Yuji Makiguchi

Directing

Yuji Makiguchi

Born — Died

1936-06-29 — 2021-12-05

Place of birth

Itabashi Ward, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

25 titles

Yuji Makiguchi was known as an Director, Assistant Director, Writer, and Screenplay.

Known for

Oxen Split Torturing poster
5.8

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori. The second follows Sutezo who, forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, befriends a young girl. Together, they both escape and struggle to get by on scams and petty theft.

Oxen Split Torturing

1976

Confessions of Lady Mantis poster
3.8

Midori Satsuki stars as a serial seducer who destroys one man’s life after another. Finally she seduces a professional killer, with disastrous consequences.

Confessions of Lady Mantis

1975

Nuns That Bite poster
5.9

A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.

Nuns That Bite

1977

Virgin Breaker Yuki poster
4.8

Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker." She's the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it's her job to break them in for future clients. The film finds Yuki involved with a group of political rebels and anarchists after the Peace Preservation Law was passed in 1925 and walks a fine line between black humor and severe cruelty.

Virgin Breaker Yuki

1975

The Story of a Geisha poster
7.0

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

The Story of a Geisha

1977

Jorogumo poster
8.0

Disguised as a brothel guard in a lawless town, a deadly female swordswoman with a dark supernatural secret hunts the man who murdered her mother—but when innocent children become pawns in a deadly trap, she must risk everything to exact her revenge and confront the monster within.

Jorogumo

1996

Behind the camera

Oxen Split Torturing poster
5.8

Two short stories set in Edo during the Shogun era. The first, during a time when Christians are persecuted vehemently, Iori falls in love with a young Christian girl. When she and her family are captured during a raid, his sadistic master takes her as his personal slave to torment Iori. The second follows Sutezo who, forced to serve the barbarous master of a brothel in order to repay his debts, befriends a young girl. Together, they both escape and struggle to get by on scams and petty theft.

Oxen Split Torturing

1976

Confessions of Lady Mantis poster
3.8

Midori Satsuki stars as a serial seducer who destroys one man’s life after another. Finally she seduces a professional killer, with disastrous consequences.

Confessions of Lady Mantis

1975

Nuns That Bite poster
5.9

A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.

Nuns That Bite

1977

Virgin Breaker Yuki poster
4.8

Based on a manga by Kosuke Miki and Tadashi Matsumori, this film follows the adventures of Yuki, who works in a Kyoto red-light district house of ill repute as a "tamawari," or "virgin-breaker." She's the gal who gets first dibs on the new recruits to the brothel (some willing, some not), and it's her job to break them in for future clients. The film finds Yuki involved with a group of political rebels and anarchists after the Peace Preservation Law was passed in 1925 and walks a fine line between black humor and severe cruelty.

Virgin Breaker Yuki

1975

The Story of a Geisha poster
7.0

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

The Story of a Geisha

1977

The Story of a Geisha poster
7.0

In the year 1873, a Japanese woman is sold as a mistress to an American diplomat stationed in Japan.

The Story of a Geisha

1977

Jorogumo poster
8.0

Disguised as a brothel guard in a lawless town, a deadly female swordswoman with a dark supernatural secret hunts the man who murdered her mother—but when innocent children become pawns in a deadly trap, she must risk everything to exact her revenge and confront the monster within.

Jorogumo

1996

Decapitation of an Evil Woman poster
6.2

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.

Decapitation of an Evil Woman

1977

Decapitation of an Evil Woman poster
6.2

An unusual blending of elements comes together in this crime story drawn from Japanese history. During the early Meiji period a number of “Dokufu” (Poison Women) committed a significant number of murders. These crimes were most often committed by wives on their husbands in order to be together with their lovers. At that time women were executed in the same manner as men, to wit: by being decapitated. This is the story of the most notorious of all, Takahashi Oden who, in 1879, was the last woman executed by decapitation in Japan.

Decapitation of an Evil Woman

1977

The Yakuza Code Still Lives poster
8.0

After spending eight years in prison for murder, Hiroshi leaves his yakuza family to start a new life as a labor racketeer.

The Yakuza Code Still Lives

1976

The Most Perverted Post War Crimes poster
5.7

Reconstruction, in the form of episodes, of the most bizarre crimes that occurred in Japan after World War II.

The Most Perverted Post War Crimes

1976

Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke poster
NR

Takahashi Hideki stars as Muyonosuke, the one-eyed ronin who makes his living as a bounty hunter who is on a never-ending quest to find the man who murdered his father. The usually aloof Muyonosuke, who never would pause to help the common man winds up befriending an orphan boy and a mysterious woman, and getting involved in a feud between two families, but finds out there is a high power behind the curtain who pulls their strings.

Bounty Hunter Muyonosuke

1990

Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle poster
NR

The Shogun gets engaged to a princess who rebels against the prospect, because she wasn't consulted.

Abarenbo Shogun: The Bride of Edo Castle

1991

No artwork available
NR

An office worker who releases his frustrations by maliciously bullying his good-natured boss has a bizarre experience in a mountain hut.

