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Nobuo Nakagawa (中川 信夫, Nakagawa Nobuo, April 18, 1905 – June 17, 1984) was a Japanese film director, most famous for the stylized, folk tale-influenced horror films he made in the 1950s and 1960s.
Born in Kyoto, Nakagawa was early on influenced by proletarian literature and wrote amateur film reviews for the Kinema Junpō film magazine. He joined Makino Film Productions in 1929 as an assistant director and worked under Masahiro Makino. When that studio went bankrupt in 1932, he switched to Utaemon Ichikawa's production company and made his debut as a director in 1934 with Yumiya Hachiman Ken. He later moved to Toho, where he made comedies starring Enoken and even documentaries during the war. It was at Shintoho after the war that he became known for his cinematic adaptations of Japanese Kaidan, especially his masterful version of Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan in 1959.
To Western audiences, his most famous film is Jigoku (1960), which he also co-wrote. The film was released on DVD by the Criterion Collection in 2006.
He also filmed many Kaidan for television. His last film was 1982's Kaidan: Ikiteiru Koheiji.
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13 July 1958
The descendant of the servant of a cruel and vicious samurai returns to the town where she was born, only to find that a cat who is possessed by the spirits of those murdered by the samurai is trying to kill her.
01 August 1971
This is the second volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii.
04 July 1971
This is the first volume of a ghost story TV series presented by Nobuo Nakagawa, Saburo Endo and Teruo Ishii.
13 September 1961
A story of an orphan boy who wanted the love of parents so badly, another orphan sincerely pitied him to the point he gives his secret birthright as an illegitimate son to a Shogun as a "gift of hope" to the sad boy.
29 March 1955
Based on the play ”Mabuta no haha” by famed author Shin Hasegawa, this is the first major starring role for Tomisaburo Wakayama.
15 May 1940
Enoken trains to be a great sumo wrestler.
16 July 1940
Enoken no wanwan taishô AKA Wanwan Taisho AKA Bowwow General directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
13 March 1960
Arrested for the murder of her wealthy businessman father, convicted on false evidence and sentenced to death, Kyoko is determined to prove her innocence.
11 December 1956
Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya.
03 January 1952
Period film about the legendary detective Umon
25 July 1971
Fourth film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
12 July 1968
An old man dies of heartbreak when a cruel landlord is about to repossess his land. The old man haunts the landlord from the grave.
08 November 1958
Japanese film, originally released in two parts.
19 September 1956
Ryutaro is a spy employed by the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, who is the target of assassination attempts that aim to hand power over to his younger brother Tadanaga.
31 August 1955
1955 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
27 February 1957
After defeat in the Battle of Skigahara, Yukimura Sanada and his Ten Braves scatter across the country to spy in order to be prepared for the final battle at Osaka Castle, trying to bring an end to the fighting by revealing the secret will of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, if they can get their hands on it!
25 February 1958
In 1870's Tokyo, Den steals to support the daughter of her first marriage and her consumptive second husband.
03 July 1938
Japanese movie
07 March 1959
Tamio takes Itsuko to an art gallery and the two find one painting is a nude portrait of Itsuko's mother, who disappeared twenty years ago when she was just a baby.
20 December 1949
Japanese noir.
05 March 1961
1716, Yoshimune becomes the 8th Shogun as high Shogunate officials are attacked. While the government tries to keep these incidents under wraps, they must take any means possible to get to the bottom of this mystery and find out who is behind them.
09 August 1958
Desiring another officer’s new wife, a military police lieutenant fabricates evidence of treason that consigns the innocent man to torture and a firing squad.
15 March 1961
Home drama about tin craftsmen and their families in downtown Tokyo. Though poor, they do not lose their cheerfulness or give in to oppression.
10 July 1957
A blind masseur visits a samurai to request the return of a loan. The samurai kills him in anger, then has his servant dump the body in the Kasane swamp.
11 April 1956
The story of a professional nude model stalked by a bizarre, unknown man wearing a hideous mask.
