Kō Nakahira — Director (35)
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Temptation (1957) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
誘惑
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Koreya Senda / Sachiko Hidari …
other title: 誘惑
Shokichi, the owner of the clothing store, lives with his daughter Hideko and plans to open an art gallery. One day, Hideko led a handsome art student, Shohei and a poor painter, Sohei. Sohei’s painting was praised by a great printer at the completion ceremony of the art gallery. Since he became successful as a painter, but he looked quite indifferent. Around the same time, Shohei’s sister brought Sohei’s pictures to the gallery and Shokichi noticed that she was a daughter of his first love.
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The Mud-Spattered Pure Heart (1963) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
泥だらけの純情
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Sayuri Yoshinaga / Mitsuo Hamada …
other title: 泥だらけの純情
Jiro, a young yakuza, and Mami, a diplomat’s daughter, are two young lovers from different worlds. Having met by accident, they soon discover a new life together. But their love is ill-fated. Mami's family will not accept her choice, while leading an honest life seems like an unattainable goal for Jiro. Can there be anything else but a tragic ending?
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The Black Gambler: The Gambling Syndicate (1965) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
黒い賭博師
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Akira Kobayashi / Manami Fuji …
other title: The Black Gambler / 黒い賭博師
Place your bets! Koji Himuro (Akira Kobayashi) is a makeout artist with unparalleled gambling skills. Shortly after his return to Tokyo, he is invited to attend a reception being held at the Suvenian Embassy of Tokyo. This “reception” was an undercover gambling operation that was run by an international gambling syndicate. Up against a cardsharp by the name of Inumaru and his mistress Reiko, Koji plays a flawless game of Seven Bridge. Outraged by his loss, Inumaru orders Reiko to stalk Koji like a shadow.
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Only on Mondays (1964) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
月曜日のユカ
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Mariko Kaga / Tanie Kitabayashi …
other title: Les Lundis de Yuka / 月曜日のユカ
Yuka is a “good-time girl” from Yokohama who is persuaded by her papa to sleep with a foreign business executive so that he can close an important deal. Nakahira presents a shrewdly observed portrait of a modern, sexually assertive woman—an unsettling character for a changing but still patriarchal society.
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Rika 2: Lonely Wanderer (1973) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
混血児リカ ひとりゆくさすらい旅
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Rika Aoki / Toru Minegishi …
other title: 混血児リカ ひとりゆくさすらい旅
Rica wanting a fresh start leaves her friends and past life behind or at least that is what she thinks as trouble always seems to find her. Rica's looks into a ship that exploded and everyone who survived this disaster who comes in contact with her dies. Rica only chance of solving the mystery of the sunken ship is if she can locate a old friend of hers who just happened to be on that ship the night it blew up.
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The Black Gambler: Left Hand of the Devil (1966) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
黒い賭博師　悪魔の左手
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Akira Kobayashi / Misa Hirose …
other title: 黒い賭博師　悪魔の左手 / The Black Gambler Left Hand Of The Devil
The fictional land "Pandora" sends three (numbered) graduates of the "National Gambling University" to Japan. You should defeat the master player Kôji, control the international casino empire and use the profits to achieve world domination. But Japan's most famous left hand knows what to do.
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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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That Guy and I (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
あいつと私
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Yūjirō Ishihara / Izumi Ashikawa …
other title: あいつと私
Asada Keiko and Kurokawa Saburo are two young college students. When Keiko visits Saburo's house, she meets his father Kokichi and his mother Motoko. Motoko is a famous hair dresser, who openly flaunts her lover. When Kokichi and Motoko fight, which they do a lot, he routinely threatens to leave but never quite does. A relationship develops between Saburo and Keiko, but Saburo is shaken when his mother tells Keiko the truth about Saburo's past and the secret of his birth.
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Trapeze Girl (1967) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
飛天女郎
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Fang Ying / Elliot Ngok Wah …
other title: 飛天女郎
A young girl runs away from her abusive father to join a group of circus performance, expecting that one day she would be a greatest trapeze artist. Later, she falls in love with one of the members of the circus staff who used to be a trapeze performer in previous times.
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Summer Heat (1968) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb
狂戀詩
director: 中平康 actor: 胡燕妮 / 金汉 …
other title: 狂戀詩 / 狂恋诗 …
A gripping drama about a seductive woman with three men in her life: a rich husband ; a sexy playboy, and a sensitive intellectual. That two of her lovers are brothers further complicates the story.