Movies: Michino Yokoyama

  • 1987
    A Taxing Woman

    A Taxing Woman (1987)

    A Taxing Woman

    6.81987HD

    Intrepid tax investigator Ryoko Itakura sets her sights on the mysterious and philandering Hideki Gondo, a suspected millionaire and proprietor of a thriving chain of seedy hourly hotels, who has for years succeeded at hiding the true extent of his a...

    A Taxing Woman
  • 1994
    47 Ronin

    47 Ronin (1994)

    47 Ronin

    7.51994HD

    Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal followers (now Ronin, masterless Samurai) dedicate their lives to avenging his death....

    47 Ronin
  • 1960
    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs

    81960HD

    Keiko, whom everyone calls Mama, narrates her story: she's a hostess on the Ginza, 30, a widow. She describes life's vicious cycle: acting cheerful around drunks, dressing and living well to convey confidence, needing money for these expenses and for...

    When a Woman Ascends the Stairs
  • 1984
    The Funeral

    The Funeral (1984)

    The Funeral

    7.21984HD

    When Wabisuke's father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home....

    The Funeral
  • 1983
    The Makioka Sisters

    The Makioka Sisters (1983)

    The Makioka Sisters

    7.41983HD

    This sensuously beautiful film chronicles the activities of four sisters who gather in Kyoto every year to view the cherry blossoms. It paints a vivid portrait of the pre-war lifestyle of the wealthy Makioka family from Osaka, and draws a parallel be...

    The Makioka Sisters
  • 1959
    The Beast Shall Die

    The Beast Shall Die (1959)

    The Beast Shall Die

    5.61959HD

    A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man....

    The Beast Shall Die
  • 1959
    Desperado Outpost

    Desperado Outpost (1959)

    Desperado Outpost

    6.11959HD

    When Sergeant Okubo's brother is murdered at a Japanese outpost in Northern China during the Second World War, Okubo poses as a war correspondent and seeks out his brother's killer....

    Desperado Outpost
  • 1991
    Noh Mask Murders

    Noh Mask Murders (1991)

    Noh Mask Murders

    5.61991HD

    The patriarch of a bickering family announces his retirement, stirring competition about who will succeed him as a leading practitioner of Noh theater, his granddaughter or grandson....

    Noh Mask Murders
  • 1960
    Westward Desperado

    Westward Desperado (1960)

    Westward Desperado

    6.21960HD

    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 Communist China to bring back the flag of a defeated enemy regiment....

    Westward Desperado
  • 1960
    Beyond the Hills

    Beyond the Hills (1960)

    Beyond the Hills

    01960HD

    Story of young love in the hills....

    Beyond the Hills
  • 1966
    The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay

    The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay (1966)

    The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay

    01966HD

    Sangoro Oiwake runs out of money. He visits rice shop, eat and drink for free, and owners send him to prison. In prison Sangoro will have a new life...

    The Boss of Pick-Pocket Bay
  • 1987
    Actress

    Actress (1987)

    Actress

    71987HD

    Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi....

    Actress
  • 1959
    The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

    The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)

    The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung

    01959HD

    The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the origi...

    The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung
  • 1992
    Kwaidan

    Kwaidan (1992)

    Kwaidan

    01992HD

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    Kwaidan
  • 1960
    The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

    The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night (1960)

    The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night

    01960HD

    Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo....

    The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
  • 1960
    The Lovelorn Geisha

    The Lovelorn Geisha (1960)

    The Lovelorn Geisha

    6.61960HD

    A woman and her daughter are in love with the same man, a chef at the restaurant that the mother manages. He is slightly crippled from frostbite in his years in Siberian labor camps and considers himself 'already dead'....

    The Lovelorn Geisha
  • 1959
    New Third-Class Executive

    New Third-Class Executive (1959)

    New Third-Class Executive

    01959HD

    At an Osaka electronics company, power struggles, corporate schemes, and personal agendas collide when the boss is away. As tensions rise around a meddling heiress and a collapsing business deal, one quiet employee steps up to set things right....

    New Third-Class Executive
  • 1961
    Blueprint of Murder

    Blueprint of Murder (1961)

    Blueprint of Murder

    6.21961HD

    Yuzo Kayama plays the protagonist, a whale-hunting cannon manufactuing supervisor, whose brother is an automobile tester for Komatsu Motors which has a fatal accident. As his brother investigates the "Accident" with his old college friend (makoto Sat...

    Blueprint of Murder
  • 1962
    Gekkyū dorobō

    Gekkyū dorobō (1962)

    Gekkyū dorobō

    01962HD

    1962 Japanese movie...

    Gekkyū dorobō
  • 1958
    Who Is the Informer?

    Who Is the Informer? (1958)

    Who Is the Informer?

    01958HD

    After killing a detective in a botched robbery, Keiichi (Natsuki) is on the run as police stake out the homes of his sisters, mother, and girlfriend....

    Who Is the Informer?