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Katsuo Nakamura

April 23, 1938 · 88 years old

Katsuo Nakamura is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 5th Japan Academy Prize and at the 6th Hochi Film Award for Kagero-za, Buriki no kunsho, Shikake-nin Baian. He is the younger brother of the actor Kinnosuke Yorozuya. Description above from the Wikipedia article…

Known For

24 titles
1
Steamboy

Steamboy

2004 · 2h 6m · Movie

In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

6.8
2
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

2000 · 1h 45m · Movie

Japan creates an artificial black hole device to trap Godzilla forever, but a test of the device creates new foes for Godzilla, car-sized dragonflies called meganula and their queen, Megaguirus.

6.0
3
Ima, ai ni yukimasu

Ima, ai ni yukimasu

2004 · 1h 59m · Movie

A young woman returns from the dead to her guilt-ridden husband and son, but she cannot remember them.

7.8
4
Demons

Demons

1971 · 2h 14m · Movie

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

7.9
5
Dororo

Dororo

2007 · 2h 19m · Movie

A female warrior who was raised as a man joins a young samurai's quest to recover 48 of his body parts from 48 demons and to avenge her parents death.

6.4
6
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

2001 · 1h 59m · Movie

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

6.7
7
Hana

Hana

2006 · 2h 7m · Movie

A troubled young samurai seeks revenge for the death of his father.

6.6
8
The Pleasures of the Flesh

The Pleasures of the Flesh

1965 · 1h 44m · Movie

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

6.9
9
Zatoichi in Desperation

Zatoichi in Desperation

1972 · 1h 35m · Movie

After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.

6.8
10
Kagero-za

Kagero-za

1981 · 2h 19m · Movie

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

6.9
11
Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

1969 · 2h 45m · Movie

A shrewd 16th Century samurai helps a daimyo expand his realm.

7.1
12
Bread of Happiness

Bread of Happiness

2012 · 1h 54m · Movie

Young married couple Rie and Sang move from Tokyo to Lake Toya in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Sang bakes bread and Rie makes food. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, the customers leave in a happy ...

6.5
13
Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

Shinsengumi: Assassins of Honor

1969 · 2h 2m · Movie

Feudal Japan. Kamo Serizawa and Isami Kondo turn a collection of student fencers into a band of assassins known as the Shinsen Group, devoted to the Tokugawa shogunate and to an elegant code of action and behavior. Kondo leads the...

6.9
14
Sad Vacation

Sad Vacation

2007 · 2h 16m · Movie

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigran...

6.8
15
Closed Note

Closed Note

2007 · 2h 18m · Movie

Kae Horii (Erika Sawajiri) moves into her new flat in an undisclosed area of Kyoto. While unpacking her belongings, she discovers a hidden compartment behind a inconspicuous mirror. In that compartment, Kae finds a notebook, that ...

7.5
16
Bakumatsu

Bakumatsu

1970 · 2h 0m · Movie

The story of Ryoma Sakamoto, considered to be the architect behind the downfall of the Tokugawa shogunate. He was considered an outlaw by his own clan, hunted by his government, and was despised by supporters of the Shogun as well...

6.3
17
Sunô purinsu: Kinjirareta koi no merodi

Sunô purinsu: Kinjirareta koi no merodi

2009 · 1h 55m · Movie

A young boy lives in poverty with his grandfather while tending his dream of becoming a painter.

6.8
18
Taiyô to bara

Taiyô to bara

1956 · 1h 25m · Movie

A young man ignores his mother's pleas and becomes drawn to a life of crime.

6.6
19
Love Letter

Love Letter

1981 · 1h 23m · Movie

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.

5.8
20
Ibo kyoudai

Ibo kyoudai

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

7.7
21
Fuunji Oda Nobunaga

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga

1959 · 1h 35m · Movie

A lively samurai film dramatizing a pivotal turning point in the life and career of Nobunaga Oda, who figured prominently in efforts to unify the warring states of Japan under a central ruler in the late 16th century.

6.8
24
Shiroi fune

Shiroi fune

2002 · 1h 48m · Movie

Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and...