Asakazu Nakai Movies

A self-absorbed young actor humiliates an elderly Noh performer, who then commits suicide. His act of cruelty compels his father to disown him,...

The story of two sisters in post-war Japan. One is a geisha and the other works for the tourist board.

A high-schooler involved in turn-of-the-decade student movements works to escape his comfort zone and apply himself.

Ryuta and Mineo Komatsu are brothers, both yakuza (gangsters). Mineo, although complicit in crime, even murder, wants out of the gangster life,...

A math teacher loses his job while falling in love with a local girl.

When Kaoru's sister-in-law Miyoko arrives at the family home, tender feelings start to grow between the two. However, the initial happiness that...

On a post-war peaceful day in Japan, Toyomatsu Shimizu, a barber as well as a good father and husband, is suddenly arrested by the Prefectural Police...

Ultra-perky model likes single freedom but feels ryosai kenbo ("good wife, wise mother") pressure, exemplified by her bored-to-tears sister.

A 1970s Toho coming-of-age film.

A jidaigeki film on Banzuiin Chōbei produced in 1940 and directed by Yasuki Chiba.

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

A film by Hideo Suzuki.

Thriller directed by Seiji Maruyama

Lonely youth Shinji meets Hatsue, a pretty pearl diver, on the beach and the two fall in love. But Shinji has a rival for Hatsue's affections, Yasuo....

It is based on the story "The Lawyer" by attorney Hiroshi Masaki and his account of Japan's "Headless Murder Case" in which a police officer beat a...

Hideko, a young Baseball fan, determined to cheer for her favourite baseball team by creating a new song for them.

Wataru Naohiko who has the prosecutor general as his father became a young composer and its symphony "saint" invoked the world echoed. But his...