Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi (山口和彦, Yamaguchi Kazuhiko, born 5 February 1937) is a Japanese film director.^[1]

Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Born	(1937-02-05) 5 February 1937 (age 87) Nagano Prefecture
Occupation	Film director

Career

Born in Nagano Prefecture, Yamaguchi graduated from Waseda University and began working at the Tōei studios in Kyoto.^[2] He directed a number of action movie series in the 1970s and has also helmed many TV movies.^[2]

Filmography

• Delinquent Girl Boss: Blossoming Night Dreams (1970)
• Wandering Ginza Butterfly (1972)
• Gincho Nagaremono: Mesuneko Bakuchi (1972)
• Sister Street Fighter (1974)
• Sister Street Fighter: Hanging by a Thread (1974)
• A Haunted Turkish Bathhouse (1975)^[3][4]
• The Return of the Sister Street Fighter (1975)
• Champion of Death (1975)
• Karate Bearfighter (1975)
• Wolf Guy: Burning Wolf Man (ウルフガイ 燃えろ狼男, Urufugai moeru rōdan) (1975)
• G-Men '75 (1975-82) television series
• Circuit no Ōkami (1977)
• Karate for Life (1977)
• School Wars: Hero (1984) television series

References

1. "山口和彦やまぐち・かずひこ" (in Japanese). allcinema.net. Retrieved 16 December 2010.
2. "Yamaguchi Kazuhiko". Directors Guild of Japan. Archived from the original on 14 August 2011. Retrieved 13 May 2011.
3. 一柳廣孝; 吉田司雄 (2006). ナイトメア叢書 [Nightmare Series] (in Japanese). Vol. 3. 青弓社. p. 129. ISBN 9784787291813.
4. Higuchi, Takafumi (2009). ロマンポルノと実録やくざ映画: 禁じられた70年代日本映画 [Roman Porno and Real Yakuza Movies: Forbidden 70's Japanese Movies] (in Japanese). 平凡社. p. 192. ISBN 9784582854763.