Takayuki Yamada Movies

World War II comes to an end. Tokyo is a destroyed place, without law, driven by hunger and greed. From over 100,000 pages of declassified CIA...

Jennifer is a European girl who speaks Japanese a little. She arrives to the funeral in temple in Japanese countryside and meets a boy there. The boy...

"Say Hello for Me" is a love story and talks about three people's childhood friendship and their reunion after 15 years of separation.

The story is about a group of university students who inevitably gets involved in playing a game of "Horumo" - a combat match where each person...

Hidenori and Nanase have lived together for ten years in a tense, platonic relationship. The wheels of change are set in motion when married couple...

TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」

The end of the Tokugawa shogunate, a turbulent era that shook Japan. Were the men who created the new era really heroes?

A group of saints living together in a room in Tokyo's tachikawa apartment, the awakened man Buddha and the son of god Jesus, form an effort to make...

A Japanese teenager bicycles aimlessly through the countryside after killing his mother.

Ryuji Hoshikawa (played by Ken'ichi Endô), the leader of the Hoshikawa group and an executive of the Saito group, a branch of the Asahikawa...

Following a scene where a young boy falls in love with the title character, only to have his heart broken by her, the film introduces us to three...

The Seaside Motel is trapped in the mountains, without even enough water to serve their guests 24 hours a day, much less having a view of a body of...

A short film by Kazuaki Kiriya.

Rakugo Eiga is a film featuring Japan's traditional art, 'rakugo' as its theme. It is a modern adaptation of three rakugo tales presented in three...

Six stories based on six songs, the first project of Cinema Fighters.

Nagisa, a sophomore in college, doesn't have a lover.

Takashi runs a barbershop in a country town. Tomoe was Takashi's girlfriend back in his high school days. She visits him and they meet for the first...

Interview with Yamada Takayuki about his life, career and interests.

When a top secret chemical compound called MW infects an island near Okinawa, the military is sent in to kill all the victims and cover up the...