Movies: Ryutaro Nagai

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens....

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1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts....

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

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their feudal lord after he was obliged to commit hara-kiri due to the machinations of a villainous courtier...

An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama....

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge....

Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business....

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Japanese film....

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death of his mother....

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane....

Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple....

Kichigoro, a firefighter from the Maeda family of the Kaga Principality, rescues Oshimo, the younger sister of Jirokichi, a city firefighter from the Ha-gumi group, from a samurai who is trying to kidnap her. Oshimo has feelings for Kichigoro. At thi...

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo....

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Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is arrested as the murderer and chaos ensues. Pre-war jidaigeki film....

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts....

1940 Japanese movie...

Period film from 1934....