Zenji Yamada
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Zenji Yamada.
Born: July 17, 1914
Place of Birth: Hokkaido, Japan
Known For
Special Crime Investigation Front
The Maid's Kid
In order to pay back Mrs. Kajiki for her good deed in the past, Hatsu moves from her village in Akita to Tokyo to start working as a maid for her family. She grows close to their youngest son Katsumi, experiencing things that will change her view on life.
Forever a Woman
Fumiko, mother of two children and wife of an unfaithful man, shares her family life with her budding vocation as a poet. The beginning of her successful literary career coincides with her divorce and her breast cancer diagnosis. In the last stage of her life, she meets a young journalist from Tokyo who wants to write a story on her life.
Eight Hours of Terror
A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.
A Sun-Tribe Myth from the Bakumatsu Era
Saheji, a man-about-town, gets stuck at a high-class brothel when he can’t pay the bill. He makes the best of his situation by performing various tasks amidst the tumult of the end of the shogunate—but always by making sure to get a “commission” for his troubles.
A Colt Is My Passport
A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
Birth of a Fighter
A young boss proves his right to rule his gang.
Suzaki Paradise: Red Light District
A jobless young couple, Yoshigi and Tsutue, wind up at the outskirts of the Suzaki red-light district in Tokyo. Tsutue talks her way into a job pouring sake for male customers at a small bar run by a sympathetic older woman, while Yoshigi is shunted off into a nearby noodle shop, where he gets a job delivering noodles. Tsutue charms and runs off with one of her clients. Yoshigi, ignoring the attentions of a sweet co-worker, pursues Tsutue.
Teenage Yakuza
A high-school vigilante protects his community from the extortions of mobsters from a neighbouring city.
Intimidation
Koreyoshi Kurahara's ingeniously plotted, pocket-size noir concerns the intertwined fates of a desperate bank manager, blackmailed for book-cooking, and his resentful but timid underling, passed over for a promotion. The marvelously moody Intimidation is an elegantly stripped-down and carefully paced crime drama.
Filmography
as Shokichi Umetani
as Captain of the Kamome-maru
as Barge captain
as Yamada
as Policeman
as Tomota
as Owner
as Fujita
as Nagai
as Yoshio's Father
as Shimadachi
as Owner of the diner
as Senkichi Hamada
as Ono
as Suzuki
as Akama
as Tanabe
as Zenzo Shima
as Coach Yamamoto
as Junpei Murakoshi
as Janitor
as Man Looks Like Carpenter
as Lawyer Nagata
as "Bar Carol" manager
as Nobuchi's uncle
as Police Officer
as Toyogorô