Sadao Nakajima — Playwright (33)
The Seburi Story (1985) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
瀬降り物語
other title: 瀬降り物語 / Seburi monogatari
The culturally isolated, nomadic Seburi people of western Japan are the subject of this tragedy about a few of the community's members who especially experience difficulties as modern Japan encroaches on their world. The setting is World War II, and conflicts have already arisen when the military police come to take Seburi men away into the army. Still following their own customs that can be harsh at times, and are particularly cruel to women (women must give birth alone and unaided, a woman's adultery is punished by burying her up to her neck in the earth and then leaving her for days), the Seburi are mainly treated with fear and animosity by the non-Seburi townspeople of the region. Along with the hardships arising from cultural clashes, nature's own vagaries present other challenges to the Seburi -- who still lived in tents until the 1950s. Winter avalanches and snowstorms cause as much havoc as the tensions engendered by the slow encroachment of the modern world.
Postwar Secrets (1970) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
戦後秘話 宝石略奪
other title: 戦後秘話 宝石略奪
Everybody's chasing a diamond in Sadao Nakajima's crime/action/drama. It was a based on a novel by Tsusai Sugawara, who was a Japanese writer and political figure campaigning against drugs, prostitution and sexually transmitted diseases.
Tokyo-Seoul-Bangkok Drug Triangle (1973) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
東京-ソウル-バンコック 実録麻薬地帯
director: Sadao Nakajima actor: Sonny Chiba / Yoko Horikoshi
other title: 東京-ソウル-バンコック 実録麻薬地帯 / Tokyo Seoul Bangkok Drug Triangle
A truck driver arrives in Seoul to receive his dead sister's ashes. While there, he discovers the death may not have been an accident after all, and has something to do with international drug smuggling.
The Scoundler vs. The Viper Brothers (1974) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
極道VSまむし
other title: 極道VSまむし
A crossover between Wakayama's Gokudo and Sugawara Mamushi series. Gokudo runs a restaurant and makes Takuzo Kawatani his kitchen bitch. He tries to do the same for the Mamushi bros. but the boys don't play along, which pisses Gokudo off. Things get worse when he starts helping a young teacher and Bunta has a crush on a pretty girl... and unbeknownst to them it's the same woman! Yes, the film has not one but two romantic subplots! Of course it all ends in bloodshed.
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.
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.
A Savage Beast Goes Mad (1976) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
狂った野獣
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.
Three Yakuza (1965) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
股旅 三人やくざ
other title: 股旅 三人やくざ
A tale of three Yakuza gamblers who traveled Japan during the samurai era living by their wits and sword skills. Told in 3 separate vignettes, each part tells the story of a different drifter’s life. Part 1: A man is on the run after killing two Hasshu Officials to avenge his Boss. He must make a life or death decision as he is asked to protect a gang from attack. Part 2: A pair of gamblers chased out of a crooked game must fight not only their pursuers, but the ghosts of their pasts as well. Part 3: A wanderer who wants to live according to the Yakuza Code, but is not sure that he can do so when asked to save a town from an evil official.