Kō Nishimura Movies

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic...

Third part in Tadashi Sawashima's Theater of Life trilogy.

Gisuke Hayashida is an illegal dentist during the day and a burglar by night. One night during a burglary he witnesses a train derailment. Some...

A mountain bandit abducts a woman who demands he kill his other wives to please her, leading to a cycle of violence and madness fueled by...

Kisuke, a young bamboo worker marries Tomoe, a courtesan who was once involved with Kisuke's late father.

Based off of the novel, "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" and the ballet "The Nutcracker" Sanrio shows their take on the classic story in a...

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

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

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave. Since the man...

A fresh graduate from a university in Tokyo takes a job as an English teacher at a prestigious high school in Kobe. However, shortly after arriving,...

Edo Crime Book: Black Claws

This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of...

A horse-riding samurai fights villains.

A botanist woos the secretary of an industrialist whose company threatens the local water supply.

Set in the post-World War II climate of the 1960s in Kobe, the movie explores the struggle for power within the powerful Manpyo family.

A wandering gambler runs into a young swindler woman working with an old man. They are both arrested by a detective. A year later, the gambler is...