Screenplay: Masahiro Yamada

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Masahiro Yamada. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


Eros plus massacre

1969 · Movie · 216 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Toshiyuki Hosokawa · Yûko Kusunoki · Etsushi Takahashi

Synopsis Erosu Purasu Gyakusatsu is the biography of early 20th-Century socialist (and eventual anarchist) rebel Sakae Osugi, and the three women in his life: Hori Yasuko, his wife; his jealous, second lover, Itsuko Masaoka, a militant feminist (a/k/a Kamichika Ichiko) and...

7.4

156 votes

7.4

156 votes

Farewell to the Summer Light

1968 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Tadashi Yokouchi · Paul Beauvais · Hélène Soubielle

Synopsis The setup here is a couple. They are both Japanese. She is married to a European, is haunted by the Nagasaki bomb which killed her father. The two are in love. That's all you need to know about the story....

7.0

121 votes

7.0

121 votes

Flame and Women

1967 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Isao Kimura · Mayumi Ogawa · Takeshi Kusaka

Synopsis Ritsuko is married to Shingo, a design engineer. Shingo is unable to father a child so Ritsuko is artificially inseminated. The birth of a son, Takashi, however, does not help marital relations between husband and wife. When Sakaguchi, a doctor...

6.9

70 votes

6.9

70 votes

Confessions Among Actresses

1971 · Movie · 124 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshishige Yoshida

Cast Mariko Okada · Ruriko Asaoka · Ineko Arima · Kiwako Taichi

Synopsis In this intricately layered film, the nature of actresses and what they gain from acting is explored. The lives of three actresses are laid bare, and scenes from their lives are woven in and out of interviews with each of...

6.1

36 votes

6.1

36 votes

Ultraseven (TV Series)

1967 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuho Mitsuta · Toshitsugu Suzuki · Samaji Nonagase · Hajime Tsuburaya

Cast Kôji Moritsugu · Yuriko Hishimi · Sandayû Dokumamushi · Shôji Nakayama

Synopsis An alien superhero from M-78 protects Earth from extraterrestrial threats in this popular classic follow-up to the original "Ultraman" TV series.

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Ultraman Ace (TV Series)

1972 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Masanori Kakei · Eizo Yamagiwa · Tadashi Mafune · Takumi Furukawa

Cast Keiji Takamine · Mitsuko Hoshi · Tetsurô Sagawa · Shunichi Okita

Synopsis TV series (1972-1973). 52 episodes.

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Ultra Q (TV Series)

1966 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Samaji Nonagase · Toshihiro Iijima · Kôji Kajita · Harunosuke Nakagawa

Cast Kenji Sahara · Yasuhiko Saijô · Hiroko Sakurai · Yoshifumi Tajima

Synopsis The first television series produced by eiji tsyburaya,the special effects man behind Godzilla.In the vein of the outer limits and the twilight zone except with giant rubber suited monsters.The show revolves around three recurring characters and the situations they get...

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The War of the 16 Year Olds

1973 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Toshio Matsumoto

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Itsuro Shimoda · Michiko Saga · Takamaru Sasaki

Synopsis The film serves as a tribute to those that lost their lives during the air raid on the Toyokawa Naval Arsenal on August 7, 1945. As it's experimental and dream-like, you may quite possibly derive further meaning from it.

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