Nobuo Nakagawa — Director (28)
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Shishun no izumi (1953)
思春の泉 WikiData IMDb TMDB
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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Enoken's Yaji and Kita (1939)
エノケンの弥次喜多 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Kenichi Enomoto / Teiichi Futamura …
other title: エノケンの弥次喜多
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
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Kagebôshi: The Shadow Avenger (1959)
影法師捕物帖 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Kanjūrō Arashi / Ryūzaburō Nakamura …
other title: 影法師捕物帖
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun. But the courageous vagabond called “Kageboshi” (Shadow Avenger), will fight for the common folk, robbing the rich so the people will have rice. Tanuma’s henchmen will hire an evil swordsman to pose as Kageboshi, starting a wave of murder, kidnapping and robbery, searching for two antique sword-guards that will reveal the hiding place of a fortune in buried gold. But who will claim the gold? The poor of Edo, or the conniving Tanuma? Only Kageboshi’s flashing sword, tearing through Tanuma’s bloodthirsty minions, can forestall his wicked schemes.
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Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties (1956)
人形佐七捕物帖　妖艶六死美人 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Keiko Hibino …
other title: 人形佐七捕物帖　妖艶六死美人
Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The film opens with the sextet humiliating a respected painter's portraits of them, driving the man to a sus­picious suicide. Later, while celebrating his son's impending marriage into a wealthy family, Ibaragiya releases six pigeons from a pleasure boat, each with a rolled up drawing of one of the beauties tied to their legs. He offers a cash reward to whomever recovers the pictures, but they instead become death notices of which of the six are next to die.
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Rivals (1939)
エノケンの頑張り戦術 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Kenichi Enomoto / Mitsuko Hirokawa …
other title: エノケンの頑張り戦術
Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.
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The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku (1961)
八百万石に挑む男 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Utaemon Ichikawa / So Yamamura …
other title: 八百万石に挑む男
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy. As the orphan boy grew up, his loving heart became bitter and he saw the opportunity to take advantage of this birthright with the help of a man who wanted to use this orphan's desire to be loved, for seizing power in the shogunate by using the imposter. Many obstacles to hurdle along the way of deception, however, will they succeed or will he be exposed?
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Kaachan (1961)
「粘土のお面」より かあちゃん WikiData IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Yūnosuke Itō / Yūko Mochizuki …
other title: 「粘土のお面」より かあちゃん
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
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Chutaro of Banba (1955)
番場の忠太郎 IMDb TMDB
Nobuo Nakagawa actor: Tomisaburō Wakayama / Yōko Katsuragi …
other title: 番場の忠太郎
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama. This heartfelt story concerns a wandering gambler from Banba by the name of Chutaro. Set during the Tenpo Period, Chutaro runs afoul of Boss Sukegoro of Iioka. Pursued by vengeance seeking swordsmen, Chutaro displays his phenomenal martial art skills. Abandoned as a child, he seeks to find his long lost mother, while at the same time fighting off numerous attacks by Iioka’s men.