Ken Yamauchi

Ken Yamauchi

Born: December 9, 1943
Died: September 24, 2011
in Tokyo, Japan

Movies for Ken Yamauchi...

Onigiri: Arcadia monogatari
Title: Onigiri: Arcadia monogatari
Character: Takasago
Released: April 17, 2004
Type: Movie
A couple flees Tokyo, their family and friends. The girlfriend is a member of a rock band. She is dating the man, but friends and family are against it compelling her to move away. They stay at an inn in an area in which they know no one. One inn employee finds out about their dilemma and introduces them to a local farmer who offers them work and a home.
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Title: Hi no kuni ni
Character: 青年獣医・吉野正
Released: October 4, 1976
Type: TV
The 18th NHK Asadora. Starring Keiko Suzuka about a woman who strives to become a landscape gardener.
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Harbor Light Yokohama
Title: Harbor Light Yokohama
Released: December 4, 1968
Type: Movie
A hit-man returns to Japan after a long sojourne.
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The Sweet Interns
Title: The Sweet Interns
Released: January 3, 1968
Type: Movie
The love and friendship adventures of seven internship medical students.
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My Sweetheart
Title: My Sweetheart
Character: Yamakawa
Released: November 3, 1967
Type: Movie
It had been a year and four months since Mitsuo was last on a movie set. Welcomed back by director Ishizaki and his film crew, Mitsuo is excited to star as the lead in "My Sweetheart". One day, half way through production, he meets his friends from a popular rock group, "The Spiders". Through their discussion regarding the climax scene, they criticize that the script is too grim. In a notion to protect their friend's career, they decide to pay the scriptwriter a little visit.
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Tokyo Night
Title: Tokyo Night
Released: October 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A girl runs away form her house in Kyoto to find fortune in the Japanese capital.
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The Spiders' The Reckless Operation
Title: The Spiders' The Reckless Operation
Character: Ken
Released: August 26, 1967
Type: Movie
The Spiders, a Japanese pop group, in their first starring role, walk from Yokohama to Tokyo, to prove their love for a girl who told them "the person who can overcome any obstacle will be my lover"! Neither traffic, buildings, nor the police can stop them, in this madcap rock musical adventure!
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The Will to Live
Title: The Will to Live
Released: July 8, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Sunset Is Crying
Title: The Sunset Is Crying
Character: Kenji Yamada
Released: May 20, 1967
Type: Movie
The Spiders hit song made into a movie.
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Released: January 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Japanese drama film.
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Journey to the North
Title: Journey to the North
Character: Kenji Kawara
Released: January 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Winter holidays at the university. Eikichi visits a city in the north of the country, the hometown of Yuko, a classmate for whom he has feelings. However, Yuko, having returned home, has just become engaged to a local young man, and the sudden appearance of Eikichi makes others worry that their good relationship will be spoiled. An epic about pure love, which tells the story of a man who leaves his beloved woman, praying for her happiness. Adapted from the novel "Kiri no Naka no Shojo" Yojiro Ishizaka.
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I'll Never Cry!
Title: I'll Never Cry!
Released: October 29, 1966
Type: Movie
The rehabilitation of a delinquent on leaving reformatory. Her redemption comes through a boy in a wheelchair; by his rehabilitation, growing comes in courage along with her patient, she grows by finding meaning in her own existence. She finally sees a new world before her and has the determination to lead a normal life.
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Goodbye Mr. Tears
Title: Goodbye Mr. Tears
Released: July 30, 1966
Type: Movie
An American-Japanese girl travels to Japan to find her mother.
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Tomo o okuru uta
Title: Tomo o okuru uta
Character: Gen'ichi Nakagawa
Released: June 25, 1966
Type: Movie
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Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
Title: Story of Japanese Chivalry: Flower of a Chivalrous Man
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
In the early years of the twentieth-century a young gambler returns to his home town where he finds the gang of which he was once a member engaged in a feud with a rival gang. Though he successfully settles their differences he is turned out of the organization for the way in which accomplishes it. Upon his return he finds that the fortunes of the group have declined - there has been treachery and desertion. This time with the approval of the seniors he settles the differences with a duel. After winning, however, he declines the position of gang-boss, preferring his freedom, and once more leaves town.
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Return of the Wolf
Title: Return of the Wolf
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
A Nikkatsu sun tribe / youth film set in a small seaside town.
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Youth A Go Go!
Title: Youth A Go Go!
Character: Ken'ichi Muraki
Released: March 27, 1966
Type: Movie
Kenichi and Satoru join up with three other electric music lovers to form their own band, "The Young and Fresh."
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A Girl of the Plateau
Title: A Girl of the Plateau
Character: Susumu Mishima
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Kazuo Kitagawa lives on a farm on the Tateshina Plateau with his late teacher's widow and daughter, continuing his research. One day, Kazuo is attracted to the beautiful young lady who is visiting the villa when he goes out to the town…
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The Song of Love
Title: The Song of Love
Released: October 30, 1965
Type: Movie
Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.
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Born Under Crossed Stars
Title: Born Under Crossed Stars
Character: Gorô Nishizaka
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day.
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Northern City
Title: Northern City
Character: Fujita
Released: March 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Nikkatsu youth masterpiece, which celebrates the love and friendship of young people who have blossomed in a beautiful northern spring with a lot of young dreams. Based on the novel "Memory of Snow" written by Takeo Tomishima.
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Flowering Maidens
Title: Flowering Maidens
Character: Shôji Yamaguchi
Released: January 24, 1965
Type: Movie
The young yakuza who have arrived in the city are being taught the beauty of work and the pleasure of learning by hard-working young people of the same generation. Youth masterpiece created based on the hit Kazuo Funaki.
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Four Young Sisters
