Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi — Actor (26)
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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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Ryuji, the Gun Slinger (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
拳銃無頼帖　抜き射ちの竜
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Keiichirō Akagi / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 拳銃無頼帖　抜き射ちの竜
When Ryuji - the Gun Slinger, a drug addict leaves hospital to which he was taken after a gunfight by a notorious killer named Gin of Colt, he is employed as a bodyguard by Yo Sangen, chief of a narcotics smuggling ring.
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A Warm Misty Night (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
夜霧よ今夜も有難う
director: Mio Ezaki actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Ruriko Asaoka …
other title: 夜霧よ今夜も有難う / Yogiri yo Kon'yamo Arigatō
When Toru Sagara (Yujiro Ishihara) returns home from a foreign cargo route, he proposes to his beloved girlfriend Akiko (Ruriko Asaoka). She joyously agrees, promising a life together. On the day they were to be joined in matrimony, Akiko suddenly goes missing. Toru waits hours for her to show, but he is only greeted by the darkness of night. Four years later, his fiancée turns up at a night club in Yokohama with another man.
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Roar of the City (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
都会の怒号
director: Masahisa Sunohara actor: Kyōji Aoyama / Hisako Tsukuba …
other title: 都会の怒号
This action drama depicts a horrifying murder case over a photo of a mysterious beautiful woman hidden in a wallet, and the justice and love-hate relationship between the men involved in the case.
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The Street Without Sun (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
太陽のない街
director: Satsuo Yamamoto actor: Sumiko Hidaka / Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi …
other title: 太陽のない街 / Taiyō no nai Machi …
Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers' steadfastness, which neither hunger nor violence could break. The heroine of this story actively participates in her colleagues' struggle against layoffs, oppression, and police brutality.
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A Turning to Hell (1959) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
地獄の曲り角
director: Koreyoshi Kurahara actor: Ryōji Hayama / Mihoko Inagaki …
other title: 地獄の曲り角
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.
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The Balloon (1956) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
風船
director: Yūzō Kawashima actor: Masayuki Mori / Tatsuya Mihashi …
other title: 風船 / Fūsen
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.
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Dancing Girl (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
舞姫
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Mieko Takamine / So Yamamura …
other title: La Danseuse / La bailarina …
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.
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The Eagle of the Pacific (1953) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
太平洋の鷲
director: Ishirō Honda actor: Denjirō Ōkōchi / Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi …
other title: Operazione kamikaze / Eagle Of The Pacific …
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.
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Song of the Underworld (1956) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Chitei no uta
director: Haruyasu Noguchi actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Hiroshi Nawa …
other title: Chitei no uta
A conflict between two yakuza families in Tokyo, the Izus and the Yoshidas, has recently broken out. When an Izu underling starts a fight with a Yoshida man, Fuyu, the Izu family sends Tsuruta, a senior member of the clan, to make a personal apology to Fuyu. Tsuruta discovers that the woman he is in love with is Fuyu's sister, Tatsuko. Tsuruta ends up gambling with a swindler, who is in fact Tatsuko's husband. (The general plot of the film was re-used for Seijun Suzuki's Kanto Wanderer).
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Red Pier (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
赤い波止場
director: Toshio Masuda actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Mie Kitahara …
other title: 赤い波止場
Shortly after arriving in Kobe, "Jiro the Lefty", a killer with a natural talent, witnesses a man die in a crane accident which turns out to be a cover-up for a murder. Jiro soon finds himself on the run, tailed by a determined cop.