Akio Yokoyama

Akio Yokoyama

Born: September 26, 1930
Died: June 20, 2014
in Toyama, Japan

Movies for Akio Yokoyama...

Title: Legal High
Released: April 17, 2012
Type: TV
A lawyer with a big personality works with an straightlaced recent law graduate on various law cases in Japan.
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About Her Brother
Title: About Her Brother
Character: Jiro
Released: January 30, 2010
Type: Movie
Ginko's younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending death marks the beginning of love and toleration.
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Title: Team Batista no Eikō
Character: Shuuzo Taguchi
Released: October 14, 2008
Type: TV
There exists a legendary team of surgical experts in Tojo University Hospital that specializes in the Batista procedure - one of the most difficult cardiac surgeries with the survival rate only at 60%. Ever since its formation, this team has shocked the country by having 27 consecutive post-operative successes, virtually unheard of in the medical community. They basked in the glory until three of the most recent procedures resulted in consecutive deaths on the operating table. Taguchi, a psychosomatic medicine specialist, has been entrusted with the investigation but is in over his head because of his soft nature and having to deal with skills beyond his realm of expertise. Then arrives Shiratori, a cocky Ministry of Health Labor and Welfare investigator. He not only labels Taguchi naive, but speaks with confidence that this is a murder, and the murderer is within this team of elites. As the mystery unfolds, so does the complicated affiliation between each of the seven team members.
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Adrift in Tokyo
Title: Adrift in Tokyo
Character: Plaster Mask
Released: November 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A thug offers to pay a law student's gambling debt if the student will accompany him on a trip across Tokyo.
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Into the Faraway Sky
Title: Into the Faraway Sky
Released: August 18, 2007
Type: Movie
A vast wheat field, a straight road that has no end, a sky without a single building in sight – this is a town in the country where time comfortably passes by. But this former paradise is now being stirred up by a fight amongst its people over constructing an airport. This is a tale of three young people exploring youth and friendship as they reach out into the sky.
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Title: Juken Sentai Gekiranger
Character: Butler
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Beast-Fist is a form of martial arts where the powers of a beast can be acquired by sensing the beast in their hearts. There are two relative schools of the Beast-Fist. One, the Beast-Fist of justice, Geki Juken Beast Arts. And one, the evil Beast-Fist of Rin Juken Akugata. The two schools of warriors learn and change in order to increase in power every day, as they are destined to clash.
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Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Title: Jusei: Last Drop of Blood
Released: June 14, 2003
Type: Movie
After serving a jail sentence, a former leading yakuza (Takaaki Ishibashi) has gone straight. He has married and is now holding a regular job. However, he is continually harrassed by a police inspector who cannot forgive his past. Meanwhile a major gang war erupts. With his former gang in danger of being exterminated, will his loyalties draw him back in?
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After Life
Title: After Life
Character: Security Guard
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: Movie
On a cold Monday morning, a group of counselors clock in at an old-fashioned social services office. Their task is to interview the recently deceased, record their personal details, then, over the course of the week, assist them in choosing a single memory to keep for eternity.
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Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland
Title: Meet Me in the Dream: Wonderland
Released: February 9, 1996
Type: Movie
Young and beautiful germophobe Ritsuko moves into a picture perfect neighborhood with her parents, being monitored by a research team who want to cure her of her debilitating phobias. Will her new neighbors be able to cure her of her irrational view of the outside world, or will coming face to face with this fairy-tale setting only drive her further inside of her subconsciousness?
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Villain Field
Title: Villain Field
Released: May 29, 1995
Type: Movie
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Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass
Title: Molester Diary: A Man Who Kept Stroking Ass
Released: January 12, 1995
Type: Movie
