Filmography from Shigeru Yokoyama

Actor :

Chokugeki! Jigoku ken, Teruo Ishii, 1974
Three street toughs are hired to take down a Tokyo drug dealer in this hard-hitting Toei karate action film....

Bôryoku gai, Hideo Gosha, 1974
A first cursory look at VIOLENT STREETS makes it seem that Hideo Gosha reverted back to the programme genre pictures out of which emerged as a bonafide auteur and stylistic visionary five years earlier with bold ambitious jidaigekis like GOYOKIN and HITOKIRI, this time treading ground he never did before in his career, the yakuza picture. Looking closer it becomes obvious that VIOLENT STREETS is both. A genre picture and a stylistic exercise....

Zeroka no onna: Akai wappa, Yukio Noda, 1974
...

Zenka onna: Koroshi-bushi, Atsushi Mihori, 1973
Reiko Ike stars as the daughter of a man who has been pushed into drug dealing by the local Yakuza mob. Having outlived his usefulness to the gang he is murdered and Reiko is gang raped, leading her to attempt a knife attack on the Yakuza boss (Ryoji Hayama) at a swank nightclub. Failing to kill him she ends up in prison, where she befriends a crew of other malcontents (including Yumiko Katayama and Chiyoko Kazama) and meets the Yakuza boss's...

Joshû sasori: Dai-41 zakkyo-bô, Shun'ya Itô, 1972
Matsu, known to the prisoners as Scorpian, is locked away in the bowels of the prison as revenge for disrupting the smooth operation of the prison and for her disfiguring attack on the warden. Granted a one day reprieve due to the visit of a dignitary, she takes advantage and attacks the warden again. This leads to more brutal punishment and humiliation. But the punishment gives her an oppurtunity to escape along with six other female prisoners....