Kō Nishimura Movies

Based on a mystery by Taiwanese-Japanese author Chin Shun-shin. After two elderly men in Yokohama quarrel over a Tang dynasty artifact, one of the...

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

A Hiromichi Horikawa movie

Just before the end of the war, Japanese soldier Kitani is released from prison, having served his term for theft. Told in flashback, viewers learn...

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Japanese drama film.

A documentary made to commemorate the 10th anniversary of Satsuo Yamamoto's death.

Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his...

A story of young students trained to become Kamikaze pilots in World War II.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

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

Three young men face off against corrupt officials and Yakuza in order to complete a reclamation project of the coastal embankment, who try to derail...

A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens...

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...

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

A story about the lives of four sisters and their manipulative mother who must come to terms with each of their decisions in life.

As the Japanese military has established the puppet state of Manchukuo and is advancing its invasion of Asia, fighting intensifying battles against...

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...