Ryutaro Nagai Movies

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

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

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...

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

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

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

The story of five sisters.

Second movie in the Sakura Code series.

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...

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 spectacular comedy with a star-studded cast that depicts unusual trials and unexpected verdicts regarding the five deadly sins: the crime of...

Based on the story of Shimizu no Jirocho.

Japanese drama.

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

A mournful masterpiece by Kinugasa Teinosuke

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.

1956 Japanese film, originally released in three parts.