Nobuo Nakamura

No Life King (1989)

The story of a group of boys who become transfixed with the latest video game, the Legend Of Life King IV. ...

BU・SU (1987)

Mugiko, an 18-year-old attempts to escape her unhappiness with village life by going to Tokyo to live and work in the geisha house run by her aunt. The daughter of a once great geisha, Mugiko is entitled by blood to train in the geishas' ancient art of cla ...

Tampopo (1985)

In this humorous paean to the joys of food, a pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside shop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, begs them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle-soup making". Inte ...

I Lived, But... (1983)

An extremely lovely tribute to Ozu, on the 20th anniversary of his death. It uses a combination of footage from vintage films and new material (both interviews and Ozu-related locations) shot by Ozu's long-time camera-man (who came out of retirement to wor ...

The Tale of Saikaido (1983)

Set in the Kyushu area of the Edo period. This is a large-length bizarre story that incorporates elements such as mysteries and adventures surrounding hidden gold mines. ...

Golden Partners (1979)

A motorcycle cop and a freelance photographer, having learned the location of 1 billion yen's worth of the Imperial Navy's gold, team up to salvage it. ...

Lullaby to Kill (1977)

Kôsuke Kindaichi, a somewhat peculiar private detective, visits a remote town. He meets a police detective and they start to investigate an old unsolved murder. Then some murders happen. Kindaichi must find out about the past in order to reveal who the mu ...

A Portrait of Shunkin (1976)

Okoto is blind since childhood. Her young servant Sasuke is in love of her. One day Koto is badly scarred on her face. In order to preserve the memory of her once beautiful face, Sasuke takes away his own sight. ...

The Last Song (1975)

Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new life. ...

Submersion of Japan (1973)

A team of geophysicists investigating seismic activity on the seafloor discover that the islands of Japan, after suffering from massive volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, will be pulled into the ocean, killing millions. ...

Internal Sleuth (1973)

When 150 guns are stolen from Iwakuni base and two police officers are shot dead, a detective criminal tries to find out the truth. ...

The Twilight Years (1973)

A woman looks after her father in law. ...

Cross-Currents (1972)

A ryokan maid is on trial for pushing a familiar guest off a cliff to his death. An eager attorney offers to take the case to gain notoriety. ...

Maboroshi no Satsui (1971)

Adaptation of the Shôji Yuki novel. ...

The Militarists (1970)

This tremendous blockbuster hit from 1970, showing the rise to power of Tojo Hideki, is perhaps the most important film to come out of Japan since the 7 Samurai! Interspersed with actual footage dating back to the 1930's and throughout the Great Pacific Wa ...

The Creature Called Man (1970)

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man. ...

Sky Scraper! (1969)

A film about the construction of the Kasumigaseki Building, the first high-rise building in Japan. ...

Futari no Koibito (1969)

The Night of the Seagull (1968)

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress. ...

Two in the Shadow (1967)

A man is involved in a fatal car accident, and though he is blameless, his company transfers him to a remote branch in a small town. Before he leaves, he gives the man's widow a large sum of money that she uses to move back to her hometown. ...

Sodachi zakari (1967)

Japanese movie released on September 30 , 1967 . Produced and distributed by Toho . Color , Toho scope . Running time is 88 minutes. ...

Japan's Longest Day (1967)

Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight ...

Thirst for Love (1967)

A young wealthy widow becomes sexually involved with her father-in-law, while harboring a destructive obsession with the family gardener. ...

The War of the Gargantuas (1966)

Gaira, a humanoid sea beast spawned from the discarded cells of Frankenstein's monster, attacks the shores of Tokyo. While the Japanese military prepares to take action, Gaira's Gargantua brother, Sanda, descends from the mountains to defend his kin. A bat ...

That Complicated Guy (1966)

Melodrama based on a novel by Yukio Mishima. ...

Frankenstein Conquers the World (1965)

During WWII, Germans obtain the immortal heart of Frankenstein's monster and transport it to Japan to prevent it being seized by the Allies. Kept in a Hiroshima laboratory, it is seeming lost when the United States destroys the city with the atomic bomb. Y ...

