Eizō Yamagiwa

Ultraman Taro: The Blood-Sucking Flower Is a Young Girl's Spirit

Theatrical version of episode 11 of Ultraman Taro TV series : ZAT is on the case of a series of vampiric murders. While investigating, Kotaro meets a mysterious orphan girl, Kanae, who is always holding a bunch of red flowers. While he is out, Kenichi and Moriyama are attacked by a mysterious plant...

Ultraman Taro: Burn On! The 6 Ultra Brothers

Theatrical version of episode 25 of Ultraman Taro TV series.

Ultraman Taro: Like the Sun, Mother of Ultra

Theatrical version of episode 1 of the 'Ultraman Taro' TV series.

The End of Love

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

Twilight Saloon

Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama.