Ryutaro Nagai Movies

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

As Japan's economic growth policies intensify, small-scale farmers embark on a first-ever communal dairy farming initiative in their village. They...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...

The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.

An onnagata (female impersonator) of a Kabuki troupe avenges his parents' deaths. Remade in 1963 as Yukinojô Henge.

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

1940 Japanese movie

1956 Japanese film, originally released in two parts.

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...

In this movie, Sashichi tries to catch a serial killer who kills his victims with shurikens.

The 1st movie in the Kobushidake denki series.

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

Period film from 1934.

Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.

A narrative rakugo film depicting the struggles of people desperately living under wartime conditions.