The Radish and the Carrot (1965)

One day a company executive learns that his younger brother, whom he recommended, embezzled company funds. To save the situation he withdraws his life savings and gives money to his younger brother. ...

Female (1964)

Dogora (1964)

A floating amorphous life-form descends from the atmosphere to consume carbon in the form of diamonds. ...

The Naked Executive (1964)

The executive director of the «Chuo Shoji» company, Hidaka Shiro, is called a "demon of work", but the hostess of the bar calls him "the loneliest person in Japan." He lost his wife ten years ago and has been living as a widower ever since. He plotted to ...

3 Gents in the Snow Country (1964)

Shûe Matsubayashi movie ...

High and Low (1963)

A Yokohama shoe executive faces a wrenching choice when kidnappers mistakenly seize his chauffeur's son but demand the ransom anyway. ...

An Autumn Afternoon (1962)

Widower Shuhei Hirayama's caretaker is his 24-year-old daughter, Michiko. Gradually, he comes to realize that Michiko should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, so he arranges a marriage for her. ...

A Night to Remember (1962)

Seventeen years after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a newspaper reporter looks for the bomb's effects, but everyone seems to have forgotten. He meets a woman who was there when it happened but when they fall in love she isn't able to move on. ...

Mount Hakone (1962)

Japanese drama. ...

Whirlpool of Love (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Structure of Hate (1961)

Drama about two college friends, now working for the same banking firm, torn apart by jealousy over their inequitable positions and love lives. ...

Okoto and Sasuke (1961)

One of Kinugasa's last films--based on the story by Tanizaki Jun'ichirō. ...

City (1961)

The Last War (1961)

A Japanese family is torn apart by the tensions of an avoidable nuclear world war between the superpowers. ...

The Other Woman (1961)

The real mother of the two children of a respectable university professor is not his wife, but his mistress, the hostess of a Ginza bar the family frequents. ...

Blind Devotion (1961)

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke. ...

Late Autumn (1960)

A woman and her daughter are each forced to contend with an increasing pressure to marry, particularly from three men who knew her late husband. ...

The False Student (1960)

A youth drama set in a Japanese university which is home to a group of active, leftist students. ...

The Bad Sleep Well (1960)

In this loose adaptation of "Hamlet," illegitimate son Kôichi Nishi climbs to a high position within a Japanese corporation and marries the crippled daughter of company vice president Iwabuchi. At the reception, the wedding cake is a replica of their corp ...

The Twilight Story (1960)

In this Japanese drama, a village girl goes to Tokyo and becomes a sex worker to support her ailing mother. While there she meets an unmarried teacher (at least he says he's unmarried) and falls in love. ...

The Lost Alibi (1960)

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his lover, he runs into a neighbor who is later accused of murder. Questioned by police about the neighbor, and ...

The Rokumeikan (1959)

TV drama based off the play of the same name by Yukio Mishima. ...

The Beast Shall Die (1959)

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his mother with a younger man. ...

The Cast-Off (1959)

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the r ...

The Human Condition I: No Greater Love (1959)

After handing in a report on the treatment of Chinese colonial labor, Kaji is offered the post of labour chief at a large mining operation in Manchuria, which also grants him exemption from military service. He accepts and moves with his newlywed wife Mich ...

The Days of Evil Women (1958)

The common-law wife and daughter of a wealthy old man plot to murder him and steal his fortune, with the help of their male acquaintances. ...

Equinox Flower (1958)

Wataru's outwardly liberal views on marriage are severely tested when his daughter declares her love for a coworker and is adamant to live her own way, instead of agreeing to an arranged marriage. Outwitted by his female relatives, Hirayama stubbornly refu ...

Little Peach (1958)

Anzukko (Little Peach) is the daughter of a successful writer. She turns down each one of her suitors, until she marries a beginning writer named Ryokichi. Their life quickly sinks into despair. ...

Advance Patrol (1957)

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find ou ...

Secret of Naruto (1957)

From the pen of Yoshikawa Eiji comes this exciting story. The Naruto Strait separates Tokushima from the islands of Awaji and Honshu. On Tokushima the mad lord dreams of conquest and forges a bloody revolt against the Tokugawa shogunate. A mysterious sword ...

