Yutaka Nakayama Movies

The third "Comic Storyteller" feature. A comedy set in historic Edo.

Tashiro coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead....

Following the Second World War, the lives of various people in a poverty-stricken area of Tokyo are entertwined. Pachinko parlor girls, shoeshine...

Iwato Construction secures a major project in Hokkaido and promotes a key employee, but chaos follows—personal conflicts, missed deals, and a...

In 1943, the Aleutian island of Kiska was fortified by a small contingent of Japanese soldiers. When word arrived of an impending attack by an...

Three competing parties all race against time to track down an elusive creature known only as the Snowman.

A pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a...

A nerdy young college instructor named Shinji Kikyo returns home one day to find himself the target of a mad assassin. Surviving somewhat...

A group of hustling peddlers swindle rural towns with fake goods, facing betrayals, close calls, and constant setbacks as they chase survival and...

Taut thriller about a too-perfect criminal case against an ex-convict that makes a nosy detective suspicious.

Near the end of the war, a number of young Japanese join an army band hoping to avoid the front lines, but instead are sent to the Chinese Front.

Japan, February 1868. As the Tokugawa shogunate declines and the power of Emperor Meiji grows, Gonzo, a soldier of the Restoration Army, returns to...

The first instalment in Toho's popular Wakadaishō (Young Guy) series.

A bus driver and a female conductor on a route deep in the mountains are embroiled in a love affair that is depicted in great detail in this...

An Ishiro Honda film.

A promising post-graduate literature student is transformed into a psychotic killer following the suicide of his father and a sleazy affair by his...

Historical drama about a sleepy-eyed ronin.

A film about the life of Kiyoshi Yamashita, a Japanese painter with disabilities.

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

Four sisters are all named after flowers. While the two youngest are married, the eldest two remain single, much to the annoyance of their...