Writing

Gan Yamazaki

Born — Died

1929-11-04 — 1997-03-08

Place of birth

Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster poster
5.6

An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile is discovered inside. The natives warn the foreigners to leave the hatching alone, but they don't listen and take it back to a zoo in Japan. Soon after, moma and papa Gappa start smashing Tokyo looking for their kidnapped child.

Gappa, the Triphibian Monster

1967

Yuganda tsuki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yuganda tsuki

1959

Stardust Wharf poster
8.0

Hamada, Izumi, and Aki Jo, a rising singer from Toshiba Records, form a fresh trio who risk their youthful energy to bravely confront violence in this bright and cheerful coming-of-age action film.

Stardust Wharf

1968

Thirteen Times a Loser poster
NR

Mineoka Group executive Okitsu Seiji is imprisoned for the 13th time for attacking rival Kuronuma. While in prison, he learns that the Kuronuma Group has retaliated by killing its leader and seizing territory. Upon his release, he embarks on a revenge campaign.

Thirteen Times a Loser

1969

Song of a Traveller poster
NR

A crime film released in 1962

Song of a Traveller

1962

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger poster
8.0

When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.

Ryuji, the Gun Slinger

1960

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards! poster
6.7

Tajima is a private detective in charge of his own company, Detective Bureau 2-3. When warring criminal gangs go overboard by robbing U.S. military munitions, Tajima steps in to stop what the cops can't.

Detective Bureau 2-3: Go to Hell, Bastards!

1963

Secret Zone of Tokyo poster
NR

The third installment of the "Night front line" series. An erotic entertainment action in which two young men come to Tokyo and meet face-to-face with a nocturnal organization that controls women with sex and violence.

Secret Zone of Tokyo

1971

Outlaw: Heartless poster
6.8

Goro Fujikawa (Tetsuya Watari) was indebted to Mitsugimoto. Sawada, a low rank yakuza with a gambling problem owed Mitsugimoto three million yen. This equation can only lead to one answer. Mitsugimoto needs to pay and Goro's coming to collect.

Outlaw: Heartless

1968

Call My Black Dice poster
NR

The wandering gambler (Akira Kobayashi) once again picks up the dice he forswore in order to take revenge of the gangsters who exploit good citizens. The second installment in The Gambler series.

Call My Black Dice

1964

Wandering Song poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wandering Song

1966

Kōkōsei burai hikae: Kanjirū Muramasa poster
NR

Based on the comic by Kazuo Koike

Kōkōsei burai hikae: Kanjirū Muramasa

1973

Lost Virgin poster
7.0

Story of a nineteen-year-old office girl who loses her virginity.

Lost Virgin

1968

Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler poster
NR

Japanese crime film

Rising Dragon: Soft Skin Gambler

1969

The SAKURA Code poster
2.0

Cold-blooded obligations and loyalty in the gambler's world.

The SAKURA Code

1969

A Torrent of Life poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

A Torrent of Life

1962

Rainy Night Duel poster
8.0

Masahiko Koseki, a judo master, gets in several fights as a result of protecting a young woman. Despite his success, Koseki is expelled from his judo school because of his propensity for street fighting. He goes to work for a gangster named Joji, but when he realizes that Joji is mixed up in the slave trade, Koseki helps the police in their attempts to foil Joji.

Rainy Night Duel

1956

Black Strait poster
10.0

Newly out of prison after killing his boss' rival, Akio Maki is eager to move on and start a new life with the boss' daughter. However, the chains of the past are not so easily broken and Maki is soon ordered to kill again.

Black Strait

1964

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be poster
NR

Comedy about a young man who causes pandemonium by raiding a bar patronized by his father, winning the favors of a hostess and ends up feeling the breasts and hips of all the girls in his father's office.

Go As Messy As Messy Can Be

1971

Warehouse No. 3 poster
NR

A musical action film that tells the story of a young saxophonist's fierce struggle against a gang of smugglers and a story of pure love, all accompanied by the sensual voice of Yuri Asakura.

Warehouse No. 3

1958

Kigeki: Hanayome sensô poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kigeki: Hanayome sensô

1971

Quick Draw Joe poster
NR

One day, a lone horseman rides into town with a wounded man strapped behind him. Joe, the Ace, had captured one of the bandits who had held up the armored payroll car headed for the dam construction site, takes the wounded man to the police and claims the reward offered. He is told to wait until the driver of the armored car returns to identify the bandit and goes over to the Blue Star where he is introduced to Mishima, the owner of the cabaret, who is highly respected in the town. Joe then meets Saburo, while fishing, and his lovely sister, who seem to sense the real man beneath the rough appearance and take him into their home. Word reaches Joe that the bandit he'd captured had been shot and he hurries over to the hospital.

Quick Draw Joe

1961

Volcano Wind poster
NR

An airplane loaded with 50 million yen for the reconstruction of Amami Oshima crashes en route from Kagoshima, Kyushu, but neither the money nor the remains of the pilot can be found.

Volcano Wind

1960

The Black Scar poster
NR

A yakuza frames another yakuza who goes to jail for 5 years. When he is released he goes to seek revenge only to fall in love with the daughter of the man who framed him.

The Black Scar

1961

Rusty Pendant poster
NR

1967 Japanese movie

Rusty Pendant

1967

Yoru no chōsen-sha poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Yoru no chōsen-sha

1961

Traveling Alone with a Guitar poster
NR

In the third movie of the Gambler series, the Wandering Gambler is defeated by a cheat that he cannot expose and his dice hand is crushed. Now the gamblers pursue each other into Nagano in winter, with a detective hot on their trail.

Traveling Alone with a Guitar

1964

The Drifter from the Sea poster
3.5

Plans to build a touristic hot spring on the island of Izu Oshima run afoul of the Kobe yakuza group, which intends to use the island as a relay base for drug smuggling.

The Drifter from the Sea

1960

Mini-Skirt Lynchers poster
10.0

The group led by Teruko was the most famous in the port city of Yokohama. One day, however, a group claiming the same name as Teruko and her group appeared and began extorting them. The group was led by Rosa, who had come from Hayama. Teruko and the others were taken in by Detective Jitsusei on suspicion of extortion, and were even doused with oil. What saved the day was a witness, a runaway daughter named Toshie. Toshie is a half-sister.

Mini-Skirt Lynchers

1969

Get Over Her poster
NR

An ex-pro boxer makes his living as a drummer in cabaret.

Get Over Her

1959

Ukiyo-e Artist poster
9.0

A portrait of a man trying to become an artist in order to escape from his life as a miserable peasant due to severe annual tribute during the reign of the fifth Tokugawa Shogun Tsunayoshi.

Ukiyo-e Artist

1968

Inn of the Floating Weeds poster
8.0

Young gangster wannabe is framed for a murder and sent to prison.

Inn of the Floating Weeds

1957

Shameless School poster
5.0

Comedy of high school where students and teachers run wild, based on a popular comic strip.

Shameless School

1970

Nuki uchi fūraibō poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Nuki uchi fūraibō

1962

The Rambler Rides Again poster
10.0

In this fifth episode of the "Wataridori" series, Taki Shinji (Kobayashi Akira) drifts north to Hokkaido, where he helps protect an Ainu village from unscrupulous land developers.

The Rambler Rides Again

1960

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude poster
8.0

In this outing of Harenchi Gakuen the students undergo a health check after school, but all is not what it seems. Teacher 'Beard Godzilla' has kicked out the infirmary's doctor and taken his place. A trio of students notice the trick and dress up as medical professionals to assist the female portion of the school body. A newspaper has caught wind of this.

Shameless School: Health Check in the Nude

1970

The Return of the Filthy Seven poster
9.0

A 1967 crime film

The Return of the Filthy Seven

1967

Crimson Pistol poster
NR

Wearing a symbol of justice and brotherhood on his waist – a crimson pistol belt, Ace Joe engages in a fight with villains trying to seize the mine.

Crimson Pistol

1961

Chivalrous Pride poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chivalrous Pride

1969

A Man Explodes poster
NR

Kensaku Muro and his father manage a farm in Sakudaira at the foot of the Yatsugatake Mountains. One day Kensuke saves a suicidal woman, Fukiko Uzu, who jumps into a waterfall. Having injured his eyes in the process, he is brought to Tokyo for medical treatment. In Tokyo, Kensaku visits his mother Kaneko who left her son years ago. She now owns an exclusive club and has a son, Isao, with the president of Kobe Concern. Isao plots to steal Kensuke's farm as part of a land development scheme with Fukiko's husband. Without knowing they are blood related, their conflict over the farm intensifies.

A Man Explodes

1959