Kō Nishimura Movies

Late romance by acclaimed filmmaker Kinugasa Teinosuke.

A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were...

Follows the jealousies and lives of concubines in the Edo period's inner palace (Ōoku), following Shogun Ieharu Tokugawa's selection of a new...

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...

1961 Japanese movie

A Buddhist monk becomes ensnared by a seductive woman who, according to legend, transforms her lovers into beasts.

This remake of the classic film features the addition of Chiba Shinichi and Natsuyagi Isao as political intrigue reigns supreme. Tadanaga, the...

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

Satsuo Yamamoto's filmic depiction of the famous 1949 Matsukawa Incident.

Japanese crime film

1962 Japanese movie

Takashi, who took the blame when his father shot a gangster, returns home after serving a four-year sentence, only to find it infested with yakuza...

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major...

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original...

In a bustling shopping district, a humble tailor accompanies his daughter for an afternoon out — until a trio of thugs begin harassing her in...

A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.