A manga artist stumbles into the sleazy world of perverts who stalk trains looking for women to molest. He discovers quickly that he is very much one of them and even finds love along the way. The first in the alarmingly long-running Molester Diary series.
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Gensen-Kan Inn
Title: Gensen-Kan Inn
Character: Mr Lee
Released: July 24, 1993
Type: Movie
An anthology film based on the works of manga artist Yoshiharu Tsuge. The main character in all four segments is a fledgling cartoonist named Tsube . In the first segment, Tsube encounters a dotty old man named Ri after renting a tumble-down cottage in the country. The following day, Ri, his equally weird wife, and his two squalid children move into his house. Soon the wife is stealing the cucumbers in his garden while the two kids devour all the food in the house.
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Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
Title: Lone Wolf Cop: The Sex Doll Case
Released: September 27, 1991
Type: Movie
A police officer is recruited to a special agency and given a license to kill. He is given a dozen or so young policemen and a bar as a front. Meanwhile, girls are disappearing and the friend of one girl is searching for her. It turns out the girls are being kidnapped and sold into bizarre kinky sex games to rich industrialists by a megalomaniacal corporation. One of the young deputies becomes involved and finds a friend of his (the boyfriend of the searching woman) is involved.
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Yamada baba ni hanataba o
Title: Yamada baba ni hanataba o
Character: Inoue
Released: December 15, 1990
Type: Movie
Yamada is the old mistress of a prestigious all-girl high school, who finds a natural enemy in Kamizaki, an outgoing first-year student. However, during Yamada's blind date, their bodies are inexplicably switched
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April Fish
Title: April Fish
Character: Manager
Released: May 31, 1986
Type: Movie
A Francophile filmmaker in a creative rut tries to pass off a free-spirited young actress as his movie-star wife in order to fool a chief from the South Seas.
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Title: Dimensional Warrior Spielban
Character: Director Oono
Released: April 7, 1986
Type: TV
Jikuu Senshi Spielban is a Japanese tokusatsu television series, part of the Metal Hero Series created by Toei Co. Ltd. from April 7, 1986 to March 9, 1987. Spielban's action footage was used for the battle scenes in VR Troopers. For distribution purposes, Toei refers to this television series as Spielvan.
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The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Title: The Legend of the Stardust Brothers
Character: Mifuku
Released: June 15, 1985
Type: Movie
A shady music mogul brings together two wannabe stars—punk rock rebel Kan and new-wave crooner Shingo—and transforms them into the Stardust Brothers, a girl-friendly, silver-jumpsuited, synth-pop sensation. Along with their #1 fan, who herself dreams of a music career, the duo rockets to stardom.
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Headphone Lullaby
Title: Headphone Lullaby
Released: July 10, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of friendship, love and sportsmanship among high-school students.
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The Ballad of Narayama
Title: The Ballad of Narayama
Character: Amaya
Released: April 29, 1983
Type: Movie
In a small village in a valley everyone who reaches the age of 70 must leave the village and go to a certain mountain top to die. If anyone should refuse they would disgrace their family. Old Orin is 69. This winter it is her turn to go to the mountain. But first she must make sure that her eldest son Tatsuhei finds a wife.
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The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
Title: The Mysterious Gemini • Y&S
Released: December 11, 1982
Type: Movie
Youth suspense movie.
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Sekushî purin: Kuse ni narisô
Title: Sekushî purin: Kuse ni narisô
Character: Apartment House's Manager
Released: December 25, 1981
Type: Movie
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Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Title: Barefoot Gen Part 3: Battle of Hiroshima
Released: July 5, 1980
Type: Movie
Second live action "Barefoot Gen" sequel.
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An Ocean to Cross
Title: An Ocean to Cross
Character: Sailor
Released: January 26, 1980
Type: Movie
Set in Japan's Tenpyou era (729-749 CE), four young monks are sent to China to study Buddhism and bring a high priest back to Japan with them. The film tells the tale of the four monks' youth and the life and times of the high priest Ganjin.
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Ame no meguri ai
Title: Ame no meguri ai
Released: May 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.