Yasushi Nagata Movies

A union-busting Yokohama dockworker learns that the loyalties that rule his life are based on shaky foundations. Believing that his manager was...

After their father quarrels with local military men, Anju and Zushio are forced to flee, but they are captured and sold into slavery. When their...

A matchmaker looks to unite a young woman from a wealthy Tokyo family with the humble owner of an auto garage.

High-end cabaret hostess Masuko discovers her long-term lover is actually married. Determined to secure her future, she aggressively manipulates him...

Based on the novel of the same name by Seichō Matsumoto.

A young samurai learns that he is the illegitimate son of the Shogun. Hoping to reunite with his birth father, he travels to Edo to find Shogun...

The film consists of three short stories. Tomiko, the heroine of the first story, "The Flower Girl" (dir. Kozaburo Yoshimura), is a little girl who...

A group of five rookie insurance salespersons, driven to desperation by the impossibility of their work in Japan's failing postwar economy, form a...

After surviving the double suicide pact she made with her lover, a woman gives birth to their child.

Five longtime friends get back together, but are disappointed to find that their bonds are not as strong as they once were.

Based on the novel by proletarian writer Sunao Tokunaga. The story is about a long strike by workers at a large printing house and the strikers'...

Matsugoro is a poor rickshaw driver whose animated spirit and optimistic demeanor make him a favorite of the town. Matsu helps an injured boy,...

Alongside Tokyo's Sumida River is a ragpickers' settlement known as Ant Village. One night, a young Catholic girl, Satoko Kitahara, who has been...

Based on true events surrounding a Korean student who had entered Japan unlawfully and escaped illegal alien internment.

The story of a certain engineer from his youth until he retired from the Japanese National Railways after the war .

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with,...

When the plague threatens a small town in Manchuria, a young doctor finds himself struggling to save the lives of his townspeople.

Kondo Isami, the “Devil” commander of the Shinsengumi was one of Japan’s greatest national heroes and a peerless swordsman who...