Kô Nakahira

Another sprawling Nakahira drama detailing the love life of several members of a middle class family.Read More »

Along with The Baby Carriage and A Slope in the Sun, That Guy and I is one of a long list of youth films to be based on the novels of ISHISAKA Yojiro. A portrait of youth grappling with new forms of love and sexual ethics at the height of the ANPO struggle of 1960, the film was marketed as ISHIHARA Yujiro’s comeback picture after he injured himself in a skiing accident, and went on to break box office records in 1961.Read More »

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With no one to love, Shimako, in her thirties, feels marriage has passed her by. So, she makes a big decision to visit a matchmaking service on her way back from attending a colleague’s wedding.Read More »

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Living in Manchuria on the eve of the Second World War, Nunami and Sugaku accept an arranged marriage despite their different expectations and aspirations. Nunami misses intellectual conversations and Sugaku feels more at home in her bar. When Nunami tells her that he observed her with her lover they decide to move to Tokyo to make a new start. There Nunami meets Shimura, an office colleague with whom he enjoys the long desired conversations. Sugaku takes a decision with grave consequences. WHIRLPOOL OF FLESH is one of four experimental and existentialist black-and-white films NAKAHIRA made in 1964.Read More »

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At about the same time as lwami, president of a Tokyo company is murdered by an unknown assailant, it happens that an urgent call has been received from an airline company’s office on remote Hachijo Island for a special serum. A Cessna aircraft which has been chartered by a man named Ohashi takes off for the island with the serum piloted by Ishida. But when airborne, Ohashi, who is the murderer of lwami, holds up Ishida at gunpoint and orders him to land on a small island west of Hachijo where a ship is waiting to take him to Hong Kong…Read More »

Crime film about a man who becomes a murder suspect out of the blue.Read More »

Two brothers compete for the amorous favors of a young woman during a seaside summer of gambling, boating, and drinking, in this seminal Sun Tribe (taiyozoku) film from director Ko Nakahira. Adapted from the controversial novel by Shintaro Ishihara, and critically savaged for its lurid portrayal of the postwar sexual revolution among Japan’s young and privileged, Crazed Fruit is an anarchic outcry against tradition and the older generation.Read More »

“In the streets behind the Ginza avenue, the boss of an hairdressing salon is found dead, killed by strangulation. The inspector in charge of the investigation questions one of the residents of the district, being aware at the same time of the rumours. They suspect Yoshio, a cafe employee, who was found at the hairdresser’s place 40 minutes after the crime. The young guy has something against him: he was judged in the past for involuntary homicide.Read More »

Ryoko, a young teacher, grew up in a foster family. After the death of her foster father she returns to her origin family. Rejected by her religious mother and not being reintegrated in her surroundings, she feels abandoned by the world. One day her sister Taeko brings home her fiancé Keiji, with whom Ryoko had a deep love affair years ago. Once again they feel attracted to each other and accept they are doomed. Inspired by Luchino Visconti’s SENSO (1954), SUMMER STORM is one of four films NAKAHIRA made in 1956 about social conventions and the inevitable breakout.Read More »