963)

Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard. ...

Wakai futari (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Rainbow Over Kinmon (1962)

Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-bo ...

The Young and Bad (1962)

Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it ...

The Man With Starry Eyes (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love (1962)

The President's Son (1962)

Facing to the Clouds (1962)

A rookie newspaper journalist, Takema Sakaki, has a strong sense of justice. In the Diet Building he gets acquainted with a library worker, Reiko Nakafuji. Reiko's father was a member of the Diet who was assassinated six years ago. Through Reiko, Takema jo ...

An Urban Affair (1961)

Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments. ...

Beyond the Hills (1960)

Story of young love in the hills. ...

A Whistle in My Heart (1959)

The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state. ...

Summer Clouds (1958)

A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to ...

Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957)

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for t ...

Ticket to Hell (1955)

Japanese crime film ...