Yoji Yamada Movies

Based on a children's book. Two children encounter a wooden chair that moves and speaks. The chair awaits their return, unaware the sister died in...

When unexpected trouble arises with an account Hama-chan brought in, he's sent to Toyama with his beautiful colleague to fix the problem.

The film is based on the 1959 hit song of the same name by the Three Cats.

Yasugoro, goes to live in a quiet town where he falls in love with the priest's daughter-in-law. His does not declare his love because she is...

A Japanese stage actor in Yokohama is terminally ill, and is determined to end his life, but doesn’t know to have inherited a large sum of...

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.

Hirayama Konosuke is a retired man who expects to spend a peaceful life with his wife, Fumie. However, his world is turned upside down when Fumie...

Hama-chan's supervisor is promoted after many frustrating years with his wayward, fishing-obsessed underling, and Hama-chan's new boss naively tries...

Hama-chan and Su-san meet a charming woman on a fishing trip, but forget to ask her name. Days later, Hama-chan sees her again at a dentist's office.

Kyoko is a university librarian and she also helps her parents with their drycleaning company. She is involved with a childhood friend from the...

Based on the long running manga by Sadao Shouji.

A road trip comedy set against the backdrop of the famous historical sites of Tohoku and Hokkaido.

Moriyama Kosaku is released from a Hokkaido prison on parole. After he salutes the prison officers, he approaches a car that is stopped nearby. A...

1962 Japanese movie

A story set in a small harmonica factory in Kita-Senju that celebrates the love lives of young workers.

This appears to be a labor of love. Its about a village which is given the opportunity to put on a musical. They would have to pay the overhead and,...

An opera singer finds herself stranded by a snow storm and has to take a taxi with a driver with his own personal version of “La Traviata”

After meeting as college students in the cinema town of Seijo, husband and wife Nobuhiko and Kyoko Obayashi have gone on to direct and produce...