Best movies of Mitsuo Yanagimachi

Himatsuri(1985)

Combined Rating:
3
Combined Critics Rating: 3

The villagers in a beautiful remote area of Japan are divided into the woodsmen, who worship the mountain goddess, and the fishermen, who worship the goddess of the sea. These traditions ...



Shadow of China(1989)

Combined Rating:
1
Combined Critics Rating: 0

A Chinese political refugee tries to make his way to the top as a businessman in Hong Kong while his former radicalism is transformed into cynicism. His past comes back to haunt him.



Jukyusai no chizu(1979)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 habits and rating how much he dislikes them.



Saraba itoshiki daichi(1982)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

The film opens with the drowning deaths of farmer Yukio's two sons. Their deaths send him on a course of self-destruction.



Ai ni tsuite, Tokyo(1992)

Combined Rating:
0
Combined Critics Rating: 0

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 rooms, and suffers ...