Ren Yamamoto Movies

A legendary gangster raises himself out of a small town and gathers followers on his rise to power.

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and...

A salaryman's drunken ravings in public attract the attention of journalists who coerce him into telling them his life's story.

1961 Japanese movie

An Ishiro Honda film.

Based on the novel of the same name by Shoji Yuki

An adaptation of Akira Yoshimura's original suspense novel starring Rentaro Mikuni. 4th year of the Taishō era. About 15 families who moved in...

Edmund Rostand's play Cyrano de Bergerac, transplanted to Japan. A poet-warrior with an oversized nose (matched only by his great heart) loves a...

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

In this patriotic WW II drama, the Japanese army demonstrates its courage and willingness to do anything to win as they endeavor to sneak into...

After a gang killing forces him to flee abroad, ex-yakuza Ryūji returns to Yokohama a year later to find his lover’s sister’s...

When a family comprised of a couple with one son is hurled into poverty when the businessman father loses his business, the mother and son move to...

After the son of a wealthy man is kidnapped, a tenacious young reporter decides to find the culprit.

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku...

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.

Judo expert Saburô Watari fights his judo master, Tsujido, while simultaneously in conflict with a karate expert.

Crime melodrama has young Kijima (Takarada) working at a successful cabaret, actually a front for drug dealing. Initially unaware of this, he falls...

Set during Japan's Bakumatsu period, the film follows Fukuzawa Yukichi, a poor samurai's son who defies societal norms to study Dutch and English....

A widowed high-school teacher tries to raise his four children alone.