Direction: Mitsuo Yanagimachi

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


God Speed You! Black Emperor

1976 · Documentary · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

6.5

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6.5

34 votes

The Nineteen Year-Old's Map

1979 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Yuji Honma · Keizo Kanie · Hideko Okiyama · Chisako Hara

Plot Yanagimachi's first feature film is about a young man who makes a map of a neighborhood in which he delivers newspapers. He keeps a dossier on each family, recording their...

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Shadow of China

1989 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast John Lone · Koichi Sato · Sammi Davis · Vivian Wu

Plot During Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution, idealistic anticommunist Henry Wong fled mainland China as a political refugee with his then girlfriend, Moo-Ling. He built himself a new life in Hong Kong...

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Ai ni tsuite, Tokyo

1992 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Asuka Okasaka · Hiroshi Fujioka · Qian Po · Gu Xiao Tong

Plot In order to support himself while living in Japan, the Chinese student Ho Jun works in a slaughterhouse in Tokyo, lives with lots of other poor Chinese students in cheap...

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Himatsuri

1985 · Movie · 126 min. · Japan

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Farewell to the Land

1982 · Movie · 130 min. · Japan

Direction Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Cast Jinpachi Nezu · Kumiko Akiyoshi · Jirô Chiba · Miyako Yamaguchi

Plot The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction. Blaming himself, he breaks with his family and wife,...

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Who's Camus Anyway?

2005 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

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