Jun Yokoyama
Known For & Full Filmography20 Titles
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A gentle, war-shattered ex-soldier, Kinji Kameda, arrives in wintry Hokkaidō and is pulled into a volatile tangle of love and pity between the disgraced Taeko Nasu, the proud Ayako, and his possessive friend Akama. Kameda’s saintly compassion exposes everyone’s wounds, steering the quartet toward jealousy, violence, and inexorable tragedy. Adapted from Dostoevsky’s novel.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Haruo
Yuki is a young, single mother supporting herself and her son, Haru, with a job as a bar hostess.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A city boy moves to the countryside and the kids there pick on him.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A middle-aged father has just married off his third daughter, but still has his nine year old son to raise whom he resents as he was unwanted.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A pair of blind masseurs, an enigmatic city woman, a lonely man and his ill-behaved nephew—The Masseurs and a Woman is made up of crisscrossing miniature studies of love and family at a remote resort in the mountains. With delicate and surprising humor, Hiroshi Shimizu paints a timeless portrait of loneliness and the human need to connect.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A rural village elder plans an event on the return of a farmer's daughter from the city, unaware that she has become a Westernized burlesque artist.
Movie - 1944, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Though plagued by ill health all his life, a young Japanese man is obligated to fulfill his family's longstanding military tradition.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Taro
A Japanese mountain inn patron's foot is cut by an ornamental hairpin accidentally left behind by a former patron, leading to much curiosity among the other patrons regarding her identity.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Itinerant Entertainer
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims to have been molested. Then a yakuza arrives to ask the doctor to cut his finger off...
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A group of rank-and-file soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a whole.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
During college military training exercises, the bond between two friends and athletic rivals is tested when one of them becomes involved with a woman who may be a prostitute.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Yoshio/Zen
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A wealthy family will not allow the military to grow crops on their fields due to their superstitious beliefs about their son's illness.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Sampei
The brothers of Children In The Wind deal with declining family fortunes: they must work when the father becomes sick, and eventually live with their grandfather, which means making new friends and struggling with a different environment.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Weed with Flowers
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Eiko's younger brother, Tadao
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • as Hideo as a boy
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.
Movie - 1935, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The story focuses on the widower Nemoto, ostensibly a businessman, who has one son, Kanichi, the hero of the title. Nemoto remarries; his new wife is a widow with a son and daughter of her own. However, Nemoto’s business turns out to be out a shady scam, and he disappears, leaving his wife to raise the three children alone. In order to support the family, she is obliged to become a bar hostess. She conceals this shameful employment from the children, but the truth comes out years later, after her daughter is rejected by her husband’s family when they investigate her background.