Zenji Yamada

Zenji Yamada

July 17, 1914 · 112 years old

Known For

12 titles
1
A Colt Is My Passport

A Colt Is My Passport

1967 · 1h 24m · Movie

A hit man is hired to kill a mob boss. After the deed is done, he and his driver are wanted dead by rival gangs who joined forces.

7.4
2
Crazed Fruit

Crazed Fruit

1956 · 1h 26m · Movie

Spending their summer on an exotic beach, two brothers fall for the same beautiful girl, whose charm and looks may hide more than they they bargained for.

7.2
3
Gappa the Triphibian Monster

Gappa the Triphibian Monster

1967 · 1h 30m · Movie

Magazine reporters Hiroyuki Kurosaki and his colleagues brought back to Japan a monster child who had just hatched from an egg issued on the isolated island of Obelisk in the South Sea.

4.4
4
Cruel Gun Story

Cruel Gun Story

1964 · 1h 27m · Movie

A convict fresh out of prison, with a handicapped sister, is coerced by a wealthy mob boss into organizing an armored racetrack car heist.

7.1
5
Intimidation

Intimidation

1960 · 1h 5m · Movie

A bank manager is blackmailed into robbing his own bank.

7.2
6
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District

1956 · 1h 21m · Movie

A couple stand indecisively on a bridge in Asakusa. Tsutae and Yoshiji have lost confidence and passion for their future as they get on the bus for Tsukishima and get off at Suzaki. Across the bridge they see the sign for Suzaki P...

7.4
7
The Eternal Breasts

The Eternal Breasts

1955 · 1h 46m · Movie

Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man who shows a low self esteem, shares her family life with her asleep vocation as a poetess. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and...

7.7
8
The Heart

The Heart

1955 · 2h 0m · Movie

At the end of Meiji era a young student befriend an older man who as a proof of trust but also as a kind of exorcism entrust him his secret, a story about jealousy, betrayal, shame and guilt.

7.4
9
Black Sun

Black Sun

1964 · 1h 35m · Movie

One is a young, jazz-obsessed Japanese drifter and other is a black American GI on the lam in Tokyo. The two outsiders become outlaws and the movie depicts their growing bond as an alternately absurd and tragic culture clash.

6.7
10
Red Pier

Red Pier

1958 · 1h 39m · Movie

50s subculture icon Yujiro Ishihara (Crazed Fruit) stars in Masuda's Red Pier as "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent. Shortly after arriving in Kobe, he witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a ...

6.9
11
Kurenai no nagareboshi

Kurenai no nagareboshi

1967 · 1h 37m · Movie

A young yakuza hitman named Goro does a job and needs to hideout away from Tokyo for a while. He hangs out with loose women and hard men and always manages to stay one step ahead of the law. In his exile, he comes under suspicion ...

6.6
12
Man Who Causes a Storm

Man Who Causes a Storm

1957 · 1h 41m · Movie

Shoichi is a violent young man just released from jail who aspires to be a drummer. He works his way up by playing gigs in a hip Ginza club, an eventually wins a drumming contest. But what he really desires is the approval of his ...

6.2