Screenplay: Hideichi Nagahara

Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Hideichi Nagahara. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.


A Colt Is My Passport

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Takashi Nomura

Cast Jô Shishido · Chitose Kobayashi · Jerry Fujio · Shôki Fukae

Synopsis A crafty hitman and his cunning sidekick attempt a daring escape after carrying out a high-profile contract and incurring the wrath of a vicious gang.

7.2

162 votes

7.2

162 votes

Stray Cat Rock: Female Boss

1970 · Movie · 75 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tatsuya Fuji · Meiko Kaji · Ken Sanders · Hanako Tokachi

Synopsis Yasuharu Hasebe developed and directed this first installment in a five-film series dealing with the adventures of all-girl motorcycle gangs. Mei, leader of an all-girl biker gang, inadvertently gets involved with a yakuza group's plot to rig boxing matches because...

5.8

49 votes

5.8

49 votes

Godzilla 1985

1984 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Koji Hashimoto

Cast Ken Tanaka · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Keiju Kobayashi · Yosuke Natsuki

Synopsis From out of the South Seas comes a gigantic monster that attacks Tokyo and devastates Japan. The American version of the film added Raymond Burr as a reporter named Steve Martin, who witnesses the destruction up close.

5.6

472 votes

5.6

472 votes

The Return of Godzilla

1985 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction R.J. Kizer · Koji Hashimoto

Cast Raymond Burr · Ken Tanaka · Yasuko Sawaguchi · Yosuke Natsuki

Synopsis Godzilla 1985 is a Japanese American science fiction kaiju film co-produced and released by New World Pictures. The film is a heavily re-edited version of the Japanese film, The Return of Godzilla, originally produced by Toho in 1984. In addition...

4.8

37 votes

4.8

37 votes

Wakusei daisenso

1977 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

Cast Kensaku Morita · Yûko Asano · Ryo Ikebe · Masaya Oki

Synopsis Earth is attacked by alien spacecraft from Venus. But a Japanese scientist has constructed a space craft, the Gohten, with which he may save humanity.

4.5

29 votes

4.5

29 votes

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Three Seconds Before the Explosion

1967 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Motomu Ida

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Hideki Takahashi · Ryoji Hayama · Asao Uchida

Synopsis A lightning-paced 60's crime film from Japan's Nikkatsu Studios, 3 SECONDS TO EXPLOSION packs enough subterfuge and action into its 84 volatile minutes to fill out a dozen pictures made anywhere else.

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Stray Cat Rock: Beat '71

1971 · Movie · 86 min. · Japan

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Tatsuya Fuji · Yoshio Harada · Takeo Chii

Synopsis The series swansong, Beat '71, sees Kaji framed and sent to prison by her boyfriend's father and with the help of some hippies she strives to be re-united.

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Savage Wolf Pack

1969 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Tetsuya Watari · Tamio Kawaji · Mieko Fujimoto · Yuri Yoshioka

Synopsis The clash between a group of motorist gangster and a professional hunter who desire for revenge.

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The Resurrection of the Golden Wolf

1979 · Movie · 131 min. · Japan

Direction Toru Murakawa

Cast Yusaku Matsuda · Jun Fubuki · Kei Sato · Mikio Narita

Synopsis Yusaka Matsuda stars as a seemingly run-of-the-mill corporate salary man who leads a double life as a vicious criminal by night. In a delicious scheme of payback, he seeks to dominate the corporation that employs him by day with no...

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Stray Cat Rock: Wild Jumbo

1970 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Toshiya Fujita

Cast Meiko Kaji · Bunjaku Han · Takeo Chii · Tatsuya Fuji

Synopsis Five freewheeling friends conjure up a plan to rob 30 million yen from a religious movement.

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Hairpin Circus

1972 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Kiyoshi Nishimura

Cast Hiroshi Misaki · Yûko Enatsu · Yuko Ashibe · Goro Mutsumi

Synopsis Shimao is a former racecar champion who retired after winning the GP of Macao, during which the only other Japanese driver taking part perished in a brutal crash. Shimao now leads a calm domestic life with a pretty wife and...

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The Most Dangerous Game

1978 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

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The Sun Above, Death Below

1968 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Hiromichi Horikawa

Cast Yûzô Kayama · Ruriko Asaoka · Masayuki Mori · Jun Funato

Synopsis Suspense drama about an assassin charged with breaking up a gold smuggling ring, and the contract subsequently purchased against him and his employer.

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