Sadao Nakajima — Director (46)
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Love's Twisting Path (2019) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
多十郎殉愛記
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Kengo Kora / Mikako Tabe …
other title: 多十郎殉愛記
Set in Kyoto in the last days of the Edo Period, the bloody conflict continues between local feudal domains, which aim to overthrow the Tokugawa Shogunate, and the Shogun's police and city patrol. Tajuro Kiyokawa, once the master of the sword but now a depraved samurai who left his domain putting aside his past ambition, barely makes ends meet. Toyo, a woman who runs a tavern next door, feels affection for Tajuro who guards her place against nasty customers, but he never realizes Toyo's feelings.
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Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro (1972) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
木枯し紋次郎
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Bunta Sugawara / Gorō Ibuki …
other title: 木枯し紋次郎 / Kogarashi Monjirō
Kogarashi Monjiro is a lone samurai who agrees to take responsibility for a murder that his friend committed so that he can stay with his dying mother, with the expectation that his friend will confess and get him pardoned once she dies. Monjiro is sentenced to an island for prisoners. When he discovers that his friend's mother has died over a year ago, Monjiro seeks to escape with a group of prisoners in order to get his revenge.
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A Savage Beast Goes Mad (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
狂った野獣
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Tsunehiko Watase / Maki Tachibana …
other title: 狂った野獣
Test driver Hayami loses control of his car and rolls over. His company then learns that he has kept secret that he is visually impaired, and he is fired. Without the prospect of returning to his old job he makes a plan to rob several jewelry stores. A few days later, Hayami escapes with stolen goods worth 80 million yen in a violin case on a Kyoto city bus. A wild chase ensues.
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The Viper Brothers: 18 Extortion Threats (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
まむしの兄弟　傷害恐喝十八犯
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tsunehiko Watase …
other title: まむしの兄弟　傷害恐喝十八犯
Part 4 in a long running (8+1 films) action/comedy/melodrama series about a pair of short tempered, amoral, but not evil chinpira (Bunta Sugawara and Tamio Kawachi) thinking too big of themselves. Sugawara tries to overcome a traumatic experience of getting in bed blindfolded with a girl who turned out to be an old granny. Later he and Kawaji try to settle down in a neighbourhood harassed by businessman yakuza Bin Amatsu.
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The Viper Brothers (1971) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
懲役太郎　まむしの兄弟
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Bunta Sugawara / Tamio Kawachi …
other title: 懲役太郎　まむしの兄弟 / Chōeki Tarō: Mamushi no Kyōdai
After spending several years in prison, yakuza punk Masa (Bunta Sugawara) and his underling, Katsuji (Tamio Kawachi) are back out in the mean streets of Kobe to make a name for themselves amongst the local yakuza organization.
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Jeans Blues: No Future (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Meiko Kaji / Tsunehiko Watase …
other title: ジーンズブルース　明日なき無頼派
Hijiriko makes off from the bar she works at with money and a car that isn't hers. Meanwhile, Jiro Katagiri is up to no good with his gangster friends and ends up making off with all their ill-gotten gains, much to their disapproval. The two misfits end up meeting after a car crash and soon end up on the road together in (another) stolen car. It's not long before the police take an interest in the crimes, and of course the gangsters are hot on Jiri's heels; meaning the two must scarper across Japan by any means necessary.
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Yakuza Ladies: Decision (1998) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
極道の妻たち　決着
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Shima Iwashita / Rino Katase …
other title: 極道の妻たち　決着
Kasuga’s husband gets arrested for a murder of his beloved protégé. She and her family investigate and find out he was trapped by greedy Nagoshi, the boss of their rival yakuza family. She has to make a decision to revenge Nagoshi.