Mansai Nomura

What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister (2024)

In the year 2020, when Covid-19 is rapidly spreading around the world, chaos ensues and people's daily lives are completely upended. A virus outbreak suddenly occurs at the prime minister's office in Japan. This leads to the prime minister's sudden death. ...

Revolver Lily (2023)

In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was murdered and holds the key to finding a large sum of money reported missing by the Imperial Japanese Army. But ...

The Living Tradition of Nomura Kyogen: From Mansaku to Mansai to Yuki (2022)

A new documentary film on traditional culture, planned and produced by the Pola Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Culture, has been completed. The 50th film presents the essence of Kyogen, which transcends the generations of Mansaku Nomura, Mansa ...

Promise of Death (2021)

Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo. She acts like a tyrant around her children, who are afraid of her and are at her beck and call. Unfortunately ...

Kono atari no mono (2020)

Documentary by film director Isshin Inudo on three generations of the Nomura family of the Izumi school of Kyogen: Mansaku Nomura (89), Mansai (54), and Yuki (20). Summer of 2020. Yuki is to play an important role in the future of Kyogen. He will play fou ...

OKINA: Dance of Life (2020)

Whistleblower (2019)

A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret. ...

The Three Generations of the Nomura Kyogen Family (2018)

The three generations of the Nomura family - Mansaku, Mansai and Yuki - who carry the 650-year history of Kyogen and pass it on to the future, perform the ultimate difficult piece, Sanbaso, in Paris. The film follows the 'challenge' of the three generation ...

Flower and Sword (2017)

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's rule makes life difficult for the people. Monk Senko Ikenobo is a master of flower arrangement. He prays for ...

Shin Godzilla (2016)

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a fore ...

Scanner (2016)

Air Bound (2015)

Gamba, a town mouse with a brave spirit decides to go on an adventure to discover the ocean. On his way, he meets a troubled child mouse, Chuta. He says his family and other mice on a nearby island have been killed by a clan of weasels, led by the terrifyi ...

Murder on the Orient Express (2015)

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express". ...

The Wind Rises (2013)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane. ...

The Floating Castle (2012)

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes across unexpected resistance in the form of a floating fortress known as Oshi Castle. Narita Nagachika, a fr ...

Memories of Origin: Hiroshi Sugimoto (2012)

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the winner of many prestigious awards and his photographs are sold for millions of yen at overseas auctions. The f ...

What the War Meant (2008)

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war criminal. The story's theme is said to be a look at how the Pacific War began, focusing mostly on the three month ...

Onmyoji II (2003)

A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Japanese nobles. ...

Onmyoji (2001)

During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the onmyōji to keep the supernatural forces in line. But as political events become highly charged, friction within the order leads to betrayal. Now, Seim ...

Souten no Yume Shoin to Shinsaku Shin-seiki eno Chosen (2000)

This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yoshida Shōin (吉田 松陰, 1830-1859) was one of the most distinguished intellectuals in the closing days of the Tokugawa shogunate. He devoted to developi ...

Ran (1985)

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons. ...

Tiger Cave (2023)

A story of a lonely man with motifs from Hamlet and Sangetsuki. One day, The man hears a mysterious voice. ...

Actors Short Films Season 3 (2023)

WOWOW Actors Short Films Season 3 ...

Shin Godzilla (2016)

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of volunteers cuts through a web of red tape to uncover the monster's weakness and its mysterious ties to a fore ...