Direction: Kimiyoshi Yasuda

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kimiyoshi Yasuda. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


6.7

52 votes

6.7

90 votes

Zatoichi's Conspiracy

1973 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

6.6

44 votes

6.6

44 votes

6.6

56 votes

Majin the Monster of Terror

1966 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Miwa Takada · Yoshihiko Aoyama · Jun Fujimaki · Ryutaro Gomi

Plot A giant stone statue comes to life to protect the residents of a small town against the depradations of an evil warlord.

6.3

162 votes

6.3

162 votes

The Hundred Monsters

1968 · Movie · 80 min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Jun Fujimaki · Miwa Takada · Shinobu Araki · Mikiko Tsubouchi

Plot A wicked developer is brutally trying to drive people out of an apartment building and destroy a nearby shrine. Of course this makes the the Yokai monsters angry and they...

5.8

75 votes

5.8

75 votes

Saigo ni warau otoko

1949 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

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Tôkyô bakuto

1967 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

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Shin Kurama Tengu

1965 · Movie · 77 min. · Japan

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The Hoodlum Priest

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Mayumi Ogawa · Hosei Komatsu · Naoko Kubo

Plot The first of two films in the Ryuzen series, a rogue martial arts practicing, fornicating, alcohol drinking, gambling priest who competes against the local yakuza thug by opening his own...

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Yokai Monster 3

1969 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshiyuki Kuroda · Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Kojiro Hongo · Pepe Hozumi · Masami Burukido · Mutsuhiro

Plot Yokai Monsters Along Came Ghosts is the third in the series. A poor grandpa gets caught in the cross fire between rival bosses. Nearly slashed to death he crawls off...

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Nuretsubame katageri

1969 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Michiyo Oguso · Kojiro Hongo · Asao Koike

Plot A girl who flees from the samurai of the Goro family is saved by Kin, an accomplished female swordsman who has the peculiarity of being left-handed and one-eyed.

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A Gambler's Life: The Massacring Fudo

1969 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Yoshio Kaneuchi · Saburo Date · Takeshi Hamada

Plot A debt collector visits a gambling den in search of a gambler - the gambler's wife and daughter are sick; unknown to the debt collector he kills the gambler. He...

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Kaidan Kasane-ga-fuchi

1970 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Saburo Date · Kenjiro Ishiyama · Teruo Ishiyama · Reiko Kasahara

Plot A blind masseur sleeps with the wife of a samurai, who catches them in the act and kills them. The murdered couple return as vengeful ghosts. This film is a...

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Maiko monogatari

1954 · Movie · min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Ayako Wakao · Jun Negami · Michiko Ai

Plot Student Tomeko returns to Kyoto to learn that her mother, geisha from the famous Gion neighborhood, is ill. On the way, on the train he meets a young doctor he...

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Akumyô ichidai

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Kimiyoshi Yasuda

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Mitsuko Mori · Yuko Hamada

Plot Asakichi is involved in the matter of an inheritance for which several yakuza bands fight.

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