Nobuo Kawakami Movies

Heartwarming story of an ambitious girl who becomes a concert pianist with the help of her musician father.

12th in the Joe of Aces series.

1961 Japanese movie

Story of an ex-con trying to go straight, but of course the old ways die hard.

A noir action whodunit with Kobayashi his usual jaunty self as the smart aleck private eye whose missing person search soon becomes a murder case....

A Tokyo student transfers to a rural school and finds it difficult to adjust himself to its customs and traditions. One of the customs is the wearing...

Joji Dan tries to find the heir of a prosperous Japanese millionaire who died in Mexico. However, the bandits want to take over the inheritance and...

Kyoichi Kageyama, a TV station reporter, is always getting into trouble. But when he gets his hands on a TV that shows the “news of the next...

1965 Nikkatsu youth film.

Film by Buichi Saitô

A man meets the spirit of a murdered gangster after he spills alcohol over his grave.

Japanese Western set at a mountain ranch in Kyushu.

Seven years ago, Ishimatsu Toshio, a talented radio producer at Zen Nihon Hōsō, witnessed a crazed drug addict murder his wife and then...

Seventh in the nine-film series, "The Wandering Guitarist".

Japanese "kayo" film centered around the song "Tokyo gozen sanji" by Frank Nagai.

The wandering gambler (Akira Kobayashi) once again picks up the dice he forswore in order to take revenge of the gangsters who exploit good citizens....