Date of birth: 1933-12-19
Place of birth: Senboku, Akita, Japan
Known for: Acting
Also known as: 山谷初夫, Hatsuo Yamaya, 山谷八男

Actor and musical artist.

1975-08-09
Remake of 1949 film

1966-07-01
A man keeps his girlfriend tied up in his small apartment and tortures her. She is undressed, subjec

1980-08-06
A young woman breaks off her long-term relationship with her boyfriend to move to Tokyo in search of

1996-07-27
Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. Th

1990-03-24
In this omnibus movie of four stories about teenagers there is a boy who lives next to a university

1998-03-14
Natsuko's mother is hospitalized and only has six months to live. Her last wish is to see her father

1973-05-23
Sachiko has just committed a crime. She is helped by a couple to whom she grants her confidence. Qui

1998-05-17
At the end of WWII, Japanese doctor Akagi searches for the cure for hepatitis in the prisoner-of-war

2006-07-07
Four farmers spend the night at a campfire. Three of them talk about work, nature and weather, while

2007-03-15
Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, i

1971-09-11
The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly pro

1979-02-17
Junko Miyashita plays a mysterious hitchhiker picked up by a brute of a construction worker named Ke

1973-11-03
The world is in turmoil with the October Revolution of 1917, riots over the inflationary price of ri

1971-08-25
Several high-school friends spend their final summer together indulging in sex and leisure; their ha

1980-04-01
A surreal period film following a university professor and his eerie nomad friend as they go through
1967-02-21
The insane gynecologist, Dr. Marukido Sadao (Marquis de Sade), theorizes that a woman is unable to b

1967-10-03
A wealthy real estate investor is forced to watch the rape of his girlfriend and then is sent a film

1977-02-23
A somewhat liberal adaptation of the life of painter Shuu Ito, the film focuses on his sexual tortur

1977-06-04
Two infantry regiments of the Imperial Japanese Army—210 men overall—tackled Mt. Hakkoda in the wint

1974-12-28
The film deals with the recruitment of race car driver Jiro Miki (Masao Kusakari) and his dog, Caesa

2015-04-25
Mimi-chan is a 17-year-old high school student and she lives with her parents in Asagaya, Tokyo. Whi

1973-11-20
An erotic comedy depicting the sex adventures of young wives living in an apartment complex, that a

1977-11-19
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed wherever she goes, even as the modern world impos

1992-10-24
Shoko and Mutsuki get married to satisfy their worried parents, but she is well past the age at whic

1973-12-15
A hitman messes up an assassination and so becomes the next target of his organization.

2002-06-07
Oedipus, a prince of Corinth, was prophesied to "kill his father and marry his mother." To avoid the

1979-03-03
One summer day, Tokujiro, who works at an ironworks in the industrial area of Kawasaki, joins a ch

2009-10-10
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against

1974-11-02
A young journalist interviews an elderly woman about being forced into prostitution in Borneo at a b
1969-02-24
A masterpiece of militant cinema of 1968, filmed on the actual barricades of Adachi's very own Nihon

1967-09-12
A man leaves his family in Tokyo to travel and engage in various sexual escapades. When he returns h

1990-11-17
A middle-aged man discovers an injured refugee woman trembling in the corner of his bar in Kabukicho

2013-08-10
Told from the viewpoint of the father Morio, "A Boy Called H" follows a young boy named Hajime Senoh

1973-03-24
Yukie, Koichi and Akira are rogues looking for a place to crash. They move into a house which Etsuko

2015-08-10
In the summer of 1963, flats of modern construction begin to be built in the slums where vagrants an

1969-07-22
During clashes between demonstrators and police that rage on the streets of Tokyo, a young man hides

1979-05-26
A plot to steal money from gangsters leads to trouble...

1981-10-20
This TV drama special depicts the obsession of a sister and two detectives searching for her missing

1983-01-15
An emotionally distraught young man goes on a violent killing spree after his tuberculosis keeps him

1982-10-16
After a passenger ship sinks in 1954, Go Akutsu devises a life-saving project in the form of a tunne

1979-12-01
A 19-year-old newspaper delivery boy begins collecting information on the households in his neighbor

1979-06-02
From Hokkaido to Tokyo, hunting dog Goro embarks on a long and grueling journey to reach home. With

1986-12-13
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets sca

2000-07-22
Amon is a boy who can control the wind. Branik, ruler of the Empire of the Golden Snake, wants Amon'

1983-02-19
Japan in the 1940s. A high school boy went into a magic encounter with Ozuka Hana, a geisha (pub-gir

2017-10-21
Aki is an unsuccessful 29-year-old actress who eventually became a magician's assistant. While prete

1971-02-13
Tells the story of the samurai Gengobe, who seeks revenge after falling prey to the schemes of a gei

1981-02-14
An award-winning Japanese film about a child's experiences during the Second World War.

