Masashi Yamamoto Trailers
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Born in Ōita Prefecture, Yamamoto attended Meiji University but left early to concentrate on making independent 8mm films. His Carnival in the Night was screened at the 1983 Berlin Film Festival, and Robinson's Garden was given the Zitty Award at the 1987 edition of the Berlinale. The latter film also earned him the Directors Guild of Japan New Directors Award. In 1998 he was given a research fellowship from Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs to study in New York, during which time he set up screenings of his film Junk Food in America. Often filming those living on the margins of Japanese society, his film Limousine Drive was actually filmed in the United States. He has also acted in some films.
Most Popular Masashi Yamamoto Trailers
Total trailers found: 25
26 January 2013
Film in the second group of works from the hands-on filmmaking academy Cinema Impact, produced by director Yamamoto Masashi with the participation of 13 up-and-coming directors.
01 January 2012
Seven women and one man gathered for the first anniversary of a movie director. Six cameras recorded the night at the same time with 8mm insert.
20 January 2018
A sequel to the 1980 movie The Legend of the Stardust Brothers. As well as being a rock musical comedy, it also borrows elements from other genres such as road movies, westerns, and meta fiction.
30 October 2006
When Ryo, a young magazine reporter, moves into a new apartment he is greeted by the passionate sounds of his astonishingly beautiful neighbor Satsuki.
15 September 1990
When a Hong Kong teenager from a poor family wins a trip to Japan, he unleashes a chain of events that will soon bring him from his secluded fishing village to Tokyo.
12 June 2010
A Crowd of Three tells the story of two men, Kenta & Jun, who grew up as almost brothers at a children's facility.
18 March 1995
Broke, with his vintage Nash convertible repossessed, private eye Mike Hama is reduced to combing the mean streets of the Yokohama waterfront on a borrowed bicycle.
20 November 2020
In consequence of his professional mistakes and declining career, Shuji and his family, the Sasaya’s, are forced to leave the wealthy suburb of Tokyo.
09 November 1996
"Atlanta Boogie" centers around a mock track meet between the "normal" and "good" citizens of Yokohama and those they want to expel from the neighborhood: the illegal foreign workers, the deadbeats, the juvenile delinquents, and elderly.
26 May 2000
A ganguro girl named Eri travels to NYC to visit her lover.
04 April 2008
15th installment in Broadway's "Honto ni Atta Kowai Hanashi" series.
17 December 2005
Rou has returned to the monastery he was raised in. As he listens to the whispering of the Gods through his germanium radio, Rou defies God in every which way and puts religion to the test.
01 January 2005
A girl sees every day a woman on a cycle who might be a ghost.
06 September 1997
Junk Food consists of four intertwining stories. The first and fourth sections show the morning routine of an blind, old Japanese woman, waking up, buying bread and milk, praying at the family altar; however, it is the second segment where the true story begins.
13 April 1991
Set in Tokyo, Ice brings her amnesiac older brother Haruo home from the hospital to care for him. He is reluctant to go, until Ice tells him that she is his lover.
19 March 2003
Private detective Mike takes on an assignment to return a girl, who is set to marry into a prestigious family, from a mysterious commune in the forest.
03 June 1979
A young man idles around Tokyo, collecting materials to construct a diorama of a cityscape.
14 May 2011
Three stories, depicted in three different styles, unfold in three locations: "Kyoto", a lyrical improvised drama based on documentar y footage following local rappers, which is blended with fiction; "Okinawa", a documentary about intriguing characters who Yamamoto met by chance; and " Tokyo", an otherworldly love story about a man dealing with loss who drifts through life, and a woman who pretends to be his deceased wife.
20 February 1987
Kumi lives a hippie-like life in Tokyo's outskirts. One night while drunk she stumbles into an abandoned industrial site, except in addition to deserted factories, it is full of forests and greenery.
19 March 1981
The newly divorced singer Kumi is not too enthusiastic about life as a single mother. She drops her son to her ex-husband, leaving her band and embarks on a crazy tour of Tokyo's shadowy side.
30 August 2014
A sect is threatened to fall apart, when its leader, a young Korean woman, develops doubts regarding her alleged psychic powers.
21 June 1980
The daily life of young people at the dawn of the 1980s. One of them murdered passers-by in a park, shooting at random with a gun.
28 April 2026
a newly commissioned short film directed by Masashi Yamamoto
01 January 1991
Unfinished film based on the life of biologist Minakata Kumagusu.
