Hatsuo Yamaya Movies

A young yakuza member is doomed as he swings between two organizations in the Tohoku region, during the late Shōwa period.

Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father, who left her 20 years ago. Natsuko sets out to...

Pinku from 1968

Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

A psychotherapist suffers from the onslaughts of Satori, the demon whose name is paradoxically homonymic to the word used for enlightenment...

A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.

A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow photographer on the battlefield.

In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers there is a boy who lives next to a university women's dormitory and he checks them out...

Japanese horror anthology of 4 chilling tales.

Since she was a little girl, Nagisa Yoko had two dreams: one was to have a song written for her by Aku Yu; the other was to sing at the Shinjuku Koma...

In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants and women of the night gather. The city hall's plan...

Oedipus, a prince of Corinth, was prophesied to "kill his father and marry his mother." To avoid the fulfillment of this prophecy, he went on a...

Mimi-chan is a 17-year-old high school student and she lives with her parents in Asagaya, Tokyo. While walking home from school, Mimi-chan is hit by...

An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

Yoshii and his wife Yoko are elementary school teachers in a mountainous village. One day, an elderly writer arrives with his granddaughter, Rika....

A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two adopted sons. A meditation on sublimation,...