Ken Yamauchi Movies

On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university...

A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.

The story of love and friendship between a seamstress girl and a member of a student ensemble, who, against all odds, turned a song written by the...

Engineer Shuichi defies his wealthy family to live with bar hostess Kazuyo, whose loyalty to her struggling family complicates their love. As class,...

The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the...

Two young lovers stake their lives on passion. Yet a cruel and capricious fate cruelly extinguishes the blazing flame of their love.

Japanese youth film.

In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in...

Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic...

A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.

Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of...

Young men get together and dream of becoming a successful band, while a young woman (Masako Izumi) dreams of becoming a successful manager. Inspired...

a modest family struck by hardship after a tragic event. The film explores the sacrifices of a brother and sister as they struggle with economic...

A girl runs away form her house in Kyoto to find fortune in the Japanese capital.