Screenplay: Kafu Nagai
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Kafu Nagai. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Strange Story Of Oyuki
1992 · Movie · 116 min. · Japan
Direction Kaneto Shindô
Cast Masahiko Tsugawa · Yuki Sumida · Katsuyo Asari · Jun Hamamura
Plot Noted filmmaker Kaneto Shindo directs this erotic drama adapted from the autobiographical book by renowned writer Nagai Kafu. Kafu, a noted rake and whoremonger, became one of Japan's more celebrated...
6.0
41 votes
6.0
41 votes
The World of Geisha
1973 · Movie · 72 min. · Japan
Direction Tatsumi Kumashiro
Cast Junko Miyashita · Hideaki Esumi · Gô Awazu · Moeko Ezawa
Plot Sex and money collide at a geisha house before the Russo-Japanese War, where a first-time customer about to be married becomes deeply involved with an experienced geisha. The other women,...
4.9
27 votes
4.9
27 votes
Yearning
1993 · Movie · 98 min. · Japan
Direction Tamasaburo Bando
Cast Sayuri Yoshinaga · Kyoko Kataoka · Hiroyuki Nagato · Kirin Kiki
Plot Set during the Meiji period (1868-1912), Kaede (Sayuri Yoshinaga) is the former mistress of a wealthy merchant. When he dies, she is forced out on the street and forced to...
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The Twilight Story
1960 · Movie · 120 min. · Japan
Direction Shirô Toyoda
Cast Fujiko Yamamoto · Hiroshi Akutagawa · Michiyo Aratama · Nobuko Otowa
Plot A village girl lives in Tokyo as a hooker to support her ailing mother. One day she meets an allegedly unmarried teacher and falls in love.
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Odoriko
1957 · Movie · 96 min. · Japan
Direction Hiroshi Shimizu
Cast Chikage Awashima · Machiko Kyô · Eiji Funakoshi · Haruo Tanaka
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