The best Kō Nishimura’s horror movies

Kō Nishimura

Kō Nishimura

25/01/1923- 29/04/1997
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Kō Nishimura’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Kō Nishimura.

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees

Under the Blossoming Cherry Trees
7.3/10
A mountain man beheads his many wives to prove his love to an alluring woman he meets in an enchanted forest.

The Ghost of the Hunchback

The Ghost of the Hunchback
6.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 01/01/1965
  • Character: Baron Tominaga / The Hunchback
A hunchbacked caretaker presides over a forlorn mansion inhabited by the ghosts of his previous masters. An unbelieving trio (a doctor, his assistant and his niece) fail to heed the caretaker's warnings and are slaughtered horribly by the jealous occupants.

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis

Tokyo: The Last Megalopolis
6.1/10
The reincarnation of a 10th century Japanese general haunts 1920's Tokyo.

The Bride from Hades

The Bride from Hades
7.2/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 15/06/1968
  • Character: Banzou
On the night of the summer Obon festival, Hagiwara Shinzaburo meets a beautiful courtesan named Otsuyu. Not knowing she's a ghost, he becomes infatuated by her.

The Living Skeleton

The Living Skeleton
6.3/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 09/11/1968
  • Character: Nishizato
A ship is attacked at sea for its cargo by a group of thieves who murder a newlywed doctor and rape his wife. Three years later her twin sister is kidnapped by the same pirates, who begin to die strange deaths...

The One-Eyed Ghost

The One-Eyed Ghost
4.6/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 04/09/1965
Japanese horror film directed by Tsuneo Kobayashi.

Snake Woman's Curse

Snake Woman's Curse
6.4/10
  • Genre: Horror
  • Release: 12/07/1968
  • Character: Yasuke
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. Since the man died in debt, his wife and daughter are indentured servants and are forced to work in the landlord's factory.

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