Masashi Yamamoto

Wonderful Paradise (2020)

In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya's, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo. The move is slow, long and heartbreaking, and the two Sasaya children, an old teenager and a young adult, ...

The Voice of Water (2014)

A sect is threatened to fall apart, when its leader, a young Korean woman, develops doubts regarding her alleged psychic powers. ...

Sunrise Sunset (2013)

Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors. An ensemble comedy that adapts a theatre piece performed in 1997 by director H ...

Sawada (2012)

Seven women and one man gathered for the first anniversary of a movie director. Six cameras recorded the night at the same time with 8mm insert. ...

Three☆Points (2011)

Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; "Okinawa", a documentary about intriguing characters who ...

Scary True Stories: Night 10 - Possession (2008)

15th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series. ...

Man, Woman & the Wall (2006)

When Ryo, a young magazine reporter, moves into a new apartment he is greeted by the passionate sounds of his astonishingly beautiful neighbor Satsuki. Realizing the wall dividing their apartments is paper thin, the captivated journalist begins to eavesdro ...

Tokyo of the Dead - 3 days (2006)

Cycle (2005)

A girl sees every day a woman on a cycle who might be a ghost. ...

Limousine Drive (2000)

A ganguro girl named Eri travels to NYC to visit her lover. ...

Junk Food (1997)

Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family altar; however, it is the second segment where the true story b ...

Atlanta Boogie (1996)

"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly. ...

What's Up Connection (1990)

When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo. On the way, he connects with a barely competent tour guide and a gender-fluid pickpocket. ...

Robinson's Garden (1987)

Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery. She decides to move there, even further away from the ci ...

Carnival in the Night (1981)

The newly divorced singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and embarks on a crazy tour of Tokyo's shadowy side. ...

Saint Terrorism (1980)

The daily life of young people at the dawn of the 1980s. One of them murdered passers-by in a park, shooting at random with a gun. One day, she meets a burglar who poisons her victims and confides in him. ...

Prelude to the Murder of a Prison Guard (1979)

A young man idles around Tokyo, collecting materials to construct a diorama of a cityscape. ...

The Brand New Legend of the Stardust Brothers (2018)

A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction. ...

A Crowd of Three (2010)

A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility. Kenta & Jun now works as part of a demolition crew but become fed up with their jobs. The friends then decide to take a road trip up ...

The Whispering of the Gods (2005)

Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test. ...

Mike Yokohama: A Forest with No Name (2003)

Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest. ...

The Stairway to the Distant Past (1995)

Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle. But when Lily, a beautiful stripper from out of Hama's past, returns to town, the fuse is l ...

March Comes In Like a Lion (1991)

Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover. Since he has no memory of his sister Ice, he obliges her. How long until his memory returns? ...