Kō Nishimura — Actor (110)
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Wait for Tomorrow (1960) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
あした晴れるか
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: あした晴れるか
Kohei Misugi works in a vegetable market, but his ambition is to be a photographer. He is given his first opportunity to demonstrate his talent by the Sakura Film Company which offers him an assignment to "Cover Tokyo" with a camera. But he is disillusioned when he is told he must work together with Miharu, a good looking girl in the film company's publicity department. Then the fun begins.
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Harbor Rats (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
海の野郎ども
director: Kaneto Shindō actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 海の野郎ども
A scrap iron carrier arrived at Tokyo bay. The ship swarmed with the stevedores, the souvenir seller and the hookers. The crews of ship were oppressed by arrogant captain and his officers. The crews caused an uprising. A manager of stevedore ordered his employee leader to suppress an uprising...
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The Eagle and the Hawk (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
鷲と鷹
director: Umetsugu Inoue actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 鷲と鷹 / Washi to taka …
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.
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Tale of Japanese Burglars (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
にっぽん泥棒物語
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Rentaro Mikuni / Yūnosuke Itō …
other title: Les Contes du voleur japonais / にっぽん泥棒物語
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 communists are found guilty of causing the incident, but he knows it wasn't them. He can save innocent people but for that he must confess his own crime.
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Play It Cool (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
でんきくらげ
director: Yasuzō Masumura actor: Mari Atsumi / Yūsuke Kawazu …
other title: La Méduse électrique / でんきくらげ
This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming a dressmaker are shattered.... She then becomes a nightclub hostess who plays cards with male patrons using her body as the prize.
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Kukai (1984) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
空海
director: 佐藤纯弥 actor: 北大路欣也 / 加藤刚 …
other title: 空海 / Kûkai
The life and times of Kûkai, a Japanese monk who studies Esoteric Buddhism in the far reaches of India, China and Tibet, then uses their combined influence to establish the Shingon school during the Heian period in early 9th Century AD.
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A Killer's Key (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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 IMDb WikiData
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 WikiData IMDb
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] TMDB IMDb
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] IMDb WikiData TMDB
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.