Zeko Nakamura

Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972)

Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the me ...

Delinquent Street (1972)

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter (1971)

The Gambling Nun (1971)

A young woman, an experienced gambler, enters a nunnery to atone for some of her father's crimes. When the nunnery runs into debt, she resorts to gambling and challenges the racketeer threatening to sell the place to a game. ...

New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape (1971)

Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator. ...

Wolves on Motorcycles (1971)

Hoodlum group helps fishermen against firm polluting their fishing ground. ...

Follow the Girls (1971)

Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers. ...

King of the Widow-Killers (1971)

The third installment of the Emperor series, starring Tatsuo Umemiya as the man who rules the night world. Hiroshi rose through the ranks in Tokyo by fighting with women. However, when he returned to his hometown in Kyushu for his father's memorial service ...

Hajimete no Tabi (1971)

Fun on the Run (1970)

Comedy about five good-for-nothings who run a phony exercise-hall. ...

Hooligans on Buggies (1970)

Rivalry between a hoodlum group and a gangster organization. ...

Rainbow Over Paris (1970)

A young composer falls in love with the beautiful daughter of a wealthy company president and flies to Paris when he learns she is studying music there. But, when he finally wins her after many difficulties, he somehow feels empty, because his spirit has a ...

Madcap Mixup (1969)

Five fellows are taken by the police for bank hold-ups. ...

Girl in College (1969)

Fallen Leaves and Sweet Memories (1969)

Nobuko and five male friends graduate from a high school, promising to remain friends forever. One year later, Nobuko is working as a mediocre actress for TV commercials, and the five men are wearing beards and have formed a psychedelic rock band. One day, ...

Even If Life Withers (1968)

High School Geisha (1968)

A History of the Japanese Underworld (1968)

The hero tries to unite various gangs. ...

Traveling in Party (1967)

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri. ...

The Gambler's Law (1967)

Game of Chance 2 (1967)

Bungo is released from prison to find his son Kenichi in the care of strangers. Teruko, the woman originally looking after the boy, was forced to leave town and sell herself into prostitution. Bungo and Kenichi, in their search for Teruko, arrive in a new ...

A Colt Is My Passport (1967)

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy. ...

Dash to the Sun (1966)

A song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intent ...

The Mad Atlantic (1966)

Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion. Just when the ship has taken a huge catch of tuna in its nets, M ...

Flame and the Code (1966)

An Innocent Witch (1965)

Ayako, a young woman from a rural fishing village, is sold by her family into a brothel when her father takes ill. There, she is quickly stripped of her innocence and illusions. ...

Adventure With Him (1965)

Mitsuo Hayama, who is preparing for his entrance examinations, secretly plans to take a trip with his classmate Akira, alone and undisturbed. Noriko learns of the trip by chance and tells Mitsuo and his friends that she will join them, and they reluctantly ...

Tokyo wa Koisuru (1965)

Akio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, ...

Miyamoto Musashi V: Musashi vs Kojiro (1965)

The fifth and final installment with the build up of the epic battle between Sasaki Kojiro and Miyamoto Musashi. With all the familiar characters making appearances: Otsu (Musashi's great love), Akemi, Matahachi (his former fellow soldier), old lady Osugi ...

Born Under Crossed Stars (1965)

A young man with a strong sense of justice is torn between two girls: the flighty Taneko and the serious Suzuko. With wisdom, courage and honor in a Japanese spirit of manliness he wins the day. ...

Love on the Rainbow (1965)

A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple. ...

Storm Party (1964)

Many outlaws are gathered at the front line of the Japanese Army in a shock troop. ...

Kaze to Ki to Sora to (1964)

A nanny, played by Sayuri Yoshinaga, who lives and works in a Tokyo family, causes all kinds of waves with her outspoken personality and behavior in this charming coming-of-age blockbuster. ...

