Nenji Kobayashi — Actor (56)
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Nagasaki: Memories of My Son (2015) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
母と暮せば
director: Yoji Yamada actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Kazunari Ninomiya …
other title: Nagasaki : Memories of my Son / Nagasaki: Recuerdos de mi hijo …
Nobuko works in Nagasaki, Japan as a midwife. Her son died 3 years earlier from the atomic bomb. On August 9, 1948, her son appears in front of her again. Since that time, Koji appears in front of her and they reminiscence about pleasant times. These happy, but bizarre moments seem eternal.
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Violent Panic: The Big Crash (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
暴走パニック　大激突
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Tsunehiko Watase / Miki Sugimoto …
other title: Violent Panic : The Big Crash / 暴走パニック　大激突
Takashi, a bank robber, dreams of his final heist and escaping to Brazil... but in his way, stands a woman that loves him, his dead partner's brother, a corrupt cop, a motorcycle gang and every police officer in the Kanto region.
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The Classroom of Terror (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
暴力教室
director: Akihisa Okamoto actor: Yūsaku Matsuda / Hiroshi Tachi …
other title: The classroom of terror / 暴力教室
Yusaku Matsuda plays an ex-boxer who killed an opponent during a fight. He is brought into a school to deal with a gang of disruptive students led by Hiroshi Tachi.
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Virus (1980) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
復活の日
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Glenn Ford / Robert Vaughn …
other title: Ultimo rifugio: Antartide / Overkill - Durch die Hölle zur Ewigkeit …
Scientists in Antarctica desperately try to find a cure to a military virus that was released in a plane crash and has wiped out the rest of the world.
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The Drifting Classroom (1987) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
漂流教室
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Yasufumi Hayashi / Kiwako Harada …
other title: L'École emportée / 漂流教室
An entire Japanese international grade school—and all within—are mysteriously transported to a foreboding desert wasteland. As the story unfolds, the diminishing student body weathers this apocalyptic crisis while searching for clues about their surroundings, and dealing with psychological breakdown and dangerous exterior forces.
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Message from Space (1978) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
宇宙からのメッセージ
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Vic Morrow / Sonny Chiba …
other title: Sternenkrieg im Weltall / Les Évadés de l'espace …
The peaceful planet of Jillucia has been nearly wiped out by the Gavanas, whose leader takes orders from his mother rather than the Emperor. King Kaiba sends out eight Liabe holy seeds, each to be received by a chosen one to defend the Gavanas. Each recipient, ranging from hardened General Garuda to Gavana Prince Hans to young Terrans Meia, Kido, and Aaron all have different reactions to being chosen.
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Yakuza Wolf: I Perform Murder (1972) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
狼やくざ　殺しは俺がやる
director: Ryuichi Takamori actor: Sonny Chiba / Ryōji Hayama …
other title: Yakuza Wolf 1, I Perform Murder / 狼やくざ　殺しは俺がやる
A fearless man confronts a yakuza organization pushing the envelope of extravagant & all sorts of violence.
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Crazy Thunder Road (1980) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB WikiData TMDB Douban
狂い咲きサンダーロード
director: Gakuryu Ishii actor: Koji Nanjo / Tatsuo Yamada …
other title: 狂い咲きサンダーロード / 狂雷街区 …
When Ken, the leader of the once-notorious biker gang of Tokyo, falls in love with a barmaid, he quickly loses his rebellious ideals. The rest of the gang feels betrayed, especially the reputedly troubled kid Jin who revolts against his former friend.
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Nuns That Bite (1977) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB
女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧
director: 牧口雄二 actor: Haruka Tajima / ひろみ摩耶 …
other title: 여옥문첩 - 찢겨진 여승 / 女獄門帖　引き裂かれた尼僧 …
A woman on the run is raped, rescued, then raped again. Escaping, she heads for the hills and finds safe haven at a convent. After becoming a postulant (trainee nun), she catches her fellow sisters engaging in lesbianism, fighting over nothing, hurling snakes at each other, and engaging in mild flesh eating.
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Toire no kamisama (2011) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban
トイレの神様
director: 竹园元 actor: 北乃绮 / 岩下志麻 …
other title: 厕所女神 / トイレの神様 …
Kana Uemura's song "Toilet no Kamisama" turned into a 2-hour drama special on TBS. The song, which is nearly 10 minutes in length, tells of Uemura's relationship with her grandmother, from her childhood to her grandmother's death.
