Direction: Kô Nakahira

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


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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He and I

1961 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

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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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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Diary Of A Lady-Killer

1969 · Movie · 96 min. · Hong Kong

Direction Kô Nakahira

Cast Chu Gam · Erh Chun · Fanny Fan · Lui Hung

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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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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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Rica

1972 · Movie · 92 min. · Japan

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

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Interpol

1967 · Movie · 92 min. · Hong Kong

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