1979-10-20
When a lone traveler stumbles upon a remote, drought-stricken village, he finds himself engulfed in

1984-09-01
Set in the icy wilderness of Hokkaido during the early days of the Meiji era, where the brutal warde

1986-04-12
In the 50s, the complicated life of a popular writer who must share his life with his family, his nu

1977-10-29
The heir to a family fortune discovers that a curse has been placed on it, put there centuries befor

1983-11-12
Eiji lives a quiet life running a small Izakaya with his wife. He spends his days cooking for and se

1973-09-25
There is an ongoing war between two Girl Gangs, the Akabane 100 Club and the Ikebukuro Cavalry. Yuki

1966-12-13
A press photographer returns to Japan from the war in Vietnam after losing his friend and fellow pho

1999-09-15
A man is shocked to find out that after a deadly car accident involving his wife and daughter, his w

1985-08-03
A young man working as a cameraman in Tokyo is visited for three days by his parents from the countr

1974-08-03
Story of the last three days in the life of Sakamoto Ryoma (1836-1867), the imperial loyalist who tr

1992-10-02
Koji Wakamatsu adapted Kouhei Tsuka's play of the same name into a human comedy about the members of

1973-09-29

1980-04-29
A tragic love story between a prostitute and a young trainee monk.

1968-08-01
Inspired by the true story of a Geisha murdered in a city famous for its baths, Adachi forged here h

1983-12-24

1980-12-27
Based on the comic book series of the same name by Yûsuke Aoyagi.

1979-08-18
Mika Hino is a sharp-shooting investigator that belongs to the infamous "Gator Branch.” When an exec

1986-12-05
A female teacher falls in love with her student

1968-03-12
Pinku from 1968

1968-02-17
Young slacker couple accidentially kills a friend. They burn his body and hang out on a beach.
2004-02-01
A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances o

2009-03-30

1968-09-27
Based on the Chinese classic "Jin Ping Mei". Original Japanese cut directed by Koji Wakamatsu and pr

1974-09-11
Kayo, who is famous for her beauty, own a bar in a port town. The establishment is always crowded wi

1975-08-09
After his leading actress becomes pregnant and wants to quit, Juzo, an adult film director, becomes

1980-08-16
A young man from Kyushu,Adachi Futoshi had come to Tokyo to make a life. Adachi moved into a small r

1967-01-01
A hitman focuses on his job hoping to retire quickly and richly. But the betrayal of his clan and th

1979-03-03
Shima Nishikata, a beautiful teacher of classical literature at a private high school, teaches durin

1968-05-01
Shirō raids the office of the organization that attacked his lover, wreaking havoc and escaping with

1972-09-02
Ogami Itto volunteers to be tortured by Yakuza in order to save a prostitute and is hired by their l

1978-10-07
When Sokichi stops providing his long-time lover Kikuyo enough money to pay for the care of their th

1967-08-06
A detective investigating a serial rapist discovers that he and the perpetrator come from the same l

1983-08-06
Tora-san returns to his family home to learn that his brother-in-law cannot go to Mitsuo's (Tora-san

1989-10-07

1974-10-19
Two detectives are tasked to investigate the murder of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a To

1980-10-25

1986-01-25

1976-10-16
Hisayoshi, who was known as "Matahisa" and was a famous bondage artist in the Kansai region, is now

2013-07-13

1978-08-05

1973-01-01
A gay poem, clearly inspired by Cocteau, about the ambiguous relationship between a man and his two

1975-06-07
A detective wonders that his sister is a murder suspect.

1976-01-17
1976 Japanese movie

2009-06-01
Since she was a little girl, Nagisa Yoko had two dreams: one was to have a song written for her by A

1975-04-14
A group of young men go treasure hunting in the sea.

1974-10-12

1980-06-28
A selfish playboy uses rich women to pay off his debts. Divorcing his wife and marrying the woman he

2005-10-03
A group of eccentric students decide to make a movie. But, when their star suddenly quits, this witt
1979-06-30
A TV film based on the kidnapping and murder of 4 year old Yoshinobu Murakoshi.