Kiichi Nakai Movies

Kon Ichikawa's retelling of the classic true story of Samurai honor. When a young clan lord is forced to commit seppuku (ritual suicide), his loyal...

Genre: Action

Cast: Ken Takakura

A four-part anthology in the spirit of The Twilight Zone, this film starts off with a group of commuters stranded at a train station in the rain,...

Genre: Horror

Cast: Kazuyuki Aijima

Kanichiro Yoshimura is a Samurai and Family man who can no longer support his wife and children on the the low pay he receives from his small town...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Takada, a Japanese fisherman has been estranged from his son for many years, but when the son is diagnosed with terminal cancer his daughter-in-law,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

A Chinese emissary is sent to the Gobi desert to execute a renegade soldier. When a caravan transporting a Buddhist monk and a valuable treasure is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jiang Wen

Hyakkimaru, a warrior on a quest to reclaim 48 of his body parts which were each taken by a demon, is joined by Dororo, a thief on a quest to avenge...

Genre: Action

Cast: Satoshi Tsumabuki

A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Japanese nobles.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mansai Nomura

A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuji Oda

A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Koichi Sato

Two poor, married farmers have recently lost their only child; after a freak visitation, they pry open an alien cocoon to greet their new daughter.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Toshirō Mifune

A heartwarming tale about the turning point in the life of an elite business man in his fifties and a local train that has been running since 1911....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hidetoshi Nishijima

National Audit Bureau member Hajime Matsudaira (Shinichi Tsutsumi), Tadako Torii (Haruka Ayase) & Asahi Gainsbourg (Masaki Okada) travel from their...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Haruka Ayase

Kazuhiko, a game software planner, resigns and decides to go independent after a trade secret leak to a rival company.

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Cast: Takaaki Enoki

An omnibus featuring the work of three different filmmakers.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

Physically separated from her father and at odds with her distraught mother, a girl must negotiate her own passage to maturity.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoko Tabata

A pampered young model is killed in a traffic accident. Given the chance to return to earth, she becomes involved with the advertising executive who...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

The Isokaze, an Aegis-class escort vessel, sets sail on a routine training exercise, playing host to a platoon from the Fleet Training Group. No...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroyuki Sanada

As the great military commander Nobunaga Oda was consolidating his power across Japan, one of his actions was to wipe out a clan of assassins,...

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

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Cast: Shinosuke Tatekawa

A celebration of the ancient art of Japanese rakugo, roughly translated as “comic storytelling”. The film is interspersed with numerous...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Tora-san visits brother-in-law Hiroshi's hometown to attend a memorial service for his late father. When the local temple priest becomes intoxicated,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiyoshi Atsumi

A middle-aged salaryman with a typical family, living quietly in a provincial city (Matsumoto, Nagano Prefecture), wakes up one morning in the summer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A chronicle of the life of Yasui Santetsu, a 17th century master of go who turned his attention to astronomy and created a new calendar for Japan....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Aoi Miyazaki

The story of Iwaki, a young brawler who becomes a professional criminal when he joins a Yakuza clan.

Genre: Action

Cast: Masaya Kato

The prominent lawyer Kinya Ohtsuka looks over the case of the falsely indicted man who was sentenced to life imprisonment and then committed suicide...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Ichikawa Ebizo XI

Director Ogata discovers a new female star in Koharu Tanaka, who works selling candy at a studio theater and she is given a part as a bit player....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

At Sakurada Gate in 1860, the shogun’s chief minister and his retinue of bodyguards are ambushed and annihilated. Bearing the responsibility...

Genre: History

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

In the present day, the local government of Katori City is in the process of sponsoring a taiga drama about its famous historical figure Tadataka...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Period piece about a samurai who marries a mysterious beautiful young woman who claims to have lost her memory.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Yuko Asano

One year has passed since the Kidojis' eldest son Otohiko was arrested for his part in a terrorist kidnapping, which resulted in multiple deaths....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

Film about Sakamoto Ryōma. The focus is on Oryo, the maid who became Ryoma’s wife and lived with him for one year before his death.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noritake Kinashi

Melodrama about a woman refusing surgery.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sayuri Yoshinaga

Guitarist Ko-chan is a mess of sexual repression after a childhood at the mercy of two elder sisters eager to use him as a guinea pig for their...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Shunsuke Nakamura

After six years away, D.A. Kuryu Kohei (Kimura Takuya) returns to his former Josai branch of the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office, just in...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Takuya Kimura

Assistant police inspector Aida is assigned to investigate the murder of a former gang member. When a justice ministry official is killed days later...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Rica and Kengo have been living together for the past four years. It's been a very happy time for Rica; the only dark spot being an accident she...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Tomoyo Harada

A treasure appears in front of antique dealer Norio Koike (Kiichi Nakai) and potter Sasuke (Kuranosuke Sasaki). The treasure is Hideyoshi...

