Shôji Yamada Movies

Snow in Spring

61/100

After his mother's death, Yamamura takes his father to live with him and his family, but the old man's senility soon gets worse. Continually disrupted by the father's irrational behavior, ... See full summary »

September Steps

65/100

On a mountain, in an abandoned house, lives an old man. His life is divided between his senile wife, the masks he sculpts, and the special kind of help he brings to sad women.

Flame of Mountain

An old man makes clay flutes. He lives all by himself deep in the mountain, escaping from human society. Once in a while, however, he comes down to the town, where he exchanges his cray ... See full summary »

Hariko no tora

Momofuku Hanazawa is a man with a problem. He loves Hanafuda, a Japanese card game, but he always loses. His losing streak has created a mountain of debt to Torakichi Takida, the older ... See full summary »