Takayuki Yamada Movies

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...

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...

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...

After detective Natsumi Yukihira brings an end to the police hospital terrorist case, Natsumi is transferred to the Nishimonbetsu Police Station in...

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

Ushijima runs Kaukau Fiance, a black market lending agency which scourges its clients with interest rates as high as 50% for 10 days. Ushijima chases...

Riku, the heir to a corporate conglomerate, is determined to go through life never owing anything to anyone on principle. However, one day he nearly...

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

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

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...

TAKAYUKI YAMADA DOCUMENTARY「No Pain, No Gain」

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...

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...

A three-timing 29 year-old man loses part of his memory after taking a nasty fall at a skating rink. The man, who works as pharmaceutical salesman,...

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

"ZOKKI" is a unique film directed by Naoto Takenaka, Takayuki Yamada, and Takumi Saitoh. It is a live-action adaptation of a short story collection...

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...

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

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...