Noboru Nakaya — Actor (17)
Kwaidan (1965) [Movie] TMDB Douban NeoDB IMDb WikiData
怪談
8.8 (5 ratings) director: Masaki Kobayashi actor: Michiyo Aratama / Rentaro Mikuni
other title: Kwaidan - Storie di fantasmi / Kwaïdan
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Lady Snowblood (1973) [Movie] TMDB NeoDB IMDb Douban WikiData
修羅雪姫
8.3 (11 ratings) director: Toshiya Fujita actor: Meiko Kaji / Toshio Kurosawa
other title: Lady Snowblood: Blizzard from the Netherworld / 修羅雪姫
Yuki's family is nearly wiped out before she is born due to the machinations of a band of criminals. These criminals kidnap and brutalize her mother but leave her alive. Later her mother ends up in prison with only revenge to keep her alive. She creates an instrument for this revenge by purposefully getting pregnant. Yuki never knows the love of a family but only killing and revenge.
Hitokiri (1969) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban TMDB
人斬り
director: Hideo Gosha actor: Shintarō Katsu / Tatsuya Nakadai
other title: Tenchu! / 人斩
A ronin desperately seeks a way out of financial straits; he allies with the Tosa clan under the ruthless leader Takechi, who quickly takes advantage.
A Scream from Nowhere (1977) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
江戸川乱歩の陰獣
director: Tai Katō actor: Teruhiko Aoi / Yoshiko Kayama
other title: 江戸川乱歩の陰獣
In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.
The Adventures of Kosuke Kindaichi (1979) [Movie] TMDB
金田一耕助の冒険
director: Nobuhiko Obayashi actor: Ikko Furuya / Kunie Tanaka
other title: 金田一耕助の冒険
Obayashi's take on the famous Kosuke Kindaichi series, made popular partly thanks to the numerous movie-adaptions by Kon Ichikawa, the most known being The Inugami Family. Kosuke Kindaichi is the most famous detective in Japan. Kindaichi gets a new case to figure out who has beheaded a valuable statue and made off with its head.
Suspicion (1982) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb WikiData TMDB Douban
疑惑
director: Yoshitaro Nomura actor: Kaori Momoi / Shima Iwashita
other title: 疑惑 / 의혹
A car going at 25 mph plunges into the sea at Shinko Harbour, Toyama prefecture. Inside is the local business magnate Fukutaro Shirakawa, who perishes. Riding alongside him and surviving unhurt is his second wife, Kumako. It soon comes to light that Kumako’s husband was insured for 300 million yen and she is arrested on suspicion of murdering her husband for the insurance money. The newspapers denounce her as an evil woman, while the public is in no doubt about Kumako’s crime. Ritsuko Sahara is chosen as her defence attorney but the pair clash over almost everything...
A Wanderer's Notebook (1962) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB Douban WikiData IMDb
放浪記
director: Mikio Naruse actor: Hideko Takamine / Akira Takarada
other title: Hourou-ki / Chronique de mon vagabondage
Considered one of the finest late Naruses and a model of film biography, A Wanderer’s Notebook features remarkable performances by Hideko Takamine – Phillip Lopate calls it “probably her greatest performance” – and Kinuyo Tanaka as mother and daughter living from hand to mouth in Twenties Tokyo. Based on the life and career of Fumiko Hayashi, the novelist whose work Naruse adapted to the screen several times, A Wanderer’s Notebook traces her bitter struggle for literary recognition in the first half of the twentieth century – her affairs with feckless men, the jobs she took to survive (peddler, waitress, bar maid), and her arduous, often humiliating attempts to get published in a male-dominated culture.
Commotion at Ikedaya (1961) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
池田屋騒動
director: Ryohei Yanagihara actor: Noboru Nakaya
other title: 池田屋騒動
Independent film by Yanagihara Ryouhei, member of the Animation Sannin no Kai pioneer group of independent animation. It tells the story of the Ikedaya raid by the Shinsengumi from the point of view of the neighbors of the Ikedaya.
A Tale of Sorrow and Sadness (1977) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
悲愁物語
director: Seijun Suzuki actor: Yōko Shiraki / Kyōko Enami
other title: Story of Sorrow and Sadness / 悲愁物語
A rookie golfer must cope with the stress of fame after a marketing executive transforms her into a sports celebrity.
El apocalipsis del planeta de los simios (1987) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Time of the Apes
director: Kiyozumi Fukazawa / Atsuo Okunaka actor: Reiko Tokunaga / Hiroko Saito
other title: 3001 - Zeit der Affen / Time of the Apes
Versión sintetizada en largometraje de la serie "Saru no Gundam" (1974), basada en el film "El planeta de los simios".
The Hunter's Diary (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
猟人日記
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Masako Togawa
other title: 猟人日記
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another...
G.I. Samurai (1979) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
戦国自衛隊
director: Kōsei Saitō actor: Sonny Chiba / Isao Natsuyagi
other title: Time Slip - Der Tag der Apokalypse / Les Guerriers de l'Apocalypse
A squadron of Japanese Self-Defense Force soldiers find themselves transported through time to their country's warring states era, when rival samurai clans were battling to become the supreme Shogun.
Flora on the Sand (1964) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
砂の上の植物群
director: Kō Nakahira actor: Noboru Nakaya / Kazuko Inano
other title: Plantas de la Duna / 砂の上の植物群
One evening, at the Marine Tower observatory, cosmetics salesman Ichiro Iki is drawn into conversation with an unfamiliar young lady Akiko. She invites Ichiro back to a hotel where they make love but part without even exchanging names. A week later, they have a second chance encounter at the observatory. This time, Ichiro is the one who pursues her. Back at the hotel, Akiko begs Ichiro to give her sister – Kyoko, a bar hostess – absolute hell. Akiko resents her sister for lecturing on chastity, while wantonly indulging in promiscuous activity. Ichiro takes an interest in Kyoko and sets out towards her bar…
The Ambitious (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
幕末
director: Daisuke Itō actor: Kinnosuke Nakamura / Toshirō Mifune
other title: Bakumatsu / 幕末
The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well as the Loyalists for desiring the opening of Japan to the West in order to learn its technology, in the hopes of one day defeating the West with a modern army and navy.
Megabeast Investigator Juspion (1985) [TV] IMDb WikiData TMDB
巨獣特捜ジャスピオン
other title: O Fantástico Jaspion! / Jaspion
Juspion's parents were killed by space pirates when he was a baby. After escaping to the planet Eijin, he is raised by a space hermit.

He eventually embarks on a quest to fight the Mega beasts and defeat Satan Gorth. Hetravels from planet to planet until he finally arrives on Earth. Wearing a special suit, he has super human powers and a transforming spaceship.