Tomo'o Nagai — Actor (33)
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Crime Reporter (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
事件記者
director: Tokujirō Yamazaki actor: Tomo'o Nagai / Yoshio Ōmori …
other title: 事件記者
The story centers on the fierce competition among newspaper reporters stationed at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department as they race to break major scoops. Alongside this, the film humorously depicts a rookie reporter who grows while repeatedly making mistakes. The first film in a series adapted from an NHK TV drama. Focused on those who work at the 'Sakurada Press Club', the home base of crime reporters who pursue exclusive stories in a corner of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.
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Shishun no izumi (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
思春の泉
director: Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Sachiko Hidari / Ken Utsui …
other title: 思春の泉 / The Grass Cutter Girl
The long-awaited haymaking season has arrived on the island of Honshu. Work is in full swing in the fields, with young and old alike toiling away. For the young woman Moyoko and the young man Tokizo, it is more fun than work. Both are young, cheerful, excited by the shared anticipation of the harvest festival, and not yet aware that they are beginning to fall in love with each other. That is why the first timid hint of confession causes such turmoil in their souls and almost leads to a serious quarrel. Their quarrelsome aunts did the lovers a disservice...
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Stepbrothers (1957) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
異母兄弟
director: Miyoji Ieki actor: Kinuyo Tanaka / Rentaro Mikuni …
other title: 異母兄弟 / Les Demi-frères …
In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.
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The Day the Sun Rose (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
祇園祭
director: Tetsuya Yamanouchi actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Toshirō Mifune …
other title: O Momento da Revolta / 祇園祭 …
Shinkichi, a peasant employed as a cloth-dyer, has a dream: in the midst of the civil war which ravages Japan, he hopes to revive the long-banned custom of the Kyoto Gion Festival, and by doing so, bring together the warring clans and rampaging brigands in peaceful celebration.
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Messengers to Satsuma (1982) [Movie] TMDB
薩摩飛脚
director: Kazuo Mori actor: Mikijiro Hira / Kiwako Taichi …
other title: 薩摩飛脚
By all indications, an anti-government conspiracy is brewing in the Satsuma Domain. Already seven oniwaban spies sent by the shogunate have infiltrated Satsuma in order to scout everything on the spot. However, they had all disappeared, and it was unclear whether they were alive or dead. Kenzaburo Kamiya and Iori Matsumura successfully infiltrate as the eighth and ninth spies and witness law-breaking exercises using a cannon. However, soon Satsuma men found them and drove them to the cliff...
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Mist and Shadows (1961) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
霧と影
director: Teruo Ishii actor: Tetsuro Tamba / Tatsuo Umemiya …
other title: 霧と影
A veteran reporter and a young journalist doggedly pursue clues through sheer persistence and intuition to unravel the mystery behind the sudden death of a teacher in the remote Hokuriku region. In pursuit of the truth, they are led to a web of corporate fraud, an inbred village, bundles of toilet paper, and flatfoots with something to hide as the bodies pile up.
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3,000 Kilometer Trap (1971) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
3000キロの罠
director: Jun Fukuda actor: Jirō Tamiya / Kaori Taniguchi …
other title: 3000キロの罠
A young man has to deliver a Mitsubishi Galant GTO from Kagoshima (on the southern tip of the southern Japanese island of Kyushu) 3000 kilometers across the length of Japan to the northern island of Hokkaido.
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The Seasons of Love (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
四季の愛欲
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Isuzu Yamada / Shōji Yasui …
other title: 四季の愛欲
A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by his wife, one daughter is forced to marry an older man against her will, while the other has retreated into smug moral superiority.
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Ten Duels of Young Shingo: Chapter 1 (1981) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
新吾十番勝負1
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Toshirō Mifune / Tomoyuki Kunihiro …
other title: 新吾十番勝負1
The classic tale of the shogun's illegitimate son Aoi Shingo is told in three parts as he strives to become the greatest fencer in Japan, while his father Shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune seeks to reunite with his lost son.  Part 1 sets up the story and introduces the characters.  When the secrets of Shingo's birth are revealed to him, it sets off a series of events that bring him to cross swords with members of the shogun's inner circle. 
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Flower and Dragon: Duel of the Sea Caves (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
続花と龍 洞海湾の決斗
director: Kōsaku Yamashita actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Yoshiko Sakuma …
other title: 続花と龍 洞海湾の決斗
The sequel of "Flower and Dragon". Kingoro Tamai founded a family in the port of Wakamatsu. He unites people with his courage, and revolts against the entrepreneur Oki Nakashi, who is teeming with vices. Kingoro and his family are also forced to fight against the Ezaki-Gumi group, which is opposed by Tomoda Kizo, who is trying to control the port of Wakamatsu.
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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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To Trap a Kidnapper (1982) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
誘拐報道
director: Shunya Ito actor: Kenichi Hagiwara / Rumiko Koyanagi …
other title: 誘拐報道 / Yūkai hōdō
Hideyuki Mitamura, a student at a private school near Osaka, is kidnapped on his way home from school.
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Black River (1957) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
黒い河
director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Fumio Watanabe / Ineko Arima …
other title: La Rivière noire / Río Negro …
A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.