Title: Four Young Sisters
Character: Kenkichi Kono
Released: December 1, 1964
Type: Movie
Three girls come to Tokyo to stay with their elder sister. Actually they are running away from home because their father has married again to a very young woman. They have many romantic adventures and one finally decides against the boy she thought she loved because he, just like her father is always away from home. But directly after her marriage to another young man, her sister runs after the former boy-friend.
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Eddy Currents of Life
Title: Eddy Currents of Life
Character: Jiro Sasaki
Released: November 22, 1964
Type: Movie
It is 1922 and Fumiko is a high school student. Her family is poor but she loves to study literature. Her father, a peddler, does not return home and Fumiko finds herself in financial trouble, not being able to pay for her schooling and her school excursion trip. Still, she gets a temporary job at a factory and tries to make ends meet. A film about bright side of youth adapted from the television serial of the same name.
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あゝ青春の胸の血は
Title: あゝ青春の胸の血は
Released: September 9, 1964
Type: Movie
College student Kunio Shimizu ended up helping a girl named Yuko Nishizawa who was being chased by someone. From that encounter, Kunio naturally falls in love. However, he is tormented when he learns from a thug-like man who is Yuko's friend that she had been in a facility because she had committed theft in the past.
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Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
Title: Aa Seishun no Mune no Chi wa
Released: September 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Kunio Shimizu, a sailor of Tohto University, helped a girl that was chased by someone on her way home from practice.The girl went away without saying anything, leaving her wallet with Kunio. A few days later, she visited Kunio. She was working at a toy factory called Tomoko Nishizawa. Kunio naturally became attracted to Tomoko, but for some reason Tomoko refused to talk about her past. One day, the two went to the bowling alley and were approached by Tempira...
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Spirit of Youth
Title: Spirit of Youth
Character: Ken Yamaguchi
Released: May 13, 1964
Type: Movie
Japanese youth film.
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Welcome, My Baby
Title: Welcome, My Baby
Character: Goro Nishizaka
Released: February 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Two friends, both members of a Japanese cargo boat, return to Japan after a three-month voyage and have just 24 hours shore leave. In those hectic hours, they vie for the affections of a hotel owner's daughter but wind up with separate girl friends and attempt to bring together the parents of a baby who have separated.
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Bright Sea
Title: Bright Sea
Character: Tatsuo Mukai
Released: December 26, 1963
Type: Movie
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
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The School Cap
Title: The School Cap
Released: December 15, 1963
Type: Movie
A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing of an old school cap by a senior. It is a symbol of courage and bravery and is handed down to a new senior each year.
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Distant Love
Title: Distant Love
Character: Ryôsuke Okada
Released: October 27, 1963
Type: Movie
A romance of a pure young lover and his heartbreak for a beautiful older woman.
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The Incorrigible
Title: The Incorrigible
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
Based on the loosely autobiographical novel of the same name by Toko Kon. Ken Yamanouchi stars as Togo Konno, the titular bastard.
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Wakai futari
Title: Wakai futari
Released: November 21, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Rainbow Over Kinmon
Title: Rainbow Over Kinmon
Released: November 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Three years had passed since Ichiro Takeo left Japan. He was a young physician with a promising future, until his medical error caused the death of a big-shot politician. He was discharged from the hospital and had since sailed around the world as an on-board doctor. As he was about to reach the Taiwanese piers of Kinmon Island, thoughts of his days in Japan crossed his mind - he reminisced about the Taiwanese girl, Yan, who had scooped him out of his misery during the time of the medical accident. At times of war, the two rekindle an old flame.
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The Young and Bad
Title: The Young and Bad
Character: Kazumasa Ayanokôji
Released: September 9, 1962
Type: Movie
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
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Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Title: Hoshi no hitomi o motsu otoko
Released: August 5, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
Title: Dahil Sa Iyo – The Song of Sad Love
Character: Tommy Fukuda
Released: July 15, 1962
Type: Movie
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The President's Son
Title: The President's Son
Released: May 27, 1962
Type: Movie
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Facing to the Clouds
Title: Facing to the Clouds
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
1962 Japanese movie
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An Urban Affair
Title: An Urban Affair
Character: Ichiro Gonda
Released: August 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
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Beyond the Hills
Title: Beyond the Hills
Character: Daisuke Inoue
Released: February 2, 1960
Type: Movie
Story of young love in the hills.
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A Whistle in My Heart
Title: A Whistle in My Heart
Character: (as Ken Kubo)
Released: March 29, 1959
Type: Movie
The story is about the social problems faced by Japan's indigenous Ainu, mostly centered on the reactions of the characters to their oppressed state.
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Summer Clouds
Title: Summer Clouds
Released: September 2, 1958
Type: Movie
A war widow with a young boy manages a farm with her bossy mother-in-law. When a reporter comes to interview her, the two begin an affair. He turns out to be married and won't leave his wife. Her older brother tries to marry off his children and hang on to/ extend his farm through an advantageous marriage in the face of threatened land confiscation and the desire of his children to get comfortable urban jobs instead of the backbreaking work in the paddy fields under parental control.
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Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Title: Yagyu Secret Scrolls
Released: April 14, 1957
Type: Movie
In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for the secrets to be understood. When Princess Yuhime steals the scrolls, Tasaburo, a samurai with magical powers, and his brother Senshiro are sent to retrieve them.
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Ticket to Hell
Title: Ticket to Hell
Character: Jôji Ogata
Released: September 28, 1955
Type: Movie