Screenplay: Ryuzo Nakanishi

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


Massacre Gun

1967 · Movie · 89 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Jô Shishido · Tatsuya Fuji · Ryoji Hayama · Takashi Kanda

Plot Kuroda (Jô Shishido) is a mob hitman who turns on his employers after being forced to execute his lover. Joining forces with his similarly wronged brothers, hot-headed Eiji (Tatsuya Fuji)...

6.8

22 votes

6.8

22 votes

Willy Fog Travels Around the Earth (TV Series)

1983 · Series · 24 min. · Spain

Direction Luis Ballester Bustos · Fumio Kurokawa

Plot TV Series (1981-1982). 26 Episodes. A furry version of Jules Verne's classic adventure story of the challenge to circumnavigate around the globe in 80 days.

6.7

35K votes

6.7

35K votes

Goku: Midnight Eye

1989 · Movie · 50 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Plot A private eye named Goku investigates a number of suicides of police officers. When he encounters the woman responsible for those suicides, he is caught by her supernatural powers and...

6.4

100 votes

6.4

100 votes

Direction Fumio Kurokawa · Yoshio Kuroda · Yoshihiro Kuroda

Plot TV Series (1977). 26 Episodes. Based on the stories by Ernest Thompson Seton. One day a native American boy named Ran meets two little bears at the foot of the...

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

A Dog of Flanders (TV Series)

1975 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshio Kuroda

Plot Nello Tarth is a poor but happy orphan who lives with his grandfather Jehan in a little village nearby Antwerp. Nello has a talent for drawing pictures and has been...

5.8

153 votes

5.8

153 votes

Reporter Blues (TV Series)

1991 · Series · 24 min. · Italy

Direction Marco Pagot · Gi Pagot · Kenji Kodama · Saburo Hashimoto

Plot Paris in the 1920s: Toni, a pretty young reporter for a daily newspaper, is crazy about the new jazz music that's sweeping Europe. In her spare time, she plays saxophone...

5.2

147 votes

5.2

147 votes

Christopher Columbus (TV Series)

1992 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Fumio Kurokawa

Plot TV series to commemorate the quincentenary of Columbus set foot on the New World (1492-1992).

5.2

32 votes

5.2

32 votes

Wakusei daisenso

1977 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Jun Fukuda

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

Plot 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

Monster from a Prehistoric Planet

1967 · Movie · 95 min. · Japan

Direction Hiroshi Noguchi

Cast Tamio Kawaji · Yôko Yamamoto · Tatsuya Fuji · Yûji Odaka

Plot An expedition in the South Pacific lands on a tropical island where the natives worship the mysterious deity Gappa. An earthquake opens up an underground cavern and a baby reptile...

3.7

26 votes

3.7

26 votes

Song of Baseball Enthusiasts (TV Series)

1977 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Tameo Kohanawa

Plot TV Series (1977 - 1979). 25 Episodes. Against her insistence, Yuuki is drafted by the Tokyo Mets as the first woman player in the baseball league. (Source: MyAnimeList)

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Ginza no Jirochô - Tenka no ichidaiji

1963 · Movie · 90 min. · Japan

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A Man's World

1971 · Movie · 82 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Yujiro Ishihara · Jô Shishido · Ryohei Uchida · Kenji Sugawara

Plot Tadao Konno (Yujiro Ishihara) had been staying in Canada for 5 years since his girlfriend’s death. She was killed for Gang’s boss, Shiraishi. Now Tadao returned from Canada and Gang...

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Lupin tai Holmes

1981 · Movie · 68 min. · Japan

Direction Masayuki Akehi

Plot The famous detective Sherlock Holmes is hired from France to solve cases linked with the famous criminal Arsène Lupin.

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School of Love: Heart's Story (TV Series)

1981 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Eiji Okabe

Plot TV Series (1981). 26 episodes.

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Animated Classics of Japanese Literature (TV Series)

1986 · Series · 30 min. · Japan

Direction Fumio Kurokawa · Eiji Okabe

Plot Yasunari Kawabata, Yukio Mishima, Itô Sachio, Tatsuo Hori, Hidemitsu Tanaka, Natsume Sôseki, Fumiko Hayashi, Mori Ogai, Yasushi Inoue, Hisashi Inoue, Yuzo Yamamoto, Ichiyô Higuchi, Kyôka Izumi, Koizumi Yakumo, Jirô Akagawa,...

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Savage Wolf Pack

1969 · Movie · 84 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

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

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

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Circuit no ohkami

1977 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Kazuhiko Yamaguchi

Cast Shin'ya Fubuki · Kazuyoshi Hoshino · Satoshi Ikezawa · Kenji Imai

Plot Car mechanic Yuya dreams of becoming a race driver. His daily routine - working with cars, and collecting pictures of his idol Niki Lauda - is interrupted by the appearance...

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Black Tight Killers

1966 · Movie · 87 min. · Japan

Direction Yasuharu Hasebe

Cast Akira Kobayashi · Chieko Matsubara · Akemi Kita · Mieko Nishio

Plot Daisuke is a combat photographer trying to save his stewardess girlfriend, Yoriko, from an alliance of American mobsters and Japanese yakuza. What he soon discovers is that everyone is after...

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Not rated