Ryutaro Nagai Movies

Period film from 1934.

An early fantasy film starring Tomisaburô Wakayama.

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

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

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

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...

Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.

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...

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

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...

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

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder, but are too scared to report it to the police. In the meantime, an innocent man is...

Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke