Movies: Yasushi Nagata

Fukasaku and Chiba are back in a sequel filmed with the same cast and released just two weeks after the first film. This time the storyline is set in a small seaside town and the film favours detective and watadori film influences over westerns. Like...

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

The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband....

In the Meiji period, a schoolteacher tries to hide his lower-class upbringing as he supports a visiting liberal intellectual....

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide....

A young student falls into a hopeless romantic attraction to a sick girl, whom he can only see from afar....

Based on the original novel by Tokuda Shusei, adapted by frequent Masumura scribe Kaneto Shindo, this downbeat melodrama features a battle of women for the affections and commitment of the same man, a handsome car salesman. Masuko is the number one h...

1962 Japanese movie...

1962 Japanese movie...

First part of the famous Dai-bosatsu toge trilogy, based on Kaizan Nakazato’s unfinished long series of novels (41 books, written from 1913 to 1941). Set in the last period of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Daibosatsu Toge tells the story of Tsuke Ryunosuke...

The second film in the 20 Duels of Young Shingo trilogy directed by Sadatsugu Matsuda....

Akiko Mizushina, a university student, is in love with Keisuke Okazaki, a member of the rugby team at the same university. Sugiura, a brilliant scholarly student, also has feelings for Akiko. During the summer vacation, Akiko thought she was enjoying...

Epic saga of an idealistic land-owning family dealing with militarism, war, social change and economic reform....

Based on Kakuko Mori's autobiography, about her life and retirement from acting due to her increasing blindness....

Dai-ni-bu: Aijô ruten: Kiyoshi Saeki directed movie...

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

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses....

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a plan to rob a cash delivery truck in order to provide for their families....

Japanese action film....

The movie depicts the youth of kamikaze pilots who scattered young lives in the sky....