Masahiko Nishimura Movies

Wie der Wind sich hebt

78/100

A look at the life of Jiro Horikoshi, the man who designed Japanese fighter planes during World War II.

Welcome Back, Mr. McDonald

79/100

A radio play is going to go on air at a Tokyo radio station. It is a weepy melodrama written by housewife Miyako...

Tokyo Family

75/100

In this update of Yasujiro Ozu's "Tokyo Story", a retired schoolteacher and his wife visit their three working children in modern-day Tokyo.

What a Wonderful Family!

70/100

A husband (Isao Hashizume) and wife (Kazuko Yoshiyuki) have been married for 50 years. For her birthday, the husband asks the wife what she wants for her birthday present. She replies that ... See full summary »

What a Wonderful Family! II

70/100

In this sequel to the first It's A Wonderful Family, the characters who are still based on those in Tokyo Family (which itself was based on Tokyo Story), are a couple of years older with ... See full summary »

The Black House

63/100

A meek agent at the Showa Life Insurance company receives a phone call from a customer who says that she's planning to commit suicide and wants to know if her policy will pay out. Concerned... See full summary »

Samurai Hustle

62/100

During the reign of the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yunagaya Domain in the Tohoku region is a small han. But at the han, there is a gold mine. Suddenly, Masaatsu Naito of ... See full summary »

Woman in Witness Protection

70/100

Hanada Shonenshi the Movie: Spirits and the Secret Tunnel

70/100

A boy suddenly can see a ghost after an accident, that will reveal the secret of his life.

I Want to Be a Shellfish

68/100

I Want to Be a Shellfish (Watashi wa Kani ni Naritai) is a 2008 Japanese movie based on a Tetsutaro Kato novel and directed by Katsuo Fukuzawa. It is a remake of the 1959 film of the same ... See full synopsis »

Samurai Hustle Returns

54/100

Masaatsu Naito (Kuranosuke Sasaki) successfully completes Sankin-kotai (required ritual to visit the shogun). On his way home, he hears that an insurrection by peasants has taken place in ... See full summary »

Shinichi Kudo Returns! Showdown with the Black Organization

69/100

The second live-action TV movie of Detective Conan. During a TV live party, Conan and Ai accidentally ate some cake with a special kind of liquor in it and regained their former body size. ... See full summary »

Kurokawa no techou special: Shiroi yami

72/100

Ginza is a night town filled with ambition and burning desire How does a plain bank clerk embezzle an enormous amount of money and jump into the underground world? What is her ultimate goal... See full synopsis »

Ojuken

65/100

A Chair on the Plains

79/100

Ganryujima

56/100

Shio karubi

Sararîman deka 1

Kôchisho no joi

24 jikan dake no uso