Ryutaro Nagai Movies

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

During a battle against Destron's forces, Shiro Kazami helps a priest who has been attacked by the evil organization's kaijin Hasami-Jaguar. Little...

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

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

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"...

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

Based on the novel by Kojin Shimomura. Story of a young boy and his adventures in the country. His idyllic life is shattered by the illness and death...

Japanese film.

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance...

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

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 Yokohama's Chinatown.

Japanese drama.

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.