Yasushi Nagata Movies

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

Suspense film based on Ryuji Hori's non-fiction book about the kidnapping and murder of 4-year-old Yoshinobu Murakoshi in 1963.

1962 Japanese movie

Nemuri Kyoshiro discovers a conspiracy centering around a band of disgruntled samurai wanting to avenge the death of their sensei, a political...

Drama which shows the struggle of Fumiko, a female teacher, at work and at home.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

1961 Toei adaptation of Yokomizo's novel.

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 thrilling entertainment mystery period drama directed by Daisuke Yamazaki, depicting the remarkable feats of the puppet showman Sakichi of Otama...

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

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...

A comedy of a high-spirited geisha, Koharu, who is at risk of being trapped in a conspiracy to take over a lucrative diamond mine business.

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...