Cast: Tamao Nakamura

Direction Masaki Kobayashi

Cast Tatsuya Nakadai · Michiyo Aratama · Yusuke Kawazu · Tamao Nakamura

Plot The protagonist is the pacifistic Kaji. Strong-armed into the Japanese military during World War II, Kaji has reluctantly learned to kill on the battlefields. Upon his country's surrender, Kaji and...

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Narutoshi Hayashi · Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Ishiguro · Akitake Kôno

Plot Set in 12th Century Japan against a rich social and political background, TALES OF THE TAIRA CLAN is an epic tale of power struggles, family drama, and human frailty. Special...

Direction Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Cast Ayako Wakao · Junichiro Yamashita · Tamao Nakamura · Ganjiro Nakamura

Plot Based on a novel by Tsutomu Mizukami, a celebrated writer whose fictions also furnished plots for directors from Tadashi Imai to Masahiro Shinoda, this haunting melodrama focuses on a young...

Direction Kon Ichikawa

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tatsuya Nakadai · Ganjiro Nakamura · Yoichi Funaki

Plot Told in an intricate flashback structure, Enjo dramatizes the psychological collapse of Goichi (Raizo Ichikawa), a young Buddhist acolyte from a dysfunctional family who arrives at a Kyoto temple -...

Direction Yasuzô Masumura

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao · Tamao Nakamura · Saburo Date

Plot Fascinated with women from an early age, Yonosuke (Ichikawa Raizo) had his first sexual encounter at the age of seven. From that day on, he recklessly and forwardly pursues women,...

Direction Hiroshi Teshigahara

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Etsuko Ichihara · Osamu Okawa · Kiyoshi Atsumi

Plot A private detective is hired to find a missing man by his wife. While his search is unsuccessful, the detective's own life begins to resemble the man for whom he...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kojiro Hongo · Keiko Awaji · Tamao Nakamura

Plot Fate begins to smile upon young Chonosuke Tokugawa, son of eleventh Tokugawa Shogun, after some twenty years of life as a dependent at his step-brother’s castle, when the ruler of...

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Ryuzo Shimada · Yoshiro Kitahara · Tamao Nakamura

Direction Kenji Misumi

Cast Kojiro Hongo · Charito Solis · Shintarô Katsu · Machiko Kyô

Plot Shaka is an epic tale about the life of Buddha Shakamuni.

Direction Yôichi Higashi

Cast Naoko Otani · Tamao Nakamura · Tetta Sugimoto · Atsuro Watabe

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Masaji Umeiwa · Narutoshi Hayashi · Yataro Kurokawa · Tamao Nakamura

Direction Toshio Masuda

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jûshirô Konoe · Tamao Nakamura · Chieko Matsubara

Direction Bin Kado

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Kaoru Yachigusa · Tamao Nakamura · Michiko Ai

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kojiro Hongo · Tazuko Niki · Katsuhiko Kobayashi

Direction Teinosuke Kinugasa

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Machiko Kyô · Raizô Ichikawa · Ayako Wakao

Direction Shintarô Katsu · Eiichi Kudo · Kazuo Kuroki · Kazuo Mori

Cast Yoshio Harada · Yusaku Matsuda · Makoto Fujita · Masumi Harukawa

Plot TV series (1976).

Direction Daisuke Itô

Cast Raizô Ichikawa · Tamao Nakamura · Eitarô Ozawa

Direction Tokuzo Tanaka

Cast Shintarô Katsu · Jiro Tamiya · Yaeko Mizutani · Tamao Nakamura

Direction Kazuo Mori

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Raizô Ichikawa · Shintarô Katsu · Kojiro Hongo

Plot Jirocho is also this time the target of "evil" yakuza gangs that plan against him and his men.

Direction Kunio Watanabe

Cast Kôkichi Takada · Michiko Saga · Miki Morita · Jûshirô Konoe