Kō Nakahira — Director (35)
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The Passionate Spinster (1965)
結婚相談 IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Izumi Ashikawa / Kumeko Urabe …
other title: 結婚相談
She'd watched them go one by one. Friend after friend. White dress after another. Yet again, Shimako was attending another wedding reception that wasn't hers. She knew the procedure: watch the bride and groom get congratulated, smile to cover up the loneliness. But she didn't want to feel like this forever. In that moment, Shimako decided that the next wedding she'd attend had to be her own.
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I Have the Sun in My Back (1963)
俺の背中に陽が当る WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Mitsuo Hamada / Sayuri Yoshinaga …
other title: 俺の背中に陽が当る
Shigeru is a young man who works as a window cleaner. His older brother Kenzo has just returned from prison and is determined to start life anew. But a battle for leadership within his old gang causes him to be framed for murder. Shigeru sets out to uncover the truth to clear his name.
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Bastards Without Borders (1965)
野郎に国境はない IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Akira Kobayashi / Yasushi Suzuki …
other title: 野郎に国境はない
Counterfeit Japanese dollars are connected to a large-scale underground drug organization. An action masterpiece with Akira Kobayashi, in the role of an international secret police officer who challenges organizations throughout the world.
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The Lucky General (1962)
当りや大将 IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Hiroyuki Nagato / Yukiko Todoroki …
other title: 当りや大将
The action takes place in a city where you can live on only 100 yen a day. The "General", who indulged in gambling with his henchmen all day, he was running his business and hitting him with a taxi turned out to be a trifle for him. A unique work, filled with tears and laughter, praising the beautiful human love that blooms at the bottom of life, focused on the genius “General” who lives in the troubled city of Kamagasaki.
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The Young and Bad (1962)
若くて悪くて凄いこいつら IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Hideki Takahashi / Masako Izumi …
other title: 若くて悪くて凄いこいつら
Not too long ago, Soichiro was considered one of the most powerful men in business. But his business had failed, his granddaughter had committed suicide. There was nothing in his life anymore that he could look forward to. Sochiro was ready to put an to it end to all. As he drives down the Usui Pass, headed toward his summer house in Karuizawa, a girl in red heels, wearing nothing else but a coat jumps in front of the car.
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Bright Sea (1963)
光る海 WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Mitsuo Hamada …
other title: 光る海 / La Mer étincelante
On the day of college graduation, Mieko (Sayuri Yoshinaga) stood on stage as the valedictorian for the Department of English. During her university years she made sure that she would always come out on top, and she did. With a victorious graduation behind her, she plans out the next chapter of her life: become a successful novelist and go out with a classmate she's been secretly eyeing for the past couple of years.
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The Seasons of Love (1958)
四季の愛欲 IMDb TMDB
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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Whirlpool of Flesh (1964)
おんなの渦と淵と流れ IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Kazuko Inano …
other title: おんなの渦と淵と流れ
During the war a university professor meets a girl and marries her. Very soon however, it is apparent that their needs are not matched. He would much rather be translating Shakespeare than attending to her, and she has a secret in her past - one that results in her sleeping with a great number of men.
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Crimson Wings (1958)
紅の翼 IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: 紅の翼
At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company's office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong...
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Frankie the Milkman (1956)
牛乳屋フランキー IMDb TMDB
Kō Nakahira actor: Frankie Sakai / Sumiko Minami …
other title: 牛乳屋フランキー
Roppeita is big in size, clumsy and full of energy. When his grandfather orders him to move out to Tokyo to save a sinking milk delivery business a distant relative of his runs, he encounters the most strangest of clientele.