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

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