Akira Nakamura

AKA: Torahiko Nakamura, 中村虎彦
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1916-04-07

Ikebukuro, Tokyo, Japan

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {54}

Toranosuki Niiseki

1943-03-25 6.519

Sanshiro Sugata

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guar ...
Genre :Drama

Dr.Sakurai

1966-01-21 4.9

Evil Brain from Outer Space

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet. ...
Genre :Action, Science Fiction

1957-11-23 0

Hibari no san'yaku: Zoku Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge

Genre :History, Drama

1957-11-17 0

Hibari no san'yaku: Kei tsuya yuki no jôhenge

Genre :History, Drama

1956-12-28 0

Devil Princess’ Beauty Competition

An exciting historical drama in which a beautiful woman secretly solves the family problems of the Owari clan. Hibari Misora plays two roles: a charming princess and a dashing youngster, performs song ...
Genre :Drama

1948-06-08 0

Kuro-uma no danshichi

Genre :

1943-12-01 0

Wakaki sugata

Genre :Drama

1953-10-21 7.6

The Eagle of the Pacific

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pe ...
Genre :Drama, War

1947-02-25 0

A Thousand and One Nights with Toho

The debut film of Shin Toho Productions ...
Genre :Drama

Akira

1942-02-14 0

Currents of Youth

It was supposed to be about a love story, but it was and was not. An aircraft mechanic working for the government is matched by his boss with the latter man's daughter (Setsuko Hara) who is both beaut ...
Genre :Drama

Shigekatsu Matsumura

1959-03-07 4.9

The Lady Vampire

Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby. No one knows the first thing about ...
Genre :Horror

Isamu

1943-02-25 0

Miss Hanako

Hanakosan (1943, TOHO, MAKINO Masahiro), a thoroughly light and joyful musical comedy, influenced by Busby Berkeley films, against the national policy under the wartime, was made into a film from comi ...
Genre :Music, Comedy

1958-04-29 0

Super Giant: The Space Mutant Appears

The 7th Super Giant film. Super Giant battles a marauding alien brain-like creature created by a mad scientist and an alien army. (stand-alone episode) ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action

1957-10-08 0

Super Giant: Earth on the Verge of Destruction

The 4th Super Giant film, in which he continues his fight against the Kapia Aliens (Part 2 of 2) ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action

Shigenobu Hishikawa

1958-07-13 4.333

The Mother Tree

A painter leaves his family to paint the homes of his rich clients. A lonely, ruthless samurai falls in love with the painter's wife and rapes her. He later murders the painter and his servants. From ...
Genre :Horror

1957-10-01 4

Super Giant: The Mysterious Spacemen's Demonic Castle

The 3rd Super Giant film, in which he saves Earth from the threat of the reptile-like Kapia Aliens. ...
Genre :Science Fiction, Action

1957-01-09 0

Mysterious Clouds: Legend of Satomi's Heroic Deed

In the first year of Chōroku, Satomi Yoshimi, lord of Takita Castle in Awa, faces defeat by neighboring lord Anzai Kagesuren. As the castle nears collapse, Anzai demands a seed from Yoshimi’s lineage, ...
Genre :Horror, History

Akihiko, the father

1962-06-02 0

Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni

The last film produced by Shintoho. ...
Genre :Drama

1961-01-03 0

Zoku-sei to ningen

1961 Japanese movie ...
Genre :

1954-04-20 7.3

An Inn at Osaka

An Inn at Osaka, rarely seen outside Japan, follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to re ...
Genre :Drama

1961-03-22 0

東京の夜は泣いている

Kazuko Matsuo sings the theme song to this drama film. ...
Genre :Drama

Admiral Itō

1957-04-29 0

Emperor Meiji and the Great Russo-Japanese War

Meiji Tenno portrays the buildup to the Russo-Japan War. In addition to showing the political events that led to war, it also shows the era from the story of a farm family in rural Japan that sends th ...
Genre :History, War, Drama

1958-04-12 5

Flesh Pier

Director Teruo Ishii's crime action follows the investigative adventures of an undercover cop working with a prostitution ring. It's done in an unique documentary style. ...
Genre :Crime

1958-02-04 0

関八州喧嘩陣

1958 jidaigeki directed by Masaki Mori for Shintoho. ...
Genre :History

1952-10-02 0

Geisha Waltz

1952 Japanese film directed by Kunio Watanabe. ...
Genre :Drama

1953-01-29 0

親馬鹿花合戦

Kingoro Yanagiya's 100th film. ...
Genre :Comedy

Vice principle

1961-03-15 0

Kaachan

Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression. ...
Genre :Drama

Priest Hanayama

1959-01-03 0

The Pacific War and the International Military Tribunal

In 1941, overpopulated Japan faces an economic boycott and its armed forces push further to the south. And despite negotiations between Japan and the U. S. A. war is declared with the attack on Pearl ...
Genre :War