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Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Defence lawyer Emi is assigned to a particularly unusual case: a man is suspected of murdering his wealthy wife, and his only alibi is a 421-year old...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

Remake of The Story of a Man Among Men (1984)

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A man's body is found under the statue of a winged kirin in the Nihombashi area of Tokyo. A suspect named Yashima has a car accident and falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hiroshi Abe

Drama set in the world of Formula 2 motor racing in Japan.

Genre: Action

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Japanese film icon Ken Takakura, who has starred in over 100 films, stars in this elegiac look at war and remembrance. Hideji Yamaoka (Takakura) was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ken Takakura

During a quest to find a Taiwanese father's grave, disturbing memories of child abuse are aroused.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mieko Harada

Jirocho (Kiichi Nakai), a fledgling bakuto who left his wife, goes on a year-long training with his minions: right-hand man and military master...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A family that was severely damaged by the Great East Japan Earthquake that struck in March 2011, and a family that escaped the disaster. The film...

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Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A romantic film about the spiritual exchange between a gangster and a Chinese woman who got married to him under false pretenses.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Mie’s father died during the aftermath of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. One day, she finds a bundle of unsent New Year’s...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

In the War's closing days, when a conscience-driven Japanese soldier fails to get his countrymen to surrender to overwhelming force, he adopts the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Koji Ishizaka

Ryuji Inahara changed the name of the Inahara-gumi to the Inahara-kai, and accordingly unified the emblem of the Inahara-kai. Then, in 1961,...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Denzaburo Kato, the third generation leader of the Horii family whose territory encompasses the Yokohama area, has a dramatic encounter at a certain...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

Ryuji Inahara, the heir to the Atami Yamazakiya family, subsequently placed the group under the control of the influential members of the Guretai,...

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Cast: Hiroki Matsukata

A lighthouse keeper and his family follow work from town to town, each time making new friends and receiving a visit from his troublesome father.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gō Katō

The last years of a painter, a tattoo artist, and a man who always pursues beauty regardless of authenticity. Why does the man insist that even his...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Masahiro Motoki

The morning variety show, a staple of television around the world, offers news and entertainment but TV host Shingo didn’t expect to be himself...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takakura. Collaborators, friends and family tell...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Yu Oh-seong

Stories depicting ordinary people revolving around ceremonial occasions. Without knowing that the funeral is for a yakuza member, an undertaker holds...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Chinese film directed by Jin Chen.

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Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Ryo, a young former banker, gets beaten up over a debt from gambling. A yakuza boss saves him, and Ryo decides to train to become a yakuza under him.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Takanori Jinnai

The story of a Japanese man who as a 16-year-old went to Maui to work in the sugar cane fields in order to support his family back in Japan. Now 89...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Chishū Ryū

Sakai is a city near Osaka by the bay famous for its swords in the old days and kitchen knives today. Norio is an antique dealer in the city. Sasuke...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

After 10 years of marriage, a couple finds itself walking on a small path in the mountains. Allowing them to discover one another.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kyoka Suzuki

Genre: Romance

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

After the death of previous Boss, a gang war lasts for more than four years.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A comedy about a concierge at a plush hotel who deals with a series of unusual guests.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Eri Fukatsu

Rival Chinese military strategists Sun Bin (Sun Honglei) and Pang Juan (Francis Ng) clash in this historic war adventure set during the Era of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sun Honglei

Keisuke Kuroda wakes up in a hospital bed unable to remember who he is. While sneaking out of the hospital, he sees a glimpse of the news and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Two childhood friends find themselves caught in the midst of an all-out turf war between rival factions in the yakuza-stained region of Kyushu.

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Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Remake of classic samurai film of 1932

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

Genre: Drama

Cast: Kiichi Nakai

A lavish retelling of the true story of the final voyage and ultimate destruction and sinking of the battleship Yamato, Japan's greatest flagship...

Genre: War

Cast: Keiju Kobayashi

Story of famed Japanese actress Kinuyo Tanaka, with an emphasis on her working relationship with director Kenji Mizoguchi.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bunta Sugawara

Genre: Drama

Cast: Keiko Matsuzaka

The central Kansai region of Japan is the setting for the historic cities of Sakai and Kyoto. Noda and Koike from We Make Antiques are back and...

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Cast: Kiichi Nakai

To combat rising crime and terrorist activities in Japan, the Japanese National Police Agency authorizes the formation of a secret motorcycle unit...

Genre: Action

Cast: Eita Nagayama

Emiko Hayasaka (Seiko Matsuda), who lives in Hawaii, has arranged a marriage with Akira Kuniyoshi (Shinji Yamashita), the son of the president of a...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Seiko Matsuda

Produced for Fuji TV in 2000, the film reinterprets the story of a special samurai force - the Shinsengumi - at the end of the Edo period.

Genre: Action

Cast: Atsuo Nakamura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ruriko Asaoka