Akira Yamanouchi Movies

Fearless Edo-period police inspector Hanzo Itami, nicknamed The Razor, has developed his own unique way of extracting information for his inquiries....

After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old...

An ever evolving alien life-form arrives on a comet from the Dark Gaseous Nebula and proceeds to consume pollution. Spewing mists of sulfuric acid...

The Americans are swiftly closing on Okinawa, an island just south of the Japanese mainland. The Imperial command sends top generals and several army...

In the fifth film of the Lone Wolf and Cub series, Ogami Itto is challenged by five warriors, each has one fifth of Ogami's assassin fee and one...

A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual.

Filmed in a documentary style, six patients in six wards of different ages and circumstances await death at a hospital in Japan. The sterile and...

In the city of Yokosuka, Kinta and his lover Haruko, both involved with yakuza, brave the post-occupation period with a goal to be together.

Shows the devastation caused by the atomic bomb, and by use of a fictional storyline, portrays the struggle of the ordinary Japanese people in...

Minoru delivered newspapers to earn money for high school, but when his mother came down with illness he decided to use this money for her doctor's...

Based on "Une vie" by Guy de Maupassant

Miho and Toshio, putting their children and household at stake, duel for control in their degrading, middle-aged marriage.

A treasury official passed over for promotion and obsessed with careerism interferes in the lives of his three sons, who seek escape from his...

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener.

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...

1962 Japanese movie

A Japanese war widow recalls her love affair with her deceased husband.

After his own gang sets him up to kill a rival mobster, a hit man is forced to flee with his younger brother.