Half Human: The Story of the Abominable Snowman (1957)

An American scientist tells two colleagues about the finding of an abominable snowman living in the Japanese alps, where it is worshipped by a remote tribe as a god, and how it was discovered by modern man after it raided a skiers shelter following an aval ...

Tokyo Twilight (1957)

Two sisters find out the existence of their long-lost mother, but the younger cannot accept the fact that she was abandoned as a child. ...

Night Butterflies (1957)

A traditional bar mistress in Kyoto clashes with her Tokyo rival. ...

Throne of Blood (1957)

Returning to their lord's castle, samurai warriors Washizu and Miki are waylaid by a spirit who predicts their futures. When the first part of the spirit's prophecy comes true, Washizu's scheming wife, Asaji, presses him to speed up the rest of the spirit' ...

Flowing (1956)

Otsuta is running the geisha house Tsuta in Tokyo. Her business is heavily in debt. Her daughter Katsuyo doesn't see any future in her mother's trade in the late days of Geisha. But Otsuta will not give up. This film portraits the day time life of geisha w ...

Will-o'-the-Wisp (1956)

Punishment Room (1956)

Shimada is a student of U College. When the college's baseball team wins the day, he and his friend Ito drug two girls they met at the game. ...

Farewell to Dream (1956)

A coming-of-age story portrayed as the loss of all youthful illusions. Sixteen-year-old Yoichi dreams of becoming a sailor. His parents are fishmongers, and Yoichi lives together with them and his four siblings in cramped living conditions. His beloved you ...

Early Spring (1956)

A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair. ...

I Live in Fear (1955)

An aging foundry patriarch, gripped by terror of nuclear annihilation, tries to uproot his family to Brazil. When they petition to have him declared incompetent, a family-court counselor witnesses his obsession slide into ruin—and asks whether ignoring t ...

The Romance of Yushima (1955)

Hayase, a schoolteacher, assists Sakai in editing a German-Japanese dictionary. Hayase owes much to Sakai, as Sakai raised him for 13 years after Hayase lost his parents in a war. Hayase has been secretly married to Otsuta, a former geisha, and has been un ...

Beast Man Snow Man (1955)

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman. ...

Yukiko (1955)

Tomoshibi (1954)

Students in a small rural school love their poor but unconventional teacher Mr. Matsukuma, although he is misunderstood by most of the villagers and is forced to leave. After his departure there is great depression, but there is a chance to rekindle the la ...

Itsuko to sono haha (1954)

An elderly woman devoted to her foster-daughter searches for a good husband for her. ...

An Inlet of Muddy Water (1953)

A Japanese woman writes down three stories she has witnessed or heard of in her diary, each about the difficult situation a young woman finds herself in. ...

Tokyo Story (1953)

The elderly Shukishi and his wife, Tomi, take the long journey from their small seaside village to visit their adult children in Tokyo. Their elder son, Koichi, a doctor, and their daughter, Shige, a hairdresser, don't have much time to spend with their ag ...

The Blue Revolution (1953)

Sunflower Girl (1953)

Young Setsuko Fujino begins a new job at Tokyo Chemical Company. She likes her boss, Ippei Hitachi, and enjoys serving him tea, despite the fact that her fellow workers think the women employees should not have to act in such a servile manner. When the wom ...

Ikiru (1952)

Kanji Watanabe is a middle-aged man who has worked in the same monotonous bureaucratic position for decades. Learning he has cancer, he starts to look for the meaning of his life. ...

Doctor's Day Off (1952)

Having completed the first year at his new medical practice, a doctor plans to relax on his day off. However, it is not to be: on this hectic day a man just back from the war front visits the doctor with a medical emergency, followed by a woman who claims ...

Freedom School (1951)

Minamimura, who had always wanted to be free, suddenly quits his job. His hardworking wife is surprised and angry, and throws him out of the house. Confused by his sudden freedom, Iosuke ends up living as a vagrant under a bridge. His wife, Komako, also fi ...

A Descendant of Urashima Taro (1946)

Reputedly based on Frank Capra's 1939 film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, A Descendant of Tarô Urashima is about a repatriated soldier who becomes populist politician in the Japanese Happiness Party. ...