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Kōsaku Yamashita

Director · 73 credits · 2 in highly-rated films

Best known for A Lively Geisha (1970)

Directed movies (72 total, ranked by score)

  1. A Lively Geisha

    1970 · ★ 5.3 (3 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    1

  2. The Domain: Rising Dragon

    1970

    Crime, Drama

    2

  3. Big Time Gambling Boss

    1968 · ★ 7.2 (14 votes)

    Drama, Crime, Thriller

    3

  4. Code Between Brothers

    1966 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Crime, Drama

    4

  5. Japan's Top Gangster

    1973

    Action, Crime

    5

  6. Continental Drifter

    1966

    Crime

    6

  7. Code Between Brothers 2

    1966 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    7

  8. The Viper Brothers: Four and a Half Years in Jail

    1973

    Action, Comedy

    8

  9. Purple Hood: The Secret of The Gold

    1982

    Action, Adventure, Crime

    9

  10. Fate Deals the Card of Death

    1971 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Drama

    10

  11. Showdown of Men 4: Tetsu, the White Tiger

    1968 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Crime, Drama

    11

  12. Minamoto Yoshitsune

    1991 · ★ 5.0 (1 votes)

    12

  13. Code Between Brothers 3

    1966

    13

  14. The Last True Yakuza

    1985 · ★ 4.8 (5 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    14

  15. Red Peony Gambler

    1968 · ★ 7.5 (15 votes)

    Drama, Action, Comedy

    15

  16. The Story of a Man Among Men

    1984 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    16

  17. Father of the Kamikaze

    1974

    War, Drama, History

    17

  18. Code Between Brothers 5

    1967 · ★ 6.5 (4 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    18

  19. Tokugawa Ichizoku no Houkai

    1980

    Drama, History, War

    19

  20. Samurai Geisha

    1969 · ★ 7.5 (2 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    20

  21. Scoundrel

    1968 · ★ 6.5 (2 votes)

    Crime, Drama

    21

  22. Yakuza Ladies Revisited 2

    1993 · ★ 8.0 (2 votes)

    Drama

    22

  23. The Pledge

    1972 · ★ 5.0 (5 votes)

    Drama, Crime

    23

  24. Yokosuka Navy Prison

    1973 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Action

    24

  25. Bloodiest Flower

    1971 · ★ 5.2 (5 votes)

    Drama, Action, Crime

    25

  26. Night Train

    1987 · ★ 1.0 (2 votes)

    Drama

    26

  27. The Man Who Assassinated Ryoma

    1987 · ★ 6.0 (1 votes)

    Drama

    27

  28. Japan's Violent Archipelago: The Keihanshin Murder Corps

    1975

    Crime

    28

  29. The Biggest Gamble

    1969 · ★ 7.0 (1 votes)

    Crime, Drama

    29

  30. Another Way: D-Kikan-Joho

    1988 · ★ 1.0 (1 votes)

    Drama, War, TV Movie

    30

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Aug 31, 2026.