Ryutaro Nagai Movies

The story is based on the serial novel by Tsunoda Kikuo.

A drummer falls for a pawnbroker's daughter.

Tanuma Kandayuu is a high class samurai of the house of Nabeshima. He finds a lavish board of Go (a Chinese Board game) at Kinbei's store. He...

Period film from 1934.

A semi-documentary story about the vicissitudes in the life of an elderly fisherman.

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

A man attacks the shogun, but does not succeed in his assassination attempt. He flees to the mountains and hides in a shed. There he finds an old man...

Laughter is brought about by a teacher-husband and student-wife couple.

The film tells about the life of the former vassal of the Ako clan - Fuwa Katsuemon Masatane.

Two cowardly palanquin carriers know the culprit of a murder but are too scared to report it to the police. In the mean time, an innocent man is...

The legendary ninja Kurama Tengu (Enoken) uses his superhuman powers to help free a band of street urchins from their Fagin-like master. The film's...

Near the end of the Taisho era (1912-1926), Enokichi, a popular figure in the world of boxing entangled in the Yakuza business.

Japanese horror movie from 1929.

A bus making its precarious way across a winding mountain road picks up some unwelcome passengers.

This epic depicts the battle between Uesugi Kenshin and Takeda Shingen. The focus of the story is the struggle by the unit leader in charge of the...

A sixteen-year-old who had been living on her own since her mother died, frequently gets in trouble with the police. She gets sent to an "institute"...

This 1932 adaptation is the earliest sound version of the ever-popular and much-filmed Chushingura story of the loyal 47 retainers who avenged their...