The best Fujiko Yamamoto’s movies

Fujiko Yamamoto

Fujiko Yamamoto

11/12/1931 (92 años)
Today we present the best Fujiko Yamamoto’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Fujiko Yamamoto’s movies.
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Picnic

Picnic
7.1/10
Believing that the world will end that very day, three mental patients Coco, Tsumuji, and Satoru set out upon a journey. Walking upon the tops of the walls of the city, they seek to find a picnic spot with the best vantage point to view the final event.

Equinox Flower

Equinox Flower
7.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 07/09/1958
  • Character: Yukiko Sasaki
Later in his career, Ozu started becoming increasingly sympathetic with the younger generation, a shift that was cemented in Equinox Flower, his gorgeously detailed first color film, about an old-fashioned father and his newfangled daughter.

An Actor's Revenge

An Actor's Revenge
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/01/1963
  • Character: Ohatsu
While performing in a touring kabuki troupe, leading female impersonator Yukinojo comes across the three men who drove his parents to suicide twenty years earlier, and plans his revenge, firstly by seducing the daughter of one of them, secondly by ruining them...

Buddha

Buddha
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/10/1961
  • Character: Usha
An Indian prince leaves his world of comfort and riches behind to wander and meditate for six years in search of spiritual enlightenment. Siddartha (Cojoin Hong) turns his back on the old religion when people are starving needlessly and holy rituals include human sacrifices. During his meditations, he is tempted by erotic dancing women, demons, and the evil machinations of his criminal cousin. Devastate to attain the spiritual perfection and become the Buddha. He travels to convert followers by his kindness and wisdom, gaining a multitude of believers when he stops an elephant from crushing a local priest. Buddha of course goes on to become one of the great religious leaders of the world.

The Loyal 47 Ronin

The Loyal 47 Ronin
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/04/1958
  • Character: Yôsen'in
Japan, 1701. A group of samurai become rônin after their lord is forced to commit seppuku for assaulting a court official, who will become the target of a merciless revenge.

Night River

Night River
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1956
In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Being Two Isn't Easy

Being Two Isn't Easy
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/11/1962
  • Character: Chiyo
The days leading up to a toddler's second birthday are seen alternately from the child's point of view as well as that of his parents.

Secret of Naruto

Secret of Naruto
6.9/10
From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious swordsman named Noriyuki Gennojo has crossed Naruto’s waters to uncover the Awa clan’s secrets. He puts his life on the line after finding a testament of Awa’s secrets, written in blood by a dying man. Joining Noriyuki are a female ninja who loves him, and the beautiful daughter of an enemy who’s sworn to kill him. Awa’s defenders willl stop at nothing to prevent the blood-soaked letter from reaching the shogun.

Princess Sen in Edo

Princess Sen in Edo
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/01/1960
  • Character: Princess Sen

Satan's Sword

Satan's Sword
6.5/10
  • Genre: Action
  • Release: 18/10/1960
  • Character: Omatsu
The Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy is based on Kaizan Nakazatos unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Tsuke Ryunosuke, a nihilistic swordmaster who doesn't hesitate to kill anyone, bad or good.

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

Long Swords of the Loyal Forty-Seven

A Woman's Testament

A Woman's Testament
6.8/10
  • Release: 14/01/1960
The first story concerns an attractive young woman who works in a Tokyo nightclub. Her plan for a solid financial future has a double whammy. In the second story, a beautiful young woman is employed by an unscrupulous real estate agent to convince male clients to invest in worthless property. The last story is about a widowed geisha who has no real financial worries and who falls in love with a forger.

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God

Satan's Sword: The Dragon God
6.4/10
The sequel to Daibosatsu tôge (1960) and the second of the trilogy follows the adventures of Ryunosuke Tsukue after he is blinded.

The Demon of Mount Oe

The Demon of Mount Oe
6.5/10
A demon-faced monster seeking revenge appears in the forms of a gigantic ox and a huge spider! The young Genji warrior protects the Fujiwara Clan and the beautiful lady in tragic love! A grand visual epic told with mesmerizing extravagance!

The Great Wall

The Great Wall
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 01/11/1962
  • Character: Princess Chu
In 221 BC, Qin Shihuangdi conquered the rest of China. Qin's great accomplishments and also his serious faults are showed in this film. Qin adopted autocratic dictatorship and led a luxurious life: abolition of feudalism and the centralization of power in the form of a now-hereditary bureaucracy loyal to himself; burning books and burying scholars; the construction of a sumptuous palace for his concubines and also the Great Wall.

Jirocho Fuji

Jirocho Fuji
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/06/1959
  • Character: Oshin
Legendary yakuza Shimizu Jirocho and his 28 henchmen travel the unruly path from a 'Fire Festival' in Akiba to a decisive battle by the Fujigawa.

Ten Black Women

Ten Black Women
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 03/05/1961
  • Character: Futaba Kaze
Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko

Inochi wo Kakeru Otoko
  • Release: 29/04/1958

Tsukigata Hanpeita: Flover Reel; Storm Reel

Tsukigata Hanpeita: Flover Reel; Storm Reel
6.5/10
During the bloody era of the Tokugawa Shogunate collapse, a man appeared capable of overthrowing a corrupt government and ending the feud between the Choshu and Satsuma clans. This is the story of Tsukigat Khanpayit, the sword maker of the Choshu clan, who, along with Katsuro Kogoro and Sakamoto Ryoma, sought to fulfill the dream of a new peaceful era in Japan. Can he realize his ideals or will he die in the chaos of internecine fights...

The Actress and the Three Rascals

The Actress and the Three Rascals
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 03/01/1962

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