Dear Mr. Prime Minister (1964)

Kakumaru (Kiyoshi Atsumi) is an unpopular manzai performer who is too good-natured but has a very bad manners. Moulin, Kakumaru's former partner, gained popularity through her comedy routine with his wife Rouge, and in contrast to Kakumaru, she became a po ...

Jolly Barbers (1963)

A Woman's Life (1963)

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son. ...

The Life of a Horse-Trader (1963)

Hokkaido at the end of the Taisho era is Kitami. On the day his wife died of a dystocia, Bakuro Yonetaro fell asleep after being kicked by a sick woman Yuki at a vague shop after violence. ...

Sentimental Mobsters (1963)

A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment! ...

Onna yajikita-tatchi ryokō (1963)

1963 Japanese movie ...

Tale of Ａ Company Boss Pt.５ (1963)

Shimizu Jirocho, the president, manages two businesses: Izumo Kanko-sha and the group inn "Daikokuya." There is a system where customers from Izumo Kanko-sha are directly sent to Daikokuya. President Jirocho learns that the geishas he is fond of, including ...

Itsudemo yume o (1963)

This is a factory area in downtown Tokyo, and Hikaru, nicknamed Pika-chan, is a nurse at the Mihara Clinic, a friend of the poor. ...

Beyond the Green Hills (1963)

Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls ...

Utau abarenbō (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Naite waratta hanayome (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

The Paper Crane (1962)

A wandering vagrant, Hantaro, risks his life to save a beautiful blind girl and her father from con artists. ...

My Hobo (1962)

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who become a most atypical Japanese family. ...

The Body (1962)

The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute. ...

Local Reporter (1962)

Shin kitsune to tanuki (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Get Married, Mother (1962)

The Man With Starry Eyes (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Police Precinct: Landfill No. 19 (1962)

In the former landfill, where construction is currently underway, the corpse of a middle-aged man with an unusual rosary in his hand was dug up. An autopsy showed that the victim was about 40 years old, 170 cm tall, had bad teeth, and had been strangled ab ...

San'nin musume kanpai! (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kyū-chan ondo (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Seikurabe (1962)

Japanese drama film. ...

A Rampage Full of Dreams (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Otoko no Uta (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Hagure kigeki mandara (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Kanbi no ware koso wa ittō shain (1962)

1962 Japanese movie ...

Nippon no obaachan (1962)

Two obaachans become fast friends listening to music in front of a record store. They both boast about their loving sons but in reality, one had just escaped a retirement home and the other was looking for an escape from her son and daughter-in-law. With n ...

A Roaring Trade (1962)

The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy (1961)

A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It's a musical comedy that shows Segawa's talent. ...

Devil's Nursery Rhyme (1961)

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel. ...

A Bold Life (1961)

Depicts the checkered story of a businessman working for a toy company in financial trouble, who overcomes hardships to win a major victory. ...

Boss Takes to the Road (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Police Precinct Part 17 (1961)

The murder took place at a hotel in Matsushima. The victim is a woman about 28 years old. The suspect is a young man who visited her the night before, and the evidence, in addition to shoe horns and handkerchiefs, is soap with the name of the tavern. When ...

Mist and Shadows (1961)

A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region. In pursuit of the truth, they are led to a web of corporate f ...

As the Clouds Scatter (1961)

A provincial bus driver plans to marry his conductress, but one night he glimpses the woman he once loved, which throws him into turmoil. ...

Gambler in the Sea (1961)

Joe, a master diver, explodes his fighting spirit and friendship across raging seas and scorching deserts in this gorgeous and entertaining epic. ...

Sararīman yajikita dōchū (1961)

1961 Japanese movie ...

Hikkoshi yatsure (1961)

Manao Horiuchi movie ...

Obon, The Moll Dipper (1961)

Modern comedy, based on the popular manga. ...

Hattari Seinen Shinshi (1961)

Japanese comedy film. ...

Police Department Part 15: Alibi (1961)

The First Investigation Department is investigating a murder case that took place at a government agency, with particular attention to finding an alibi for the suspects. A security guard was killed in the building, the safe was broken into, but nothing was ...

