Shigeru Yazaki
Known For & Full Filmography15 Titles
Drama Series - 1983, 16 episodes • as Kanzaki
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • as Mitsuo
Two high school friends. One witnesses the breakup of her family after a brutal home invasion. The other loses her virginity to an African-American soldier. Together they make a vital discovery and exact violent revenge.
Movie - 1980, 2h 15m • as Shimamoto
A newlywed wife suffers the consequences for her husband’s actions when he cheats a customer at his credit company out of a large sum of money.
Drama Series - 1981, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1994, 2h 15m • as Katsuhiro
A delightful and moving coming-of-age story. One summer, three young boys take an increasing interest in an eccentric old man who lives alone in a house surrounded by an overgrown garden. The boys form a bond with the recluse and set about weeding and replanting the garden.
Movie - 1992, 2h 15m • as Judge
An upscale Japanese hotel hires Mahiru Inoue, a lawyer adept at dealing with the Yakuza, to help them rid their hotel of the local gangsters so they can get a contract for a meeting of important foreign officials.
Movie - 1977, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Expelled from her group for losing her virginity, blind travelling musician Orin endures a life of hardship, abuse, and poverty while wandering the countryside, finding brief companionship with an army deserter, and struggling against a society that marginalises her.
Drama Series - 1980, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Shinjo
Deaths in Tokimeki tells the story of a nondescript hitman, in a remote country villa, waiting to carry out a job: the assassination of the leader of a religious cult.
Movie - 1993, 2h 15m • as Bush
A lone-wolf detective known as "The Shark" must navigate hostile territory within both the criminal underworld and his own corrupt department to hunt down a ruthless serial cop-killer in the streets of Shinjuku. Adaptation of the Arimasa Ohsawa novel Shinjuku Shark.
Movie - 1984, 2h 15m • as Yada
The melodramatic story of a pink crew’s tragi-comedic adventures on location. A fictionalized adaptation of set photographer Ichiro Tsuda's 1980 book The Location (Za Rokēshon), an illustrated 229-page document about the cameraman’s experiences with pink cast and crew on the sets of several films produced in the late 1970's.
Movie - 1983, 2h 15m • as Shinichi
A young man tries to overcome the hostility of his girlfriend's father, a tuna fisherman, by getting the father to teach him the trade's secrets.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Masuo Kondô
1979 Nikkatsu Roman Porno film. Senkichi, a middle-aged salaryman, started to feel lonely just by repaying a mortgage. This black humor Roman Porno depicts him with a subtle touch as he tries to gain sex freedom from his wife. Based on a novella by Akio Jissoji.
Movie - 1979, 2h 15m • as Kondô
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1991, 2h 15m • as Tomohiko Shimura
What is the clue that connects the police dormitory bombing case & Keihin canal murder case with the corporate bombing case 17 years ago? Detective Tamori chases a mystery!