Screenplay: Dai Nishijima

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


Girls in the Orchard

1953 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Kajirô Yamamoto

Cast Mariko Okada · Keiju Kobayashi · Hiroshi Koizumi · Yôko Sugi

Plot Girls in the Orchard (1953) is about tension between the life of a family in a rural area with all the traditions (continuing family business, taking care of the land)--...

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Cry-Baby

1955 · Movie · 100 min. · Japan

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Love Tide

1955 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Hiroshi Koizumi · Fubuki Koshiji · Mariko Okada

Plot The film is set in a post-War Tokyo where two of its citizens are lovers who reunite after being separated by the war.

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Vampire Moth

1956 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Nobuo Nakagawa

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Asami Kuji · Ichirô Arishima · Akio Kobori

Plot The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.

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All Is Well, Part 2

1955 · Movie · 78 min. · Japan

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Man Who Causes a Storm

1957 · Movie · 101 min. · Japan

Direction Umetsugu Inoue

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Kyôji Aoyama · Fukuko Sayo · Mie Kitahara

Plot Shoichi is a violent young man just released from jail who aspires to be a drummer. He works his way up by playing gigs in a hip Ginza club, an...

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Farewell Rabaul

1954 · Movie · 105 min. · Japan

Direction Ishirô Honda

Cast Ryo Ikebe · Mariko Okada · Rentarô Mikuni · Chieko Nakakita

Plot This is a film about a Naval Air Corps Director who hates the war. Director Honda uses this film to ask the question "What is war?", showing the human bonds...

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