Bullying is Costly

1986

No artwork available
NR

On their way to the Owari, Sanzo and Yumenogosuke gets lost in the Kiso Mountains. There they encounter a hidden gold mine being demolished by the Mino Naegi clan. The two join a beautiful girl named Tsubakuro Osen, whom they meet in the mountains to extort the Nabeki clan. They reach an agreement with Kageyama Taito to receive 300 ryo in three days but suddenly the Naeki clan is stripped of its power by the authorities... a plot set in motion by Sakai Wakasamori and Saegusa Kanmotsu.

Ninja Gangsters IV: The Mysterious Golden Castle

1983

No artwork available
NR

Tajibee, a cockfighting expert from Kawachi, and Kitahachi, a carpenter from Edo, survive a shipwreck near Beppu. They rescue Sakamoto Ryoma from masked samurai, and he entrusts them with a secret letter for Saigo Takamori of Satsuma. A shogunate spy, Chizou, overhears and pursues them. Along the way, a pickpocket named Okoma steals their wallet and the letter. When they finally deliver the letter in Satsuma, they realize it was a decoy to mislead the enemy.

The Buddy: Yaji and Kita

1982

Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District poster
NR

The sequel depicts Yuki's love affair with a young brothel owner who was once a Noh singer, and his complicated relationship with a woman who follows him around. Their love triangle nearly dissolves in Yuki's favour, but takes a sudden turn after an intervention of a perverted painter who believes in fatalism.

Virgin Breaker Yuki II: Western Licensed District

1976

Shogun's Harem: The Mansion of Evil Spirits poster
5.0

In the era of the ninth shogun, Ieshige, the Ooku of Edo Castle was a world of only women, with Tokiwa at the head and numbering up to a thousand. The town girl Otoshi catches the eye of Oitsu-no-kata and is brought into the Ooku. Oitsu receives the favor of Ieshige and is blessed with an heir, but Oko-no-kata resents Oitsu to the point of wanting to curse her to death. At that time, rumors of an evil spirit in the unopened room spread throughout the Ooku.

Shogun's Harem: The Mansion of Evil Spirits

1981

No artwork available
NR

Sawatari Shusui saved Princess Hiroko of the Konoe family, who was about to be married to Tokugawa Tsunatoyo. However, Hiroko, a tomboy, disappears. As someone is after Hiroko's life, Shusui pursues her whereabouts... Meanwhile, Sasao Yoshinari and Shusui's sister, Kikuji, who were following Shusui, meet a young man and Kikuji is captivated by him, but they do not realize that he is Hiroko in disguise as a young man. Shusui is set to search for Hiroko with her attendant Orui, but that night they are attacked by a group of ninjas at their inn.

The Notorious Bored Samurai 5

1990

No artwork available
NR

Sanzo and Yumenogosuke are now traveling pretending to be a merchant and bodyguard in Edo. They are arrested on their way to Nakamura Castle in Oshu. The 30-odd members of the daimyo's procession, led by the lord of the Soma Nakamura clan is said to have left Iitate near the border in the morning and then have disappeared. Iwase Danjo, the feudal lord in control of the domain is preventing the news to leak out... and Sanzo and Gosuke are almost executed in prison to keep them from talking.

Ninja Gangsters III: The Missing Daimyo Procession

1983

No artwork available
NR

Taeko, who last saw her missing grandmother, could not forget the white gloves of the cab driver. The driver was a very creepy old man...

Vehicle Shadows, Messengers of the Dead

1988

Grave of the Ooku Spirits poster
NR

The family was destroyed by the Tokugawa clan before the founding of Edo, and when Ietsuna destroyed the shrine, it began to be haunted. The ghost of a woman haunts Yajima-no-Kyoku and tries to kill her and her son, but the heart of a man overcomes the ghost.

Grave of the Ooku Spirits

1984

Samurai Rebellion poster
NR

Echizen Fukui Domain. Futago Rokubei, who backs down even at the sight of a gecko, is called "Coward Samurai" by others. His sister Kane blames him for not having any marriage proposals. One day, the lord's martial arts instructor, Nito Kouken, kills one of the lord's attendants, Kano, and flees, leading the angry lord to issue an order to kill him. However, there is no one in the domain who can match the swordsmanship of Nito. Rokubei, in order to clear his long-standing dishonor, volunteers to be the one to kill Nito and sets out on the journey, leaving behind Kane who tries to stop him in tears.

Samurai Rebellion

1987

源氏九郎颯爽記 秘剣揚羽の蝶 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

源氏九郎颯爽記 秘剣揚羽の蝶

1991

Newlywed Hell poster
NR

The wife of a samurai, who was leading a happy life, dies in a fit of wind. On the verge of death, she makes her husband promise that she will not take a second wife, and is buried in a corner of the garden, as he had wished, but of course the second wife comes. At the celebration, the husband is immediately smitten with his new wife, but the spirit begins to haunt him from the seventh day.

Newlywed Hell

1984