Akira Yamada

Drama Series - 2024, 16 episodes • as Self - Professor of History, Meiji University

With firsthand accounts and access to prominent figures around the world, this comprehensive docuseries explores the Cold War and its aftermath.

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A grieving factory worker storms a Tokyo police station, holding a department chief at gunpoint, convinced he killed his girlfriend. When he learns it’s the wrong Yamamoto, he still refuses to leave and threatens everyone with nitroglycerin. Tension peaks when the real detective’s wife arrives, but a quick intervention stops disaster, leaving the worker broken by loss.

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

A young detective tries to determine whether a mysterious death was the result of murder or self-defense.