Happiness of Us Alone (1961)

The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys. ...

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night (1960)

Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo. ...

The Angry Sea (1960)

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman. ...

Irohanihoheto (1960)

The anonymous partnership Investment Economic Association, led by its president Ryuichi Amano, collected money from many ordinary people and paid out large dividends, making it famous as "Japan's only investment bank for ordinary people." On the other hand ...

The Izu Dancer (1960)

Love story between a student and girl whose parents are itinerant entertainers. Set in Japan in the 1920's. ...

Case of Umon: Hell’s Windmill (1960)

Umon's services are called upon when innocent bystanders, Kayo and Minokichi, along with the ronin, Gontaro are mistakenly identified as suspects in several recent murder cases. To prove their innocence and uncover the truth, Umon launches his own investig ...

The Three Magicians (1960)

The Bride from Japan (1959)

A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya. ...

The Adventures of Sun Wu Kung (1959)

The mythical adventures of the legendary Chinese trickster Monkey, who must outwit a variety of wily demons who stand in the way of him and his fellow Buddhist travelers. Though portrayed as a literal, if rather anthropomorphized, monkey in the original le ...

Kiku and Isamu: Two Siblings Born in Japan (1959)

Kiku and her brother Isamu are social outcasts, children of a prostitute mother and black GI father, in postwar Japan. ...

Lucky Dragon No. 5 (1959)

An ageing fishing boat, Dai-go Fukuryu Maru ("Lucky Dragon No. 5") sets out from the port of Yaizu in Shizuoka Prefecture. It travels around the Pacific line fishing. While the ship is near Bikini Atoll, the ship's navigator sees a flash. All the crew come ...

Nitōhei monogatari: Aa senyū no maki (1958)

Fifth sequel to "Story of Second Class Private". ...

Maria of the Ant Village (1958)

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been baptized under the name of Maria, comes to offer her services. However, Ant Village is not just an ordinary vag ...

Tabi sugata nezumi kozō (1958)

1958 Japanese movie ...

Don't get in your hands (1958)

A woman in a bar was killed at a new construction site in an apartment building, and a handbag containing the value of five million yen was taken away. Detective Kuribayashi, who was involved in the investigation, turned his eyes to Kishida Ryohei, a cabar ...

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer (1957)

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wa ...

Hearts A-Flutter (1957)

Black River (1957)

A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era. ...

The Story of Pure Love (1957)

Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial labore ...

Elegy of the North (1957)

​Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko. ...

When It Rains, It Pours (1957)

Tane, the lady proprietor of an inn for amorous couples, lives there with her three children. When her eldest daughter loses her fiancé due to the fact her mother is a mistress, her despair drives her to become a cabaret hostess. ...

Ôban (1957)

A young country boy leaves his village for Tokyo, where he begins to work as a stock trader. First part (of four) of the film adaptation of Bunroku Shishi's novel, Oban. ...

Yellow Crow (1957)

Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, and giv ...

Typhoon Furor (1956)

A group of shady politicians want to make money after a typhoon by claiming the schoolhouse has been destroyed and then cashing in on building a new one. ...

Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita (1956)

Twice on a Certain Night (1956)

Poor social conditions badly affect the relationship between a married couple, when the husband, who is desperately searching for work, fails to notice the terrible sacrifices made by his wife when she accepts a job at a local inn. ...

Yukiko (1955)

House of Many Pleasures (1955)

Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obse ...

Mother and Son (1955)

An Ishiro Honda film. ...

Here Is a Spring (1955)

The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war. ...

The Cock Crows Twice (1954)

Three young women make a suicide pact, but they grow to have a better understanding of themselves. ...

The Valley Between Love and Death (1954)

A great ambition to portray with sharp satire and humor the course of modern anxiety and love that is about to be driven to despair. ...

An Inn at Osaka (1954)

Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life. ...

