Ren Yamamoto Movies

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

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

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

An Ishiro Honda film.

A film by Hiroshi Inagaki.

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...

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...

A group of Japanese nursing students and their instructor is serving at an army camp in China. When Japan loses the war the group sets out to depart...

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

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

1964 Japanese movie

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...

Toshiro, a naval reserve student, is a kamikaze pilot. Unsure of how long he will live, Toshiro had no intention of marrying. However, after...

1962 Japanese movie

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....

Grown up son arrives home to learn his father, the newly elected mayor, has been assassinated. So he journeys down a path to find the assassin and...

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...