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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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Winter's Flower (1978) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
冬の華
director: 降旗康男 actor: 高仓健 / 池上季实子 …
other title: 冬之华 / 冬の華
由于讲意气被别人陷害杀了人的加纳来到了北海道服刑，他无法忘记被杀害的人的三岁女儿洋子的存在，于是他假扮成她的伯父，和她互赠礼物，洋子的成长是他唯一觉得开心的事情，这样，过了15年加纳的刑期满了，好像见到恋人一样，看到洋子，加纳就不再做坏事了……
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Coffee Jikou (2003) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb TMDB Douban
珈琲時光
director: 侯孝贤 actor: 一青窈 / Tadanobu Asano …
other title: 咖啡时光 / 珈琲時光 …
In a distinctly contemporary Tokyo that looks backwards to the city’s disappearing past, Yoko is a writer investigating the life of a modernist composer of the 1930s. She is pregnant by a man she does not want to marry and has found a kindred spirit in a used bookstore owner who aids her research.
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Under the Flag of the Rising Sun (1972) [Movie] TMDB
軍旗はためく下に
director: Kinji Fukasaku actor: Sachiko Hidari / Tetsuro Tamba …
other title: Sotto la bandiera del Sol Levante / Unter dem Banner der aufgehenden Sonne …
A war widow determined to clear the name of her disgraced husband, who was court-martialed for desertion and executed. Official records have been destroyed, and the ministry that distributes benefits continues to deny her a pension. Twenty-six years after the war, she seeks out four survivors of her husband's garrison. Each tells a dramatically different story about her husband's conduct, but she is determined to learn the truth.
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横山秀夫サスペンス 真相 (2005) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
director: 榎户耕史 actor: 小林稔侍 / 中田喜子 …
篠田佳男（小林稔侍）は地方都市で父の代からの会計事務所を営んでいる。家族は妻の美津子（中田喜子）、娘の美香（酒井彩名）、そして母の淑子（岩崎加根子）である。しかし、10年前にはもう一人家族がいた。長男の佳彦である。当時15歳の佳彦は何者かによって殺された。残された家族はどこの誰ともわからぬ犯人を恨みながら、10年間を生き抜いてきた。その間に淑子は脳梗塞で倒れ、美香は佳彦の友人・勇太（井澤健）と結婚して東京で暮らしていた。
そんな折、警察から佳男に「佳彦殺しの犯人が捕まった」と電話が入った。美津子と二人で警察署を訪ねると警察官から、別件で逮捕された鈴木という男を取り調べるなかで佳彦の事件が浮上したと説明される。鈴木は佳彦殺しを否認しているが佳彦の爪に残っていた血痕と皮膚のかけらがDNA鑑定で鈴木のものと一致したのだという。取材陣が殺到し、インタビューに答えるが佳男夫婦はいまひとつ実感がわかない。再び警察署に呼び出された佳男と美津子は意外な事実を知る。鈴木は相変わらず殺しは認めようとしなかったが佳彦から現金三千円と高価な腕時計を脅し取ったことを認めたのだ。そんな腕時計を買ってやった覚えのない佳彦は怪訝に思う。さらに鈴木は佳彦が書店で万引きしているところを目撃したと供述したという。佳彦は激怒した。「警察はそんなことを信じるのか」と興奮して詰め寄る佳男の様子は、傍目にも尋常ではなかった…。
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Station (1981) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB
駅
director: 降旗康男 actor: 高仓健 / 倍赏千惠子 …
other title: 车站 / 駅 …
A detective goes out of his way to crack the case of a serial killer who specialises in murdering police officers.
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Funôhan (2017) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
director: 白石晃士 actor: 松坂桃李 / 泽尻英龙华 …
other title: 不能犯
《不能犯》改编自宫月新原著、神崎裕也作画的同名漫画，里面的主人公“电话亭之男”（松坂桃李）是一名类似于《死亡笔记》中夜神月的暗黑英雄，专杀那些本身有罪但没有受到法律惩戒的人。
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About Her Brother (2010) [Movie] NeoDB Douban
おとうと
director: 山田洋次 actor: 苍井优 / 加濑亮 …
other title: 年轻的弟弟 / 给弟弟的安眠曲(港) …
东京一隅，温柔善良的高野吟子（吉永小百合 饰）独自打理着去世丈夫留下来的药店。过去的20年里，她和婆婆、女儿小春（蒼井優 饰）住在一起，虽颇多艰辛，但日子平淡幸福。如今，女儿将要嫁作人妻，吟子喜悦之余仍不免有所忧虑。原来在丈夫13周年忌辰上，她的弟弟铁郎（笑福亭鹤瓶 饰）醉酒胡闹，惹得亲朋不快。吟子和哥哥庄平（小林稔侍 饰）有意瞒着弟弟，然而得到消息的铁郎依旧欢喜前来，而且照例醉酒闹事。铁郎的举动不仅让家人颜面尽失，也影响了小春的婚姻。此后的日子里，这个年过半百却总也长不大的弟弟成为了姐姐久久无法割舍的牵绊……
本片为日本国宝级导演山田洋次向市川昆致敬之作，受邀参加第60届柏林影展，并荣获电影节特别奖。