List of the best Yoshio Harada movies: Hunter in the Dark(1980), Melody in Gray(1977), Still Walking(2008), Dororo(2007), The Hunted(1995), Lady Snowblood 2: Love Song of Vengeance(1974), Yumeji(1991), Party 7(2000), Hana(2006) ... ...
Crime, Drama
1980
138 Minutes
Yataro Tanigawa
Tatsuya Nakadai Yoshio Harada Ayumi Ishida
crime boss bodyguard samurai lover enemy criminal thrilling brutal dark solemn japan temple teahouse bathhouse countryside village gangs protection amnesia betrayal
Dreams, passions and codes rule a gangster (Tatsuya Nakadai) and an amnesiac ex-samurai (Yoshio Harada) in 18th-century Japan.
Drama
1977
109 Minutes
Shima Iwashita Yoshio Harada Tomoko Naraoka Taiji Tonoyama Tôru Abe Jun Hamamura
A blind traveling musician is abused and oppressed while she tours the country, even though the modern world imposes changes on people's behavior.
Drama
Japan
2008
114 Minutes
Kyohei Yokoyama
Hiroshi Abe You Yoshio Harada Ryôga Hayashi Haruko Kato Kirin Kiki Yui Natsukawa Hotaru Nomoto Kazuya Takahashi Shohei Tanaka
mother father son wife daughter stranger emotional dark family home japan family dysfunction grief death discovery transformation 2000s
A family gathers together for a commemorative ritual whose nature only gradually becomes clear.
Fantasy, Horror, Action
Japan
2007
139 Minutes
Jukai
Satoshi Tsumabuki Kou Shibasaki Kiichi Nakai Yoshio Harada Eita Mieko Harada Katsuo Nakamura Kumiko Aso
A female warrior who was raised as a man joins a young samurai's quest to recover 48 of his body parts from 48 demons and to avenge her parents death.
Action
USA
1995
110 Minutes
Takeda
Christopher Lambert John Lone Joan Chen Yoshio Harada Yoko Shimada Mari Natsuki Takayuki Kubota Michael Warren
executive mysterious woman ninja assassin samurai wife thrilling suspenseful new york city japan island fortress hotel hospital business trip assassination cult survival on the run swordplay
A New Yorker on business in Nagoya meets a lady in the hotel bar. Returning to her room, 3 ninjas kill her and wound him. He sees the ninja boss' face. Ninjas try to kill him again but new samurai friends help, hide and train him.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1974
89 Minutes
Shusuke Tokunaga
Meiko Kaji Juzo Itami Kazuko Yoshiyuki Yoshio Harada Shin Kishida Tôru Abe Rin'ichi Yamamoto Kôji Nanbara
Yuki is imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged. Before she meets her death, she is recruited into the secret police and becomes caught in a web of corruption, assassination and coercion.
Biography
Japan
1991
128 Minutes
Wakiya
Kenji Sawada Tomoko Mariya Masumi Miyazaki Tamasaburo Bando Yoshio Harada Kazuhiko Hasegawa Leona Hirota
Painter and poet Yumeji Takehisa (1884-1934) gets involved with a beautiful widow, becoming a rival of her dead husband's ghost and the jealous lover who murdered him.
Comedy, Drama
Japan
2000
103 Minutes
Captain Banana
Masatoshi Nagase Keisuke Horibe Akemi Kobayashi Tadanobu Asano Yoshio Harada
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive ... See full summary »
Comedy, Drama
2006
127 Minutes
Junai Onodera
Jun'ichi Okada Rie Miyazawa Arata Furuta Jun Kunimura Katsuo Nakamura Tadanobu Asano Yoshio Harada Teruyuki Kagawa Tomoko Tabata Yui Natsukawa Renji Ishibashi