The best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s drama movies

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi

20/11/1917- 28/01/1970
Today we present the best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Hiroshi Nihon'yanagi’s movies.
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Tora! Tora! Tora!

Tora! Tora! Tora!
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 26/01/1970
  • Character: Rear Adm. Chuichi Hara (as Kan Nihonyanagi)
In the summer of 1941, the United States and Japan seem on the brink of war after constant embargos and failed diplomacy come to no end. "Tora! Tora! Tora!", named after the code words use by the lead Japanese pilot to indicate they had surprised the Americans, covers the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which plunged America into the Second World War.

Early Summer

Early Summer
8.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/10/1951
  • Character: Kenkichi Yabe
In postwar Tokyo, Noriko, still single at the advanced age of 28, lives contentedly in an extended family household that includes her parents and her brother's family. An uncle's visit prompts the family to find her a husband.

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer

The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer
8.8/10
After the Japanese defeat to the Russians, Kaji leads the last remaining men through Manchuria. Intent on returning to his dear wife and his old life, Kaji faces great odds in a variety of different harrowing circumstances as he and his fellow men sneak behind enemy lines.

Cruel Story of Youth

Cruel Story of Youth
7/10
A budding gangster enthralls a freeloading young woman, soon taking advantage of her knack for hitch-hiking to rob middle-class, middle-aged men.

Japan's Longest Day

Japan's Longest Day
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistoryWar
  • Release: 12/08/1967
  • Character: Admiral Takijiro Onishi - Vice-Chief of the Naval General Staff
Following the detonation of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Japanese military and the government clash over the demand from the Allies for unconditional surrender. Minister of the Army Anami leads the military officers who propose to fight on, even to the death of every Japanese citizen. Emperor Hirohito, however, joins with his ministers in asking the unthinkable, the peaceful surrender of Japan. When the military plots a coup to overthrow the Emperor's civilian government, Anami must face the choice between his desires and loyalty to his Emperor.

Repast

Repast
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/11/1951
  • Character: Kazuo Takenaka
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.

The Balloon

The Balloon
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/02/1956
  • Character: Masataka Tsuzuki
Haruki Murakami is a successful family man and the head of a camera company. Unbeknownst to Murakami, his arrogant son oscillates between a mistress and a new lover who sings at a nightclub. When Murakami’s disabled daughter befriends the mistress, the affair throws the family into turmoil.

Black Tight Killers

Black Tight Killers
6.7/10
Daisuke Honda, a war photographer in Vietnam, meets Yuriko Sawanouchi, a stewardess on his plane back to Japan. After drinking with her at a Tokyo bar, he becomes involved in saving Yuriko from assassination by stylish, female ninjas. When trying to rescue Yuriko from kidnappers, Daisuke discovers a group of foreigners are hunting for a WWII-era treasure hidden on an island by Yuriko's father.

The Street Without Sun

The Street Without Sun
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/06/1954
  • Character: Hagimura

Tiger of the Sea

Tiger of the Sea
A group of pirates sail the treacherous Pacific ocean in search for wealth.

Towering Waves

Towering Waves
6.6/10
Based on the novel of the same name by Seichô Matsumoto.

Escape from Hell

Escape from Hell
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/01/1963
This suspense drama set in the mid 1700's depicts the plan of the Tokugawa rulers to send a number of homeless men to a remote island Sado to perform forced labor. Living conditions on the island are terrible and the men soon become rebellious. Based on a short story by Seichō Matsumoto.

The Eagle and the Hawk

The Eagle and the Hawk
6.6/10
In a warehouse area at night, a drunk chief engineer is stabbed to death by someone who whistles. After the break of dawn, two seamen join the crew of a rusty cargo ship Kaiyo Maru. One is a troublemaker with bad attitudes, Senkichi Nomura, who pursues an enemy in order to take revenge for his father's death. The other is Keizo Sasaki, a buff, eagle-eyed man on board for a certain mission.

Shanghai Rose

Shanghai Rose
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/08/1952
  • Character: Ding Shitun (Nanjing goverment's spy leader)

Eagle of the Pacific

Eagle of the Pacific
7.6/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 20/10/1953
  • Character: Commander Furukawa
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, a brilliant tactician, is a loyal subject of the emperor, despite his grave misgivings about leading Japan's navy into war with the United States. He opposes the attack on Pearl Harbor, but, overruled, he leads his forces to the best of his ability.

The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja

The Yagyu Military Art: The One-Eyed Ninja
The famed ninja Yagyu Jubei fights to suppress a coup d’etat plotted against Tokugawa Shogunate.

Dancing Girl

Dancing Girl
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1951
  • Character: Takehara
The troubled relationship between a writer and his ballet teacher wife, who has for years loved another man, finally leads to the breakup of the family.

Young People

Young People
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 08/07/1952
MAZAKI Shintaro is a teacher at a mission school, in a relationship with the English teacher Sumi HASHIMOTO. Young, single and handsome MAZAKI is popular among the women, One day, after reading somethiing unusual in the essay of a third...v

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16

Kawakami Tetsuji, No. 16
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 03/01/1957
  • Character: Coach Fujimoto
A biopic about Japanese baseball player, Tetsuharu Kawakami.

A Turning to Hell

A Turning to Hell
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 06/10/1959
  • Character: Matsunaga
Maki, a porter at the Sakura Hotel, finds a body in Room No. 2 and picks up a piece of paper on which is written "one-third of the key", also the part of a key. From a newspaper he learns that the dead man is an official who has been detained as a suspect in a bribery case involving 150,000,000 yen and that another suspect named Matsunaga is still in custody. Maki realizes that if he can obtain the other two-thirds of the key, he will be a multi-millionaire.

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