Takayuki Yamada Movies

Interview with Yamada Takayuki about his life, career and interests.

The end of the Tokugawa shogunate, a turbulent era that shook Japan. Were the men who created the new era really heroes?

The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person...

The life story of a treasure hunter who lives in the countryside of Gunma in Japan. He is pure and kind, but has no communication skills and has a...

A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha and the son of god Jesus, form an effort to make...

Takashi runs a barbershop in a country town. Tomoe was Takashi's girlfriend back in his high school days. She visits him and they meet for the first...

World War II comes to an end. Tokyo is a destroyed place, without law, driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA...

Hidenori and Nanase have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels of change are set in motion when married couple...

A three-timing 29 year-old man loses part of his memory after taking a nasty fall at a skating rink. The man, who works as pharmaceutical salesman,...

"Say Hello for Me" is a love story and talks about three people's childhood friendship and their reunion after 15 years of separation.

Following a scene where a young boy falls in love with the title character, only to have his heart broken by her, the film introduces us to three...

The Seaside Motel is trapped in the mountains, without even enough water to serve their guests 24 hours a day, much less having a view of a body of...

Follows three souls across Edo-period Japan, 1865 New South Wales and 2027 Australia, where each lifetime carries the emotional imprint of the last.

A short film by Kazuaki Kiriya.

Jennifer is a European girl who speaks Japanese a little. She arrives to the funeral in temple in Japanese countryside and meets a boy there. The boy...

"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection...

The protagonist has been secretly meeting with his friend A's lover. But then A suddenly dies. The friendship between the three, which had seemed to...

Ryuji Hoshikawa (played by Ken'ichi Endô), the leader of the Hoshikawa group and an executive of the Saito group, a branch of the Asahikawa...

Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three...

A short film by Yusuke Sakakibara.