Direction: Kô Nakahira
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Kô Nakahira. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Titles found: 20
Crazed Fruit
1956 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Mie Kitahara · Ayuko Fujishiro · Taizô Fukami
Synopsis Spending their summer on an exotic beach, fall for the same beautiful girl. The brothers are part of a group of teenagers who congregate around their wealthy American friend. Things take a turn for the worse when each brother realizes...
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Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Izumi Ashikawa · Jun Hamamura
Synopsis Ishihara Yujirō star vehicle directed by Nakahira Kō.
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Rica 2: Lonely Wanderer
1973 · Movie · 85 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Rika Aoki · Ryunosuke Minegishi · Taiji Tonoyama · Mizuho Suzuki
Synopsis Having triumphed over the scars of her troubled youth, sexy Rica (Rika Aoki) is back to bust more heads in this sensual, action-packed sequel to the 1972 "pinky violence" thriller. When innocents connected to the mysterious destruction of a boat...
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Kuroi tobakushi: Akuma no hidarite
1966 · Movie · 93 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideaki Nitani · Yasushi Suzuki · Michiyo Yokoyama
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Black Gambler
1965 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Manami Fuji · Akira Kobayashi · Asao Koike
Synopsis One of the biggest action stars in Nikkatsu Studio in the early 1960s, Akira Kabayashi starred in multiple film series during his time at the studio (and in Suzuki's TATTOED LIFE). One of them is the GAMBLER series, a James...
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Dorodarake no junjô
1963 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Mitsuo Hamada · Sayuri Yoshinaga · Masako Izumi · Osamu Takizawa
Synopsis Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami’s family will not accept her choice, while...
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Summer Heat
1968 · Movie · 91 min. · Hong Kong
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Chieh Yuan · Chin Han · Siu Lam-Wun · Jenny Hu
Synopsis A gripping drama about a seductive woman with three men in her life: a rich husband ; a sexy playboy, and a sensitive intellectual. That two of her lovers are brothers further complicates the story.
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Bright Sea
1963 · Movie · 125 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Mitsuo Hamada · Mieko Takamine · Masayuki Mori
Synopsis On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a...
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Melody of Love aka Variation
1976 · Movie · 110 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Reiko Asoo · Caroline Gabriel · Noboru Matsuhashi · Hideaki Nitani
Synopsis The man who lives in the past and The woman who abandoned a past. They were lovers 10 years ago, and had met again in Paris.
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Only on Mondays
1964 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Mariko Kaga · Tanie Kitabayashi · Akira Nakao · Takeshi Katô
Synopsis Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal.
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Nerawareta otoko
1956 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira · Koreyoshi Kurahara
Cast Jun Hamamura · Tanie Kitabayashi · Tatsuo Matsushita · Taketoshi Naitô
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The Hunter's Diary
1964 · Movie · 123 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Noboru Nakaya · Masako Togawa · Kazuo Kitamura · Yukiyo Toake
Synopsis Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo. While living in a hotel, he is also renting an apartment for fulfilling his sexual appetite. There, he records the results of his 'girl hunts' to the last...
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Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Rika Aoki · Kazuko Nagamoto · Masami Souda · Michi Nono
Synopsis The offspring of a Japanese mother who was raped by an American GI sets out on a mission of vengeance in this 1972 exploitation classic. Rica was raised by the knife. Raped by one of her mother's johns as a...
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Danger Pays
1962 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Jô Shishido · Hiroyuki Nagato · Ruriko Asaoka · Arihiro Fujimura
Synopsis Things that people will do for money! Money! Even fake money! In a race to win over a master counterfeiter capable of printing fake bills that are virtually impossible to detect, "Joe the Ace" faces a merciless hit man and...
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Who Is the Murderer?
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Ichiro Sugai · Hisako Yamane · Akira Kobayashi · Kô Nishimura
Synopsis A gritty troubled youth drama, fuelled no doubt by the taiyozoku (sun tribe) fever than current.
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The Assignation
1959 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Yôko Katsuragi · Takao Ito · Seiji Miyaguchi · Chikako Hosokawa
Synopsis A short, confrontational tale about an affair between a student and a married woman. Young Kikuko (Yoko Katsuragi) is married to an older university professor and because of the age difference as well as several other factors, she is bored...
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Temptation
1957 · Movie · 91 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Eisei Amamoto · Tomio Aoki · Reiko Arai · Izumi Ashikawa
Synopsis The middle-aged Shokichi, shop owner and widower, could never forget his first love. One day, Akiko, a painter, appears in the gallery with the painting titled "Woman". Shokichi surprised to find that painting is actually his first love.
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The Scarlet Wings
1958 · Movie · 94 min. · Japan
Direction Kô Nakahira
Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Izumi Ashikawa · Sanae Nakahara · Hideaki Nitani
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