Cinematography: Hanjiro Nakazawa

The best movies, series, and documentaries with cinematography by Hanjiro Nakazawa. Explore visually stunning titles that highlight an exceptional filmmaking.


A Fugitive from the Past

1965 · Movie · 183 min. · Japan

Direction Tomu Uchida

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Sachiko Hidari · Koji Mitsui · Yoshi Kato

Plot A successful businessman's murderous past comes back to haunt him when a prostitute recognizes him as a killer.

7.3

50 votes

7.3

50 votes

Street Mobster

1972 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Noboru Andô · Mayumi Nagisa · Asao Koike

Plot Street mobster Isamu Okita likes fighting and girls, and is just out of prison for killing a rival in a bath-house. On release, he finds things have changed: old gangs...

6.9

77 votes

6.9

77 votes

Graveyard of Honor

1975 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tatsuo Umemiya · Yumi Takigawa · Eiji Gô

Plot This highly stylized Japanese mockumentary examines the downward spiral of a sociopathic thug. While working for one of Japan's biggest crime families, Rikio finds himself committing a variety of brutal...

6.8

144 votes

6.8

144 votes

Winter's Flower

1978 · Movie · 121 min. · Japan

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

Gambler: Foreign Opposition (Gamblers in Okinawa)

1971 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Noboru Andô · Kenji Imai · Akiko Kudô

Plot A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.

6.7

81 votes

6.7

81 votes

Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion

1972 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Shunya Ito

Cast Meiko Kaji · Rie Yokoyama · Isao Natsuyagi · Fumio Watanabe

Plot After being cruelly set up and deceived by Sugimi (Natsuyagi Isao), a conniving and crooked detective she had whole-heartedly fallen in love with (and subsequently lost her virginity to...), Matsushima...

6.6

324 votes

6.6

324 votes

6.4

23 votes

Delinquent Girl Boss: Unworthy of Penance

1971 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Reiko Oshida · Nobuo Kaneko · Junzaburo Ban · Yumiko Katayama

Plot Juvenile delinquent Rika gets released from the reform school and ends up protecting the debt-ridden father of her friend from local gangsters.

6.1

22 votes

6.1

22 votes

Bloody Gambles (Bloodstained Clan Honor)

1970 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Bunta Sugawara · Tatsuo Umemiya · Koji Tsuruta · Ken Sanders

Plot It takes place in the sunset days of the yakuza in the 1970s. The postwar turmoil that created the black market and lubricated illegal business opportunities was giving way to...

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Pretty Devil Yoko

1966 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan

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The Crab-Canning Ship

1953 · Movie · 112 min. · Japan

Direction Sô Yamamura

Cast Sô Yamamura · Masayuki Mori · Sumiko Hidaka · Akitake Kôno

Plot Describes the oppressed life of the crab fishermen and their final revolt which is bloodily suppressed by the Royal Navy.

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Third Generation Boss

1974 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan

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Army Intelligence 33

1968 · Movie · 88 min. · Japan

Direction Tsuneo Kobayashi

Cast Sonny Chiba · Mako Midori · Ryo Ikebe · Mitsuko Mito

Plot Chiba portrays a promising young soldier who is framed for murder, and forced to become a spy after being found guilty in military court.

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The Cheating Underworld

1968 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Rin'ichi Yamamoto · Michitaro Mizushima · Kyôsuke Machida

Plot Gangsters are robbed of five hundred million yens.

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Parole

1967 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuo Furuhata

Cast Noboru Andô · Tomisaburô Wakayama · Kayo Matsuo · Jūzō Itami

Plot Three men vs. gangsters in a fight involving smuggled gold.

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Japan Organized Crime Boss

1969 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Kinji Fukasaku

Cast Koji Tsuruta · Bunta Sugawara · Ryohei Uchida · Noboru Andô

Plot Coming out of jail and hoping for a quiet life, Yokohama yakuza has to take the lead of his gang after the death of his boss. His small group is...

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Boryokudan

1963 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

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The Wayside Pebble

1964 · Movie · 97 min. · Japan

Direction Miyoji Ieki

Cast Chikage Awashima · Shûichi Ikeda · Katsuo Nakamura · Masao Oda

Plot The Wayside Pebble is an effective drama about the hardships of a childhood spent with a brusque, cold-hearted father and a submissive mother. The year is 1910 and the place...

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Tale of Japanese Burglars

1965 · Movie · 117 min. · Japan

Direction Satsuo Yamamoto

Cast Rentarô Mikuni · Yûnosuke Itô · Sonny Chiba · Shinjiro Ebara

Plot Hayashida Gisuke is illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during the burglary he becomes a witness of derailment. Later some commies were found guilty...

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