Kō Nishimura — Actor (59)
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A Killer's Key (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ある殺し屋の鍵
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Raizō Ichikawa / Kō Nishimura …
other title: ある殺し屋の鍵
A lone wolf assassin, masquerading as a traditional dance instructor named Nitta, is called in to avert a potential financial scandal that threatens to engulf a powerful yakuza group with ties to influential figures in the political establishment.
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Killers on Parade (1961) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
夕陽に赤い俺の顔
director: Masahiro Shinoda actor: Yūsuke Kawazu / Shima Iwashita …
other title: Mon Visage embrasé au Soleil couchant / Mi rostro enrojecido al amanecer …
A vengeful contractor hires a series of young killers to target a woman muckraker. Trouble brews when an amateur marksman shows up his eclectic competition.
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Zero Focus (1961) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
ゼロの焦点
director: Yoshitarō Nomura actor: Yoshiko Kuga / Hizuru Takachiho …
other title: Le Foyer zéro / ゼロの焦点 …
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
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The Threat (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
脅迫
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: Chantage / 脅迫
Two escaped criminals who kidnapped a baby break into the house of Misawa, a man who works in an advertising agency and lives quietly with his family. They will force him to collect the child's ransom for them.
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The Desperate (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
どろ犬
director: Takaharu Saeki actor: Minoru Ōki / Chisako Hara …
other title: どろ犬
A noir drama depicting the downfall of a veteran detective who hates evil and falls into its depths. Ace detective Sugai pursues Chiyo, the mistress of a man who was arrested for extortion, and takes advantage of her weakness. However, as his colleague Tokumochi and others regard him with suspicion, he is tormented by remorse.
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The Bride from Hades (1968) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
牡丹燈籠
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Miyoko Akaza / Kōjirō Hongō …
other title: 牡丹燈籠 / Peony Lantern …
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.
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The Pirates of Buban (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
ブブアンの海賊
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Shōhei Imamura / Kō Nishimura …
other title: ブブアンの海賊
By going to the Philippines, Imamura comes to meet people living in an extreme poverty. He discovers very quickly that some communities are under the control of cruel & armed pirates. Imamura will come to meet those men in order to understand their position.
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House of Terrors (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
怪談せむし男
director: Hajime Sato actor: Kō Nishimura / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: Il pozzo di Satana / Le fantôme du bossu …
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.
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Black Rose Mansion (1969) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
黒薔薇の館
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Kikko Matsuoka / Kō Nishimura …
other title: La Demeure de la rose noire / 黒薔薇の館
When wealthy Kyohei hires singer "Black Rose" to perform in his exclusive club, he gets more than he bargains for when she attracts scores of homicidal past lovers. The film takes a bizarre twist when Kyohei's son falls victim to the femme fatale's unique charm.
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Gorath (1962) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
妖星ゴラス
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Ryō Ikebe / Yumi Shirakawa …
other title: Ufos zerstören die Erde / Le Choc des planètes …
In 1976, a drifting star named Gorath is discovered to be on a collision course with Earth. Although it is smaller than Earth, its enormous mass is enough to destroy the planet totally. A mission sent to observe Gorath is destroyed after the ship is drawn into the star, with a later mission barely escaping the same fate. However, Astronaut Tatsuma Kanai is left in a catatonic state due to his near death experience. Unable to destroy the invading star, Earth's scientists undertake a desperate plan to build giant rockets at the South Pole to move the planet out of Gorath's path before it is too late.
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Living Skeleton (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
吸血髑髏船
director: Hiroshi Matsuno actor: Kikko Matsuoka / Yasunori Irikawa …
other title: The living Skeleton / 吸血髑髏船 …
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...
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The Glamorous Ghost (1964) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
散歩する霊柩車
director: Hajime Sato actor: Kō Nishimura / Masumi Harukawa …
other title: 散歩する霊柩車
Based on the novel by Naoki Prize-nominated author Taro Takeshita, a thriller full of black humor. A jealous husband murders his adulterous wife, then embarks on a crusade to extort all the wealthy men whom she had affairs with.
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Everything Goes Wrong (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
すべてが狂ってる
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Tamio Kawachi / Yoshiko Nezu …
other title: On devient tous fous / すべてが狂ってる …
Everything goes wrong when Jiro tries to break up his mother's relationship with a business man. The young rebel Jiro has to deal with an environment of crime and prostitution, and the impact of its choices on personal relationships: one with his mother, one with her business man lover and one with the girl in love with him.
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Doggie March (1963) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
わんわん忠臣蔵
director: Daisaku Shirakawa actor: Chiyoko Honma / Fumitake Ōmura …
other title: La chuushingura ouaf-ouaf / Rock el valiente …
It tells the story of Rock, a puppy whose mother is killed by a tiger and a fox. To fulfill his revenge, will achieve together a large number of animals. An animated collaboration between Osamu Tezuka and Toei Animation.
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Stolen Desire (1958) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData
盗まれた欲情
director: 今村昌平 actor: 长门裕之 / 南田洋子 …
other title: 被偷盗的情欲 / 盗まれた欲情 …
A rambunctious and ribald tale of a troupe of travelling actors who alternate highlights of kabuki theatre with strip shows.
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Endless Desire (1958) [Movie] NeoDB WikiData Douban TMDB IMDb
果しなき欲望
director: Shōhei Imamura actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Misako Watanabe …
other title: Desiderio inappagato / Desejo Insaciável …
Set in post-war Japan, a group of five, four men and one woman, gathers in the basement of a butcher shop to dig up a cache of morphine buried during the war. A grimly humorous tale of twisted relationships as one by one each of the group is eliminated.
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Japan's Don (1977) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban
やくざ戦争 日本の首領
director: 中岛贞夫 actor: 鹤田浩二 / 松方弘树 …
other title: 黑社会战争：日本的首领 / やくざ戦争 日本の首領 …
A yakuza leader must balance his violent tactics necessary for the rough streets of 1960s Tokyo with the domestic needs of his daughters.
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Intentions of Murder (1964) [Movie] Douban IMDb NeoDB TMDB
赤い殺意
director: 今村昌平 actor: 春川真澄 / 西村晃 …
other title: 赤色杀机 / 赤い殺意 …
The neglected common-law wife of a Japanese librarian is repeatedly harassed by a young man with a heart condition who seduces her with the prospect of a better life.
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The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) [Movie] TMDB
脱獄広島殺人囚
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Hiroki Matsukata / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: 脱獄広島殺人囚
Convicted of murder, Masayuki Ueda is sent to Hiroshima Prison along with his accomplice. But for a man like him, breaking out of prison is easy.