Nobuo Nakamura

Via the New York Times: "The solemn, intent faces of the Japanese schoolboys playing video games in Jun Ichikawa's "No Life King" bespeak a new type of modern horror. Addicted to their favorite new game (from which the film takes its title), these children have become seriously estranged from the real world. The film's constant emphasis is on the ways in which this has been allowed to happen, and on how emblematic it is of larger attitudes in a technological society. When a young boy...

Suzume moved in Tokyo where she will live in aunt's house, basically a geisha house. She have no interest in any social activity, nor any friendship with classmates. She's not into geisha life style too. When school is up to celebrate it's 100 year anniversary class have to prepare something for culture fest and, after chain of misfortune events, she decides to made it on stage with old dance, somewhat of her mothers legacy.

A truck driver stops at a small family-run noodle shop and decides to help its fledgling business. The story is intertwined with various vignettes about the relationship of love and food.

Several young women are killed in an isolated village, leading to an intriguing search for their killer.

Junkichi is the son of a rich landlord, while Koyuki is the daughter of a poor lumber worker. The mismatched pair soon finds love, and against his father's wishes, Junkichi decides to run away with Koyuki to start a new.

A woman attempts to look after her badly dementia struck father in law after the death of his wife (me)

Racked by earthquakes and volcanos, Japan is slowly sinking into the sea. A race against time and tide begins as Americans and the Japanese work together to salvage some fraction of the disappearing Japan.

A top police-guard, charged with protecting a visiting politician and ruthless dictator, contends with an assassin set to kill the man. (letterboxd.com)

When her rich husband dies, a woman begins a complicated affair with her father in law.

An experimental lab animal called a gargantua escapes from his captors and is suspected to be the creature that is killing people all over the countryside. But when the gargantua from the lab appears at the same time as the evil gargantua, the two begin to battle across Japan. (imdb)

During WWII, a human heart taken from a certain lab in Europe (Dr. Frankenstein's) is kept in a Japanese lab, when it gets exposed to the radiation of the bombing of Hiroshima. The heart grows in size, mutates and sprouts appendages, and eventually grows into a complete body and escapes. Later, a feral boy with a certain physical deformity (a large head with a flat top) is captured by scientists who refer to the boy as Frankenstein... (imdb)

Several satellites have been destroyed without explanation. A few days later, a group of diamond thieves are thwarted when the gems they are after suddenly disappear. Strangely enough, the two incidents are connected when scientists discover that a giant jellyfish like creature, which was mutated due to a high amount of radiation hovering over Japan, is drawing up all carbon based matter, including coal and diamonds... (imdb)

A wealthy shoe executive prepares a leveraged buyout to secure control of his company when a extortionist targets his family. However, the kidnapper mistakenly abducts the son of his chauffeur instead. Forced to choose between financial ruin and saving the child of his employee, the executive pays the ransom, triggering an intense police manhunt across the city to track down the perpetrator.

Shuhei Hirayama is a widower with a 24-year old daughter. He gradually comes to realize that she should not be obliged to look after him for the rest of his life, and so he arranges a marriage for her. (imdb)

Kiyo, a devoted mistress who runs a modern Tokyo bar, faces a devastating crisis when her longtime lover's wife demands full custody of their young children. Forced to confront her precarious position in a traditional society, she must decide whether to fight for her legal rights and motherly love or sacrifice her personal happiness to protect her children's future.

A grieving young man infiltrates a corrupt corporate empire by marrying the vice president's daughter, meticulously planning to expose the executives responsible for his father's forced suicide. As he uses insider access to orchestrate a complex web of psychological revenge, he faces moral dilemmas and mounting danger from the powerful men who will stop at nothing to conceal their crimes.

A widowed mother gently resists the persistent efforts of her late husband's friends to find her a new spouse, all while focusing on her beautiful daughter's marriage prospects. A delicate, poignant exploration of filial duty, societal expectations, and the quiet sacrifices made for family.

Afraid of the ultimate consequences, a married man, who is having an affair with an employee, inadvertently becomes the only person who can free an accused murderer.

In 1936 Japan, a married man begins a relationship with a prostitute who is working to support her ailing mother.

Adapted from Naoya Shiga's novel about the emotional turmoil of a man who suspects that his wife is committing adultery with his father.

First of a trilogy of films. During the Second World War, a Japanese conscientious objector named Kaji works as a supervisor in a Manchurian prison camp. He hopes to avoid duty as a soldier, but he also hopes to be helpful to the welfare of his prisoners. An escape attempt by Chinese prisoners results in Kaji's arrest for collusion. He faces the possibility of transferral to combat -- or worse

In Ryokichi Urshiyama (Isao Kimura), a struggling writer who, over the course of the film, sinks into a vicious cycle of despair and drunkenness, Naruse creates a vividly unsympathetic on-screen surrogate. (Slant)

Japanese villagers worship a monster and his son who live in an island cave. Some circus people hear about them, go to the island to capture the monster and wind up shooting its son. Then the trouble starts. (imdb)

A business man is often approached by friends for advice and help regarding marriage as well as family and romantic relationships. He is always very calmly and objectively able to give great insight and assistance to these particular situations. However, when it comes time for him to be objective regarding his oldest daughter, he finds it very difficult... (imdb)

A poor rickshaw driver finds himself taking care of a young woman and her son after the woman's husband dies suddenly. (imdb)

In 1905, Japan was seriously threatened in the Russo-Japanese War. Japan determined a decisive attack on Russia to end the war. A reconnaissance troop was organized to penetrate into the supreme headquarter of Russia in Tieling Mountain of China to find out the enemy's situation... (DVD Cover)

Two sisters live with their father. The younger sister is embroiled in an affair and becomes pregnant. The elder sister has run away from her husband and returned with her child to her parent's home. Both sisters are astonished when their mother, long thought dead, turns up alive. The sisters are even more stunned when they learn what their mother's life has been. (imdb)

In postwar Tokyo, a middle-aged widow takes a job as a maid in a traditional geisha house to support her daughter. Through her daily routines, she observes the quiet decline of the establishment as its aging owner and residents struggle against rising debts, internal rivalries, and shifting modern values threatening their traditional way of life.

A rebellious delinquent student puts sleeping powder in a girl's beer and rapes her. She falls in love with him, but he rejects her. Her irate family and other outraged students then punish the boy themselves. (Audie Bock)

A yeti terrorizes people on top of Mount Fuji. (imdb)

Three short tales from stories by Ichiyo Higuchi. In one, a young woman is degraded by her family after an arranged marriage. Another deals with the troubles heaped upon a young servant by her family and the wealthy people who employ her. Yet another tells of a prostitute and her hopes of finding a new, respectable life. (imdb)

An elderly couple travels from their rural village to post-war Tokyo to visit their grown children. Upon arrival, they find that their busy offspring have little time or patience for them, self-absorbingly consumed by their own modern lives. Only their widowed daughter-in-law treats them with genuine warmth and kindness, highlighting a painful generational rift.

Director Minoru Shibuya adapted Masuji Ibushi's masterpiece to film. The film depicts a doctor who has a sign that reads "Closed Today," but is busy with all kinds of people visiting the hospital.

A weary bureaucrat in post-war Tokyo learns he has terminal stomach cancer, forcing him to confront his decades of a monotonous, meaningless existence. Searching for purpose in his final months, he breaks away from his rigid routine and vows to navigate corrupt bureaucracy to transform a desolate wasteland into a public playground for local children.