Isao Yamagata Movies

A romance that follows the men in the life of Kyoko a Travel Agent working for New Japan Travel Service.

This period film is inspired by one of the most notorious scandals to have taken place in Edo-period Japan. The heroine, Ejima, was a lady of the...

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair.

1954 Theater of Life adaptation.

Japanese horror movie from 1982.

Wandering swordsman Kanbei, parading through town with a sign that reads "Seeking fights, selling my life cheap." One day, he receives a request from...

1957 Japanese movie

Daughter of a lumber shop in Edo strives to protect her family business from the competitor.

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Kichizaburo, a samurai keeping peace in Edo, helps a young geisha Kozome avenge her father’s death.

Period drama directed by Yasushi Sasaki.

Gombei is Nameless, a wanderer who is skilled with a sword and has a great sense of humor, who tries to save the good people of the Kiso Valley, he...

Romantic comedy.

An adaptation of the famous novel by Jiromasa Gunji about the difficult story of Niiro Tsuruchiyo, the illegitimate son of the great elder of the...

A touching story depicting the harsh lives of farmers in Kasumigaura. An attempt to start a fishery business to revive an ailing farming community...

While on his journey through the countryside of Japan, Shingo encounters many people whose lives have been affected by his actions. Though the many...

A classic battle between good and evil pits an unscrupulous fortuneteller who has been preying on the good citizens of Edo against a master-less...

Five swordsmen are murdered and hung from a tree and the chase is on to find the killers. Two magistrates pursue the leads to solve the crime and it...