Senjaku Nakamura

Cinema Kabuki: Fire Brigade Brawl (2017)

A recording of a play based on a quarrel in the late Edo period of Japan. Recorded in May 2012. ...

Jack the Mouse: Noda Version (2005)

Nezumi, Jack the Mouse is a Japanese urban legend. His passion for money drives a cynical, duplicitous coffin maker to take on Nezumi's mantle. In this kaleidoscope of disguise and deception, society's pretenses are destroyed in a melting pot of farce, soc ...

The River Yokobori (1966)

Taka, the daughter of Naniwa-ya, a longtime Osaka store owner, married Kichisaburo Kawashima-ya, the son of a kimono wholesaler. Her husband just tried to play with her like a sweet candy, but Taka fell in love with him. One day, the father-in-law suddenly ...

Yagyu Secret Scrolls: Ninjitsu - Part II (1958)

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for t ...

The Living Koheiji (1957)

The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro. ...

Last Days of the Samurai (1957)

Seppuku Day 17 Ako ronins, including Kuranosuke Oishi, who were entrusted to the Hosokawa family, and the events of the two days before are depicted as a tragic romance between one of the ronins, Jurozaemon Isogai, and Omino. An adaptation of Seika Mayama ...

Yagyu Secret Scrolls (1957)

In the Tokugawa Era, the clan of Lord Yagyu has hidden away three scrolls containing clan secrets which, if revealed, would cause revolution and disaster for the clan. The information is divided among the three scrolls, all of which must be possessed for t ...

Revenge at Jorurizaka 2: Bloody Battle at Dawn (1955)