Girls in the Orchard (1953)

Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)-- and the modernity and lure of a life in the city. ...

Genta Shigure (1953)

Ryō Hagiwara movie ...

Bot-chan (1953)

1953 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel. ...

Yasugorō shusse (1953)

Where Chimneys Are Seen (1953)

Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo. ...

Husband and Wife (1953)

A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife. ...

The Whisper of Spring (1952)

After graduating from a high school in the Seto Inland Sea, Koji, a childhood friend of Yaeko, went to Tokyo to enter university wearing a heartfelt sweater. ...

Shimizu no Jirocho den (1952)

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho. ...

Mother (1952)

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family. ...

A Ripple in a Morning (1952)

Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan. ...

Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth (1952)

Period film about the legendary detective Umon ...

Dispersed Clouds (1951)

Five women classmates from a college in Tokyo are on the first stretch of a walking tour when one of them, Masako, falls ill at a railway station. Osen, a middle-aged maid from a nearby inn, takes her in and nurses her, assisted by Dr. Minami, a young phys ...

Miki, the Swordman (1951)

After mastering swordsmanship at the dojo of Chiba Shusaku, and unable to serve a clan due to his illness, Hirate Miki becomes a ronin who winds up as bodyguard to Shigezo of Sasagawa leading up to an epic battle. ...

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre (1951)

In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especi ...

The Well-known Magistrate (1951)

Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf (1951)

Enoken roppa no yajikita bugiugi dōchū (1950)

1950 Japanese movie ...

Enoken ohako rakuda no Ma-san (1950)

1950 Japanese movie ...

Duel in the Sun (1950)

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki ...

Conduct Report on Professor Ishinaka (1950)

Three humorous love stories set in rural Japan. ...

Odoru ryûgûjô (1949)

One Wonderful Sunday (1947)

Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope. ...

Life Is like a Somersault (1946)

After learning that he has accidentally killed a man in a fight, Unokichi must look after the man's pregnant widow. ...

Hyoroku's Dream Tale (1943)

The Man Who Waited (1942)

A bizarre murder at a hot springs resort threatens to disrupt an Edo detective's (Hasegawa) vacation. When his hot-blooded wife (Yamada) starts snooping around, however, he finds himself reluctantly drawn in to the case. ...

Travelling Actors (1940)

This film depicts a troupe of wandering kabuki players traveling through rural Japan. ...

Enoken's Bow-Wow General (1940)

Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa ...

Enoken's Cropped Hair (1940)

Enoken's pickpocket Kinta (returned from the Chakkiri Kinta movies) finds some unexpected trouble: a stolen diamond necklace he just can't seem to get rid of! ...

Enoken's Hokaibo (1938)

An irreverent take on a medieval Noh drama, Hokaibo sees Enoken play the titular monk whose lusts drive him to murder. ...

Enoken's Sarutobi Sasuke (1937)

Enoken plays legendary ninja Sarutobi Sasuke, whose magical powers never help as much as expected - in war or in love. ...

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 2 – Returning Is Scary, but the Weather Will Clear If You Wait (1937)

1930s Japanese comedy. ...

Enoken's Chikiri Kinta Part 1 – Momma, the Hat: The Nice Way (1937)

A comedic tale told in four parts, this film follows the antics of the pickpocket Kinta as he is pursued by a low ranking deputy named Kurakichi. The two get into all manner of peccadilloes and encounter a range of peculiar characters as their game of cat ...

Enoken's Kondo Isami (1935)

Enoken plays both Kondo Isami and his deadly enemy Sakamoto Ryoma in this comedic, song-filled vision of the Meiji Restoration. ...

Enoken's The Magician (1934)

Enoken plays a magician real powers come from his magical hat. A jealous theater owner sends girls, then goons, to keep Enoken from performing his grand show! ...

Romantic and Crazy (1934)

In 1930s Tokyo, the energetic Enoken and his ragtag group of friends navigate a series of chaotic misadventures involving romance and poverty. ...