Shōji Yasui
Popularity:0.183
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1928-08-16
Place of Birth:Tokyo, Japan
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Also Known As:Сёдзи Ясуи

Yakuza Princess of Edo (1961)
Tsukitaro, a young man who comes to Edo, meets a blind girl named Ochiyo. Ochiyo 's father, the grinder Yasujiro, was asked to sharpen a sword called...

The Burmese Harp (1956)
In Burma during the closing days of WWII, a Japanese soldier separated from his unit disguises himself as a Buddhist monk to escape imprisonment as a...

Love in the Mountains (1959)
A mother and her daughter who run a quiet mountain hotel, and guests who visit the hotel. A girl who does not know what a broken heart is, the...

Diary of Good Conduct Matashiro: A beautiful bat (1961)
Rampant ronin Matashiro Sasai, finds himself embroiled in serious unrest after he rescues a geisha who is being kidnapped by a group of ronin.

Rusty Knife (1958)
Udaka is a new, post-war city where corruption has already taken hold. A persistent district attorney wants to arrest and convict Katsumata, a...

Forbidden Lips (1958)
A youth lyrical story of pure love of a girl who grew up in the Kyoto Gion quarter, with a geisha mother and sisters Maiko and a college student.

The Heart (1955)
In the dying months of the Meiji era, a sympathetic student befriends a married couple, but soon realizes they share a curiously strained...

Unripe Fruit (1959)
A youth lyrical painting depicting a sensitive young man with rich poetic feelings focused on the concerns and aspirations of a high school student.

The Moon Has Risen (1955)
Mokichi is the widowed father of three daughters, with whom he lives on the premises of a temple since the war. All three daughters become involved...

Detective (1964)
The first film with Tetsuro Tamba as a detective. An exciting drama about the pursuit of a criminal, which takes place in Yokohama. Tamba...

Fangs of Night (1958)
A young doctor discovers that the city hall of records has a record of his death. He and some friends try to seek out the person who reported it, and...

Nerai uchi buraikan (1962)
1962 Japanese movie

Yearning (1993)
Famed onnagata (a man who plays women's parts in Kabuki) Tamasaburo Bando follows up on the success of his directorial debut, Gekashitsu, with this...

Jirocho’s Days of Youth: The Youngest Boss in the Tokai Region (1961)
He was married to his lover's butterfly and started a new residence. But good things do not last. In his uncle, Uzaemon in Kawashima, Yoshiji Akaji,...

Kuro to aka no hanabira (1962)
Crime film distributed by Taiho.

The Human Condition II: Road to Eternity (1959)
Kaji is sent to the Japanese army labeled Red and is mistreated by the vets. Along his assignment, Kaji witnesses cruelties in the army and revolts...

The Conspirator (1961)
Young lord Saburo Nobuyasu struggles to find comfort in life. His arranged marriage to Tokuhime, daughter of one-time family enemy Oda Nobunaga,...

Temptation (1957)
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art...

The Yagyu Military Art: One Eyed Swordsman (1962)
In the fourth film in this exciting series, and the first since losing his left eye, Yagyu Jubei is charged again with the task of protecting the...

Good-for-Nothing (1960)
Yoshida's first feature follows the lives of young students against a background of jazz, emptiness and boredom. The plot is fairly simple: a...

Harbor Rats (1957)
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

The Fall of Ako Castle (1978)
This is the story of "The Forty-Seven Ronin." Based on historical events in 1701-2, the movie tells the tale of the Asano clan's downfall and the...

The Black Current (1954)
A reporter Takuo, who is sleeping in the newspaper room of the Maichō newspaper company, receives a sudden report from a reporter that the missing...

The Seasons of Love (1958)
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Mist and Shadows (1961)
The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters...

Hot Corner Murder (1960)
Prosecutor Takayama investigates the sudden death of a third baseman in the middle of a game.

Travels of Hibari and Chiemi 2 (1963)
A princess seeks adventure and true love, with help from her loyal servant.

A Young Warrior on Mount Fuji (1961)
The epic battles between the Heike and Genji (Taira and Minamoto clans) take centerstage as the defeated leader of the Genji, Minamoto Yoritomo...

Hibari is Fashion Crazy (1961)
Under a decree by the Shogun, people of all classes are forced to lead a frugal lifestyle. However, Omitsu, a woman who is thought to have gone...

Saigo no totsugeki (1957)
A narrative depicting the appearance of soldiers scattered in Rabaul during the Pacific War. The original work of Yoshinori Matsuura was dramatized...

Okinawa no Tami (1956)
With the background of the Battle of Okinawa, he draws a semi-documentary image of each individual person under an unusual psychological state of...

Mahiru no wana (1960)
On his way to Tokyo one night, a truck driver picks up a country girl and has his way with her amidst a forest. A few days later he loses his job...

Little Tengu (1961)
A story about a tomboy, Otoshi, who is good at singing, dancing and fencing.

The Samurai of Edo (1955)
This historical film depicts the life of a man who was at the mercy of the waves during transition from the end of the Edo period to the Meiji...

The Echo of Love (1959)
A pure love melodrama movie.

Honno-Ji in Flames (1960)
The plot is based on the novel "Akechi Samanosuke no Koi," the final work in a trilogy by Hiroshi Kato about the forced suicide of Oda Nobunaga at...

Mountain Pass (1957)
Adaptation of Jirō Osaragi's novel.

Onatsu Detective Case: Mad Slasher (1960)
Japanese crime film

I told you so (1959)
A film adaptation of the popular hit by glamorous singer Keiko Matsuyama.

Akō Rōshi (1964)
"Ako Roshi" is a group of 47 former retainers of Lord Asano. Lord Asano was forced to commit suicide after attempting to kill Lord Kira. Once the...

Konya Uchu no Katasumi de (1998)
This love comedy is set in New York, where a Japanese beautician (Naoko Iijima) is courted by two men (Masahiko Nishimura and Takaaki Ishibashi).