Kôji Nanbara Movies

1962 Japanese movie

One of the earliest Japanese cop films following a mysterious killing on the last train to Mitaka, Tokyo.

Based on the comic by Tatsu Kariya. Featuring journalist Shiro Yamaoka who works for Touzai Shimbun. He is a cynical food critic who is tasked by...

At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

Goto Tamiko starred in TV commercials and her father, Keisuke, was a powerful financier who is now fallen on hard times. Tamiko wants to marry her...

Comedy about sexy chambermaids at a hot spring resort.

The plans of a trio of burglars are continually thwarted by the arrival of visitors to the house they plan to rob.

A young doujinshi writer doesn't win the literary prize award, and ends up killing the selection committee.

A young dockworker who owes his life to his boss becomes embroiled in union activity on the Yokohama waterfront. The rebel Saburo works as an errand...

The basic story in Love under the Crucifix is about Ogin, daughter of a tea master, who are both Christians in feudal Japan. Ogin falls in love with...

A woman loses her son through an evil conspiracy and commits suicide. Shortly afterwards a ghost cat begins haunting the conspirators. This is...

Following “A Man's Face Shows His Personal History”, this movie is the second of the “Trilogy of the Wartime Generation”. It...

French docu-drama which chronicles the chain of events that lead to the hanging of German-journalist Richard Sorge, who was executed in 1944 after he...

1962 Japanese movie

The film depicts the youth of Kinzo, a heretic painter who worked in Tosa during the late Edo period, and the hurricane-like inner side of his life.

Based on the story "Gokudō Socrates"

Naito is serving time for his aggressive fundraising in the securities world, but returns to Osaka after completing his sentence. Although he wants...

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

Abashiri Prison is located in the coldest place in Japan. Two men, handcuffed together have escaped from the prison, one a yakuza, the other a petty...

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to...