Taga

1955-06-19 8

Twilight Saloon

Set in a tavern, director Tomu Uchida depicts the joys and sorrows of the people who gather there in an experimental style, weaving in a variety of music in this ambitious ensemble drama. ...
Genre :Drama

1955-04-24 0

Nonki saiban

A spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of beauty, the crime of a terrifying wife, the crime of taki ...
Genre :Comedy, Music

Tadaaki Tachibana

1942-12-03 6

The War at Sea from Hawaii to Malaya

Japanese Navy air cadets train for the attacks on Pearl Harbor and the HMS Prince of Wales. ...
Genre :Drama, History, War

1958-09-21 1

Secret White Line Zone

First film in Teruo Ishii's Line series. ...
Genre :Crime

Yukio

1957-04-30 6.7

Snow Country

It's a man's world. Shimamura, an artist, comes to this snowbound town to rejuvenate himself. He connects with Komako, a geisha he met on a previous trip, and it seems like love. She's the foster daug ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Jinjûrô Koga

1958-02-25 6.5

A Wicked Woman

In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into becoming the mistress of and ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Shinzaemon Fukami

1957-07-10 7.125

The Ghost of Kasane

A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp. However, the ghost of the masseur returns to h ...
Genre :Horror

Michi's father

1961-11-01 0

The End of Love

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature ...
Genre :

Professor Yajima

1960-07-30 6.33

Jigoku

A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell. ...
Genre :Horror, Drama

1949-08-23 6.5

Ghost Cat of Nabeshima

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He recommend Kinbei to offer it to his lord. Kinbei hesitates ...
Genre :Mystery, Horror

1960-07-01 8

The Ghost Cat of Otama Pond

Two lovers lost in the mountains. In what direction do not go, they find themselves in a mysterious forest pond, as if some kind of force does not want to let them go. Once upon a time, over a century ...
Genre :Horror

1958-03-14 0

Emperor & Empress Meiji and the Sino-Japanese War

Genre :History, War

1958-08-09 0

Ghost in the Regiment

Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad. The lieutenant rapes the wife, but is hau ...
Genre :Horror, Crime, War

1956-05-18 0

The Prosecutor and His Sister

Genre :Drama

1947-10-30 0

Invitation to Happiness

Kôfuku eno shôtai - Invitation to happiness ...
Genre :Drama

1941-10-04 0

Story of Leadership

In this semi-documentary, an older locomotive driver is tasked with training younger ones and is currently training two in particular. The old man is finding the task overwhelming as it is hard work w ...
Genre :Drama

1956-07-21 5

Admiral Yamamoto and the Allied Fleets

Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto leads the Combined Fleet of the Imperial Japanese Navy to defeat the American Fleet. ...
Genre :War

1951-12-28 0

Koi no rantō

"My mother is Japanese, a drifting diva of Tokyo" After the death of her father Reika goes to Japan to visit her mother, but can't find her, so she starts performing at a cabaret in Yokohama. Her mo ...
Genre :

1959-01-09 0

Satsujinhan nanatsu no kao

Japanese crime film ...
Genre :

1957-05-29 0

妖婦 夜嵐お絹と天人お玉

Fictionalized retelling of the life of a Geisha poisoner. ...
Genre :

1957-04-30 0

剣聖　暁の三十六番斬り

Genre :

1953-06-03 0

Achako's Notebook of Youth 4: Happy Marriage

Fourth installment in the "Achako's Notebook of Youth" series. ...
Genre :Comedy

1958-05-03 0

Star Poisoning Case

Japanese crime film. ...
Genre :Crime

1961-01-21 0

Ren'ai Zubari Kōza

A omnibus movie consisting of the three parts: "Kechinbo", "Yowak" and "Kōshoku". ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

三島

1949-03-05 0

Shooting Star

Based on that testimony, an investigation is launched in the entertainment district, and through a brief conversation between Toda and Nanako at the cabaret "R-Red," it becomes apparent that her lover ...
Genre :

Takashi Ooshi

1940-10-30 0

A Sister's Promise

A family comprised of a father, mother and three sisters lives in a posh area. The father is a doctor who has to join the army and work at war. The four remaining women have to take care of themselves ...
Genre :Drama