Biography
Born in Nagano Prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Waseda University and began working at the Tōei studios in Kyoto. He directed a number of action movie series in the 1970s and has also helmed many TV movies.
Complete Filmography

Moon Angel
1996
Director
Two female truck drivers detest each other, and try to steal each other's business. Their rigs are both painted with elaborate large pictures of beaut...

チンピラ・ドリーム チャラで死ねるか!
1995
Director
Three men and a woman are connected by a strange encounter.

Der Lindenbaum
1988
Director
A young woman, Asami, searches for the man who helps her quest to enter medical school.

Big Magnum Kuroiwa
1985
Director
Kuroiwa, a high school teacher who carries a “Big Magnum 44” gun is sent to a school that is full of violence. Can Kuroiwa reform the students with th...

Kanei Command Performance
1983
Director
During the reign of Shogun Iemitsu, a great martial arts tournament was held to determine whether or not Iemitsu was to remain in power or cede it to ...

The Tragedy in the Devil-Mask Village
1978
Director
Tarao’s services are called upon to solve the mysterious death of bride-to-be, Mariko, who was found dead with an eerie mask of a devil.

The Extravagant Cops
1977
Director

The Circuit Wolf
1977
Director, Screenplay
Car mechanic Yuya (Shinya Fubuki) dreams of becoming a race driver. His daily routine – working with cars, and collecting pictures of his idol Niki La...

Karate for Life
1977
Director
The last of the Masutatsu Oyama trilogy. Oyama takes a job as a professional wrestler in Okinawa, but when he discovers that he is expected to take a ...

Which Is Stronger, Karate or the Tiger?
1976
Director
Yasuaki Kurata plays a masked ring brawler who is out for revenge against an evil, megalomaniac entrepreneur played by Japan's most reliable bad guy o...

The Karate Professionals
1976
Director

Karate Warriors
1976
Director
Sakata protects a little boy while coping with rival gangs.

Karate Bear Fighter
1975
Director
Masutatsu Oyama is recruited by his former Army friend to work for a crew of gangsters, but when they kill both his girlfriend and his best friend, Oy...

The Return of Sister Street Fighter
1975
Director
When Koryu's childhood friend Shurei is abducted by gangsters, the desperate young woman recruits a female martial artist and a tough-as-nails strange...

Karate Bullfighter
1975
Director
Sonny Chiba plays Kyokushin Karate founder Masutatsu Oyama, who unexpectedly arrives at a karate tournament in rags, but wins the tournament. After t...

Wolf Guy
1975
Director
Akira Inugami is the only survivor of a clan of ancient werewolves who relies on his supernatural powers to solve mysterious crimes. After a series of...

A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse
1975
Director
A sly gangster hatches a plot against his own wife, who works at a brothel-cum-bathhouse, with the help of the bathhouse owner’s wife.

Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread
1974
Director
Koryu heads to Yokohama in search of a woman named Birei, kidnapped by diamond smugglers who move their hot rocks by surgically implanting them into t...

Sister Street Fighter
1974
Director
Li Mansei is a martial-arts champion turned undercover agent. When he is captured by a drug lord, his sister Li Koryu turns to his former martial-arts...

Oh Wonderful Utamaro!
1974
Director

Neon Jellyfish: Shinjuku Flower Streetcar
1973
Director, Writer
17 year old naïve country girl Emiko Yamauchi has a hash wakeup call when she’s welcomed to Tokyo by a bunch of rapey hoods. Fast forward past the ope...

A Woman’s Road
1973
Director
Poor Yoko knows she is getting played and used by a playboy, but she loves him with all her heart and soul.

Wandering Ginza Butterfly: She-Cat Gambler
1972
Screenplay, Director
Meiko Kaji reprises her role as Nami, a vengeful female gang leader, in the second installment of this high-action series that casts a new actor -- ma...

Wandering Ginza Butterfly
1972
Screenplay, Director
Gang leader Nami (cult film legend Meiko Kaji) kills a member of a yakuza group and goes away to prison. Upon her release three years later, she’s a s...

Troops of Darkness
1971
Screenplay, Director
A disgraced yakuza member, framed for the murder of his boss, emerges from prison eight years later with revenge on his mind.

Delinquent Girl Boss: Worthless to Confess
1971
Director, Screenplay
Reiko Oshida stars as a young wannabe gangster tough girl, just released from reform school. She tracks down one of her classmates fathers, who runs a...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Ballad of Yokohama Hoods
1971
Director, Screenplay
The local yakuza gangs dominating the port of Yokohama do not take well the invasion of their territory by a daring biker gang, led by a girl in black...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Tokyo Drifters
1970
Writer, Director
After helping a pregnant girl escape from their reform school and facing the resulting punishment, a clique of delinquent girls eventually reunites a ...

Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams
1970
Director, Screenplay
Rika is released from girls detention school and then winds up at a lounge bar where she finds her other classmates working. This lounge bar is run by...

Brutal Tales of Chivalry 6
1969
Assistant Director
This is the sixth film in the Brutal Tales of Chivalry series

The Bad Guy Blues
1969
Assistant Director
A story about club hostesses in Osaka.

I Sell My Husband
1968
Assistant Director
Japanese comedy film.

Express Train
1967
Assistant Director
Atsumi Kiyoshi, famous for his role in Torasan, stars as Aoki Goichi, a veteran train conductor who dedicates himself in providing quality service to ...