Direction: Shunichi Nagasaki

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Shunichi Nagasaki. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Black Belt

2007 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Akihito Yagi · Tatsuya Naka · Yuji Suzuki · Kenji Anan

Synopsis It is the early 1930s and Japan has annexed the Manchurian region of northern China. Its imperialist ambitions have been unleashed, and storm clouds are slowly forming. On the southern Japanese island of Kyushu, the techniques and traditions of karate...

6.6

355 votes

6.6

355 votes

Direction Hiromi Kusaka · Yui Miyatake · Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Inowaki Kai · Yûki Morinaga · Shûhei Nomura · Atsushi Ogata

Synopsis TV Series(2019). 10 Episodes. An Italian missionary arrived in Japan during the Middle Ages in order to proselytize, evangelize and recruit people to his religion. He instituted seminaries around the country and picked the most ardent to travel to the...

5.2

23 votes

5.2

23 votes

The Enchantment

1989 · Movie · 109 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Kumiko Akiyoshi · Masao Kusakari · Kiwako Harada · Tsutomu Isobe

Synopsis Love triangles are fun. They are especially fun with the involved including a psychiatrist, his secretary and a patient. Throw in a patient with multiple personalty disorder with a part-time homicidal rage and a smitten, and therefore envious, secretary and...

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A Tender Place

2001 · Movie · 201 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Yûki Amami · Matsuoka Shunsuke · Merii Ajima · Rina Akiyama

Synopsis Kasumi is in the midst of an affair with Ishiyama, one of her husband’s clients. When Kasumi and her family visit Ishiyama’s villa in Hokkaido, she plans to abandon them to be with Ishiyama. The next morning, her daughter Yuka...

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London Calling

1985 · Movie · 13 min. · Japan

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Yojo no jidai

1988 · Movie · 107 min. · Japan

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The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September

1982 · Movie · 104 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Masato Furuoya · Sachiko Itô · Masao Matsuda · Hideo Murota

Synopsis Ryo once rode with a biker gang; ever since his friend Tetsuji died riding in September, he's retired from biking, trying to forget the past. A year later, a mysterious man is going around destroying any remaining biker gangs, and...

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The Witch of the West Is Dead

2008 · Movie · 115 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Yuichi Kimura · Nao Omori · Sachi Parker

Synopsis A 13-year-old girl named Mai refuses to go to school due to her asthma. Her parents send her to to stay with her British grandmother in the countryside. Thinking her grandmother is a witch, Mai asks for witch lessons. Her...

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Nurse Call

1992 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Hiroko Yakushimaru · Yuki Matsushita · Gitan Ôtsuru · Atsuro Watabe

Synopsis "Nurse Call" deals with the harried, overworked lives of Japan's nurses. Based on the book by Keiko Nobumoto who used to be a hospital nurse.

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Shikoku

1999 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Yui Natsukawa · Michitaka Tsutsui · Chiaki Kuriyama · Toshie Negishi

Synopsis Years after moving to Tokyo with her parents, Hinako returns to her hometown in rural Shikoku. She soon learns that her childhood friend, Sayuri, died several years ago and that Sayuri's mother, who used to perform seances and exorcisms, has...

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Heart, Beating in the Dark

1982 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Shunichi Nagasaki

Cast Takashi Naitô · Shigeru Muroi · Taro Suwa

Synopsis A young girl and a man struggle to understand their place in urban Japan, all the while holding dark secrets.

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