Kō Nishimura Movies

A magician who targets the Yucun family, who obtain huge wealth through gemstones. Even the wise Kogoro was fooled by his meticulous criminal plan

An action drama similar to Wyler's "The Desperate Hours", adapted by Seiji Hoshikawa of "Tasogare no Tokyo Tower" based on Shinji Fujiwara's original...

After an old man is attacked by a bear in the snowy mountains of northern Japan, he vows to hunt down the marauder.

After returning from the Burmese front in WWII, a man finds trouble brewing back home.

Former boxer Daishiro lost his wife, and his only son, Kaoru, went missing, it was a heavy blow for Daishiro. One day, Daishiro got a call from his...

A lone wolf tries to eliminate a drug-smuggling operation.

This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform...

A young prosecutor named Takao falls in love with Yoriko, only to discover that her husband is the target of his investigation into a major...

A family is slowly falling apart: the father is absent from the start, the mother a kept woman thanks to her children, the son is being cheated on by...

Story of a resourceful hobo (Kobayashi), a con woman (Takamine) who pretends to be a victim of the Nagasaki A-bomb, and two orphaned children who...

Two men succeed in opening a joint restaurant after hilarious troubles.

1961 Toei comedy

Suspense drama about a married salaryman whose affair with one of his co-workers is compromised when, returning from a clandestine meeting with his...

Farmer Abare Goemon is confronted by brigand-like samurai. He raises an army of farmers to fight them and does so brilliantly. When Lord Asakura sees...

Based on the manga by Sadao Jouji which has been running in the magazine Shukan Gendai since 1969.

Contemporary comedy.

Documentary made by Toho for the Masterworks reissue of all of its Kurosawa films. This one focuses on "The Bad Sleep Well" (1960).

1961 Japanese movie