Ganjirô Nakamura Movies

Floating Weeds

80/100

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

The End of Summer

80/100

The family of an older man who runs a small sake brewery become concerned with his finances and his health after they discover him visiting an old mistress from his youth.

The Pornographers

75/100

While avoiding the mob and local authorities, a world-weary pornographer finds being a family man the most difficult as he wrestles with his own desires and afflictions.

Odd Obsession

71/100

A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.

Tempel zur Goldenen Halle

72/100

Goichi Mizoguchi, an aspiring Buddhist monk who became involved in the temple that was owned by his father, through a series of flashbacks, framed as a police interrogation, Mizoguchi ... See full summary »

Bamboo Doll of Echizen

75/100

Haunting melodrama focuses on a young bamboo worker who takes his father's prostitute as his wife.

Love Under the Crucifix

69/100

Fencing Master

70/100

The remake of a Akira Kurosawa script is based on the story of the actual figure Ichikawa Danpei who was a tateshi, or fencing instructor and choreographer, in Japan in the Taisho era at ... See full summary »

Gan no tera

76/100

Ghost Story: Depth of Kasane

32/100

Ghost Story: Crying in the Night Lantern

48/100

Koto no tsume

46/100

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