Direction: Nobuo Nakagawa

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


Ghost Story of Yotsuya

1959 · Movie · 76 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Noriko Kitazawa · Katsuko Wakasugi · Shuntarô Emi

Plot The ghost of a samurai's wife takes revenge on her husband.

6.6

232 votes

6.6

232 votes

The Mansion of the Ghost Cat

1958 · Movie · 69 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Toshio Hosokawa · Yuriko Ejima · Takashi Wada · Fujie Satsuki

Plot The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the...

6.3

77 votes

6.3

77 votes

The Ghosts of Kasane Swamp

1957 · Movie · 66 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Takashi Wada · Noriko Kitazawa · Tetsurô Tanba

Plot A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp....

6.3

40 votes

6.3

40 votes

A Wicked Woman (Poisonous Woman Takahashi O-Den)

1958 · Movie · 74 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Katsuko Wakasugi · Jûzaburô Akechi · Tetsurô Tanba · Akira Nakamura

Plot In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband. She falls in love with a young policeman, but is coerced into...

6.3

26 votes

6.3

26 votes

Jigoku

1960 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Shigeru Amachi · Utako Mitsuya · Yoichi Numata · Hiroshi Hayashi

Plot A graduate-school student has a friend who is pure evil. His friend and he are out driving one night when they hit a drunkard and the friend leaves the accident...

6.0

198 votes

6.0

198 votes

Lady Vampire

1959 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

5.4

31 votes

5.4

31 votes

The Pains of Hell Part 3

1936 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

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Kaiidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji

1982 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Fumihiko Fujima · Junko Miyashita · Shôji Ishibashi

Plot The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro. To get her, he would even kill Takuro. In course of a fight...

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Hatamoto kenka taka

1961 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Utaemon Ichikawa · Kusuo Abe · Kogiku Hanayagi · Hiromi Hanazono

Plot 1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get...

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Dandy Sashichi Detective Story: Six Famous Beauties

1956 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Tomisaburô Wakayama · Keiko Hibino · Misako Uji · Kodayu Ichikawa

Plot Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The film opens with the sextet humiliating...

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Okatsu the Fugitive

1969 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

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Itahachi jima

1938 · Movie · 51 min. · Japan

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Kanashimi wa itsumo haha ni

1962 · Movie · 83 min. · Japan

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Enoken no Tobisuke bôken ryokô

1949 · Movie · 81 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Kenichi Enomoto · Yukie Daigo · Kiyoko Hanashima · Teruko Asahi

Plot Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother so she can heals him with...

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