Direction: Yoichi Takabayashi
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Yoichi Takabayashi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
The Woman
1980 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan
Direction Yoichi Takabayashi
Cast Akiko Kana · Seiya Nakano · Noboru Nakaya · Kyôko Togawa
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The Water Was So Clear
1973 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan
Direction Yoichi Takabayashi
Cast Yûtarô Ban · Akira Nitta · Kanae Kobayashi · Sachie Matsuda
Plot A Buddhist priest rescues a homeless girl and brings her into his temple’s household. Soon she becomes an essential part of the place. One night she is raped by a...
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Death at an Old Mansion
1976 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Yoichi Takabayashi
Cast Akira Nakao · Junko Takazawa · Takahiro Tamura · Fujio Tokita
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Double Suicide at Nishijin
1977 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Yoichi Takabayashi
Cast Yoshie Shimamura · Yoshio Tsuchiya · Goichi Yamada · Akira Nakao
Plot "Double Suicide" - 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...
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Kinkakuji
1976 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Yoichi Takabayashi
Cast Saburo Shinoda · Toshio Shiba · Katsuhiko Yokomitsu · Yoshie Shimamura
Plot "Temple of the Golden Pavillion" - About the psychological decline of a novice Buddhist monk. After the death of his father, the stammering Goichi Mizoguchi seeks succour and loftier insights...
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Irezumi
1982 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan
Direction Yoichi Takabayashi
Cast Masayo Utsunomiya · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Masaki Kyômoto · Harue Kyô
Plot To satisfy her lover's fetish for tattooed women, Akane agrees to have her body covered in eloborate tattoos by Kyogoro, an old craftsman. Kyogoro has developed a special technique, by...
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