Tomo'o Nagai Movies

A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers...

Genre: Action

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Yoji Kitami, a fisherman's son, is a student in Tokyo. His father had died at sea and Taichiro, his brother, is sending him to the university. But...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tetsuya Watari

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tadao Sawamoto

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tomo'o Nagai

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...

Genre: History

Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

A young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shima Iwashita

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Yūjirō Ishihara

Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is is...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Koji Tsuruta

A group of rank-and-file Japanese soldiers are jailed for crimes against humanity, themselves victims of a nation refusing to bear its burdens as a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kō Mishima

By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domen. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mikijiro Hira

Based on the novel by Yoshie Hotta

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shin Saburi

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Tsushima

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

1962 Japanese movie

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Cast: Tomo'o Nagai

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Takashi Shimura

This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure...

Genre: Action

Cast: Mari Atsumi

UFOs appear on Earth, and people who actually see them suddenly find that their blood has turned blue. Soon panic and hysteria result in the new...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Hiroshi Katsuno

A university student moves into an apartment building and becomes involved with a waitress. The landlord then attempts to evict the tenants and sell...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Fumio Watanabe

Two Jesuit priests encounter persecution when they travel to Japan in the 17th century to spread Christianity and search for their mentor.

Genre: Drama

Cast: David Lampson

Katiri is a reporter so ambitiously amoral that he’ll sell out anyone—including his partner and the drug dealer he’s sleeping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroyuki Nagato

1958 Newspaper Association Sweepstakes Winning Broadcast Drama Movie. A heartwarming and moving story that bloomed behind the competition between...

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Cast: Kyosuke Aihara

When bribe money from a rigged election funnels into a dam construction project, collusion, lust, greed and even murder are on the ballot.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Tragedy about a terminally ill girl.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Frankie Sakai

TV film about the "Nishiyama Incident", a scandal surrounding the 1972 return of Okinawa to Japan. Produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of TV...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kazuo Kitamura

Japanese crime film.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Shigeru Amachi

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

"The Time of Reckoning" transforms a screwball-comedy plot into a sober study of a successful businessman with serious relationship problems...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jirō Tamiya

Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sachiko Hidari

A story about four best friends and their lives inside and outside college. Then suddenly one of them receives a surprising offer to be a movie star.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tsutomu Matsukawa

Japanese drama film.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Yoshiko Kuga

When a gifted Japanese craftsmen dies, his three daughters are summoned to decide who will take over the family ribbon business in this family drama....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michiyo Aratama

Taking the Chilean coup as an example, a group of young officers plan to overthrow the Japanese government on V-J Day. They aim to abolish the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tsunehiko Watase

[Period covered: 1582-1594]. As the film opens, the warlod Nobunaga Oda rides to Iga Ayanokuni shrine. He is asked if he thinks he has destroyed all...

Genre: Action

Cast: Raizō Ichikawa

Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.

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Cast: Kenichi Hagiwara

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Isuzu Yamada

Omnibus picture, consisting of three stories.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fujiko Yamamoto

The clerk of a trading company happens to have a large sum of money from his company in his possession. His girlfriend pressures him into fleeing...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Gō Katō

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Cast: Kyoko Aoi

An action-packed, dramatic gangster film.

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Cast: Chiezō Kataoka

The film adaptation of the bestseller of the same name by Tsutomu Mizukami. A large-scale detective drama in which two newspaper reporters...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Tatsuo Umemiya

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ineko Arima

Utsugi, a seventy-seven-year-old man of refined tastes who is recovering from a stroke, discovers that, while his body is decaying, his libido still...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sō Yamamura

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

A young offender who is already guilty of many crimes is sentenced again for rape. Upon his release from prison, a year later, the victim waits to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Rentaro Mikuni

Based on a novel by Ayako Miura.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Seiya Nakano

The stage director Shimamura, who is bringing western theatre to Japan, falls in love with the outspoken actress Sumako Matsui, and leaves his family...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kinuyo Tanaka

The sequel to "Flowers and Dragons". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kinnosuke Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Genre: Western

Cast: Jō Shishido

The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his...

Genre: Action

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiji Sada

Obscure Masumura film shot in 1961.

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Cast: Hiroshi Kawaguchi

A youth drama directed by Kiyoshi Horiike, who was adapted from "Young Tokyo no Yane" by Akira Saiga from "Oka wa Hanazakari" based on Yojiro...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jūkichi Uno

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...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

1961 Japanese movie

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Cast: Reiko Sasamori