The best Goichi Yamada’s drama movies

Goichi Yamada

Goichi Yamada

10/02/1933- 13/10/2012
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Goichi Yamada’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Goichi Yamada.

The Tragic Music Teacher

The Tragic Music Teacher
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1977
A young teacher (Eiko Nagashima) is raped by students. She tries to resign but then decides to return and face the class.

Blood End

Blood End
6.6/10
BLOOD END is one of the great unknown films from Japan's golden era of the late 1960's. Starring NAKADAI Tatsuya in one of his best roles, this is the story of the Mito Tengu Group who attempted to overthrow the Shogunate at the beginning of the Bakumatsu Period. Their political aspirations led to countless assassinations, as well as senseless killing of innocent people who got in their way. Sentaro (NAKADAI), a farmer who's been severely beaten for his outspoken defiance of the government and the high taxes during a time of famine is befriended by one of the group's leaders, KADA Gentaro (KATO Go) and joins up. This is the masterpiece of director YAMAMOTO Satsuo (who is best known for the first film in the NINJA, BAND OF ASSASSINS series) the erstwhile 'Leftist' director, who used his films to make his political points. Stunning fight choreography, and ultra-violence make this one of the bloodiest films of that era. A powerful film Rare classic!

Return of the Young Boss

Return of the Young Boss
4.6/10
The further adventures of Takeshi Nanjo, the Young Boss.

Sensei

Sensei
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/04/1989
  • Character: Old Man

Eclair

Eclair
5.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/05/2011
  • Character: Kokubu gakuin inchô
A film about an orphan kid in Japan in 1943

Double Suicide at Nishijin

Double Suicide at Nishijin
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/10/1977
  • Character: Nomura
Yumi, an exceptionally beautiful call girl, has a close call with death when a client forces her to die with him. An old cop pities her and agrees to be her guarantor so that she could join a Nishijin weaver workshop. Yumi wishes to put her dark past behind her, but she's exposed by an ex-client. Despite the unwavered support of the old cop, she sees no way out and uses her seductive body again to get what she wants. Hiroyuki, her co-worker at the weaver workshop, is a pure-hearted young man who may redeem Yumi from her deadly path as a femme fatale.

A sky full of tears

A sky full of tears
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/05/1966
  • Character: Maekawa
Popular guitarist Shunsuke Sugi had a busy schedule and lived a puppet life with manager Yoko Ohara. On the way home from the Tohoku tour, he rescued Akiko, a girl who had passed out in a car accident. Ahead of him was the bustle of Tokyo. He suddenly met Akiko during a noisy party with friends. He tried to persuade Akiko, who wanted to become a singer, to return to the village, but it didn't work. One day he invited Akiko to play in Yokohama. When they returned to childhood and talked about their dreams, they felt love for the first time. Meanwhile, returning home, Yoko turned her jealousy on the two of them, and announced the death of Shunsuke's mother...

Children of Izu

Children of Izu
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/11/1962
  • Character: Hajime Nakagawa

The Old Bear Hunter

The Old Bear Hunter
7.1/10
  • Genre: AdventureDrama
  • Release: 25/01/1982
  • Character: Iwakichi, father
After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

Ame no meguri ai

Ame no meguri ai
Japanese drama film.

The Rickshaw Man’s Son

The Rickshaw Man’s Son
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/12/1967
A roughneck named Komakichi of Kawachi, Osaka, comes back from a three-year training course to become a chef, hoping to be with his crush Tamae, a daughter of a Japanese restaurant’s owner. His father is not happy because Komakichi has no intention to become a rickshaw man to follow in his father’s footsteps.

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