Fluent in several languages and trained as a dancer, Yamanouchi moved to Europe in the early 1970's and embarked on an acting and performance career. At first in small roles in B films and as a stage actor, he eventually progressed into more and more international productions and even a few big budget Hollywood films such as PUSH, THE WAY BACK, and THE LIFE AQUATIC.

Filmography

• 2025Make a Wish — Eisuke
• 2025Milarepa — Yuguntun
• Sandokan — Tuwak Balau
• 2025The Last Redemption — The Griso
• The Decameron — Old Peasant
• 2023Iron Fighter — Alpha
• 2023Luka — The Duke
• 2023The Land of Women — Mamoto
• 2022Gli speciali — Maestro Jun
• 2021Fellini Forward — Admiral
• 2021Medium — Hung
• 2021They Talk — Prof. Hasegawa
• 2020Paangshu — Alieno
• 2020White Flowers
• 2019Hard Night Falling — Goro
• 2018La Fuitina Sbagliata — Japanese Consul
• 2018San Valentino Stories — Monaco buddista (segment "Per amor di Dio")
• 2017Addio fottuti musi verdi — Yang
• 2017The Slider — Goro Nagano
• 2016Al posto tuo — acquirente giapponese
• 2016The Confessions
• 2016Zoolander 2 — Wise Village Man
• 2015Doppia luce
• 2015Earth
• Il Bosco — Mr. Miong
• 2014A Boss in the Living Room — Maestro di meditazione
• Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist — Senzô
• 2014Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist The Movie — Senzô
• 2013Colpi di fortuna — Narambaatar (segment "Non è vero ma ci credo")
• 2013Nothing Can Stop Us Now — Mr. Lee
• 2013Something Good — Chimico di laboratorio
• 2013The Wolverine — Ichiro Yashida / Silver Samurai
• 2012Sins — Hal
• 2012The Day of the Siege: September Eleven 1683 — Murad Giray
• 2011All at Sea — Confù
• Dove la trovi una come me? — Mister Woo
• 2010Gorbaciof — Padre di Lila
• 2010Tarda estate
• 2010The Way Back — Official
• 2009Push — Pop Father
• 2008Questa notte è ancora nostra — Laowang
• 2007Tutte le donne della mia vita — Sakè
• Inspector Coliandro — Lu Yang
• 2004Last Food
• 2004The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou — Chief Pirate
• 2001All the Knowledge in the World — Maggiordomo Al Farid
• Father Matteo — Guillermo Rivarola
• 1999A Fish in Love — Console tailandese
• 1999Tutti gli uomini del deficiente — Japanese CEO
• 1998L'elefante bianco — Lo Yan
• 1997Banzai — poliziotto giapponese
• 1997Nirvana — Psicologo Okasama Starr
• 1997Rack Up — Wang Yu
• 1995The Fishmen and Their Queen — Priest
• Italian Restaurant — Ciun-Lì
• 1993Craving Desire — (as Hal Yamanoughi)
• 1992A Bear Called Arthur
• 1990Robot Jox — Tubie #1 (as Hal Yomanouchi)
• 1989Bangkok... One Way — Captain Luang
• 1989Sinbad of the Seven Seas — Samurai
• 1989The House of Lost Souls — Buddhist Monk
• Una casa a Roma
• 1988Phantom of Death — Swordmaster
• 1988The New Gladiators
• 1988Treno di panna — Cormal
• Treasure Island in Outer Space — Shadow
• 1987Under the Chinese Restaurant
• 19867 Kilos in 7 Days — il domestico cinese
• 1986The Lone Runner — Nimbus, Skorm's henchman
• 1985Anche lei fumava il sigaro...
• Christopher Columbus — Guacanabo
• 1985Joan Lui — Jarak
• 1984Warriors of the Year 2072 — Akira
• 19832019: After the Fall of New York — Rat Eater King, Stunts
• 19832020 Texas Gladiators — Red Wolf
• 1983Endgame — Ninja
• 1983Hearts and Armour — Samurai
• 1983Sing Sing — Chu Lai
• 1982The Sword of the Barbarians — Li Wo Twan
• 1980The Last Hunter — Vietcong
• 1979Saturday, Sunday and Friday — venditore di orologi (episodio "Sabato")
• 1979The Humanoid — Humanoid Soldier
• 1977Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals — Manolo (uncredited)
• 1975Fantozzi: White Collar Blues — Japanese Cook (uncredited)
• 1974The Green Hornet — Jimmy Kee
• Aeternum
• Il ponte della vita — Belial
• Mnemonix — Prof. Keiuchi Watanabe
• Spie per caso - Missione Tokyo
• Welcome back Yukiko — Seiji

Appearances as themselves (2)

• 2019Spaghetti alla Martino — Self
• 2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 — Self