23 January 1962
Bored Hatamoto movie #29
05 October 1951
A young botanical researcher moves to the highlands to collect plants for research, and falls in love with a nurse there.
19 September 1939
Two hyper-competitive salarymen let their workplace rivalry spill over into their private lives, as both men try to one-up each other on a luxurious beach vacation neither's family can afford.
02 October 1952
Office worker comedy by Nobuo Nakagawa
29 December 1939
Enoken's anachronistic take on the beloved (and already very funny) Edo-period novel "Shank's Mare," aka Tōkaidōchū Hizakurige, in which Yaji and Kita, two plebeian nobodies, have all sorts of strange and colorful encounters on the long road from Edo to Kyoto.
30 July 1960
A group of sinners involved in interconnected tales of murder, revenge, deceit and adultery all meet at the Gates of Hell.
01 September 1962
This is a story of a young heir to a powerful house, sent away to be raised by his nanny, so the young lord Genrokuro grew up bitter about his parents, hating his legacy and embracing everyone else from simple background.
11 July 1959
This horror tale adapts the Japanese legend which tells of a man who faces the consequences of betraying his wife in order to acquire wealth and power.
12 August 1962
An injured Edo official is rescued by a vassal whose appearance is exactly like himself, and swears to sweep out the criminals from the town on his behalf.
22 June 1963
Japanese "mondo" film.
27 June 1979
In the final days of the Edo shogunate, a government commander enters Edo Castle to inspect the Ōoku.
01 October 1969
Okatsu the Fugitive is the third film in the "Ohyaku/Okatsu" series. Okatsu; a "tomboy" who is good with a sword.
04 July 1971
First film of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series.
10 August 1939
A typically modern take on the well-known Naniwabushi character (and real life 19th-century gangster) Mori no Ishimatsu, whose proverbial stupidity Enoken takes to farcical extremes.
20 July 1956
Nobuo Nakagawa's Shintoho period drama adapted by Kikuo Kitagawa from the original story by Kazutora Fujishima, which borrowed the structure of Dumas's "The Three Musketeers".
29 April 1959
For the poor, Edo is Hell on Earth, starving under the rule of Tanuma Okitsugi, corrupt councilor to the shogun.
05 February 1953
Period film about a feudal era judge living in Edo
20 December 1939
Another adaptation of Tange Sazen.
15 August 1971
This special chapter of "Mysterious Thirteen Nights" series was never turned into a videogram, but was broadcast on television.
15 October 1957
Kyôko Yashiro's film debut for Shintoho.
10 November 1952
Jidai-geki starring Kanjuro Arashi
04 September 1982
The actor Koheiji is terribly in love with the wife of his best friend, the playwright Takuro; to get her, he would even kill Takuro.
29 March 1969
Second movie in the Sakura Code series.
29 July 1953
1953 jidaigeki directed by Nobuo Nakagawa of Jigoku and Ghost of Yotsuya fame.
03 September 1978
A photographer is lost in a storm and washes up on an isolated island, where he meets a vampire woman and falls in love with her.
10 April 1969
This film focuses on Okatsu; the adopted daughter of a master swordsman. She is a master with a sword herself and her talents far overshadow that of her brother, and real child of the man who adopted her.
11 February 1951
Jidai-geki by Nobuo Nakagawa. Most likely a star vehicle for Kanjuro Arashi
18 June 1941
1941 Toho adaptation of Natsume's novel.
08 May 1952
A movie directed by Nobuo Nakagawa
27 October 1962
A story about a spear master’s spiritual and martial discipline.
17 May 1956
Hibari Misora as a Kitsune or Fox Spirit
21 June 1949
Japanese mystery thriller.
27 September 1949
Tobisuke, puppeteer in Kyôtô, saves O-fuku's life. Wounded in the head, it can now count to three. O-fuku invited him to meet her mother so she can heals him with a golden fruit.
17 April 1957
Casebook of Dandy Sashichi
