
February 5, 1937 · 89 years old
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.

A young martial artist is on a mission to rescue her brother who's being held captive by a sadistic drug lord.

A man with a special power attempts to help a cursed woman.

A karate fighter and a samurai join opposing gangs to take them down from the inside.

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.

This movie is based on the true life story of a Korean fighter named Choi Bae-dal (who later changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama), the founder of Kyokushin Karate in Japan.