The best Shin'yō Nara’s movies
We present our ranking of the best Shin'yō Nara’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Shin'yō Nara.
There Was a Father
7.6/10
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
No Blood Relation
6.9/10
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
Aiyoku no sabaki
Motoko Fujikawa works in the Seisen Church as an assistant to pastor Maki Inokichi. Motoko falls in love with Inokichi's virtuous character and devotes herself to the rehabilitation of a delinquent girl, gradually finding her job at the institution more worthwhile than the marriage recommended by her parents. Meanwhile, inside Inokichi's heart a flame of unknowing love for the single-minded Motoko begins to burn...
Haru no Wakakusa
The Ball at the Anjo House
7.4/10
After Japan's loss in the war, the wealthy, cultured, liberal Anjo family have to give up their mansion and their way of life. They hold one last ball at the house before leaving. The seemingly cold, cynical son secretly grieves for his defeated father and the values that the war destroyed, while the daughter tries to prevent father from taking his life and to find her own place in the new Japan.
Woman of Tokyo
7/10
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Young Miss Executive
A young woman becomes president of a business.
Victory of Women
6.6/10
A lawyer fights doggedly for a more just legal system to rid Japan of its draconian penal system.
Introspection Tower
6.8/10
Introspection Tower is another film in which Shimizu explores education and how it affects the students and the teachers. The film is set at a reformatory for delinquent children at a remote location somewhere in the Japanese countryside.
The Normanton Incident - Masked Dance
Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident
A Mother Should Be Loved
6.5/10
The film tells of the strained relationship between a mother and her two sons after the death of the family patriarch.
Vermilion and Green
5.6/10
A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.
Warm Current
6.5/10
Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel.
My Elder Brother
The poor novelist Yamamoto is writing his novel, determined and with a headband around his head. With him, the novelist who is always in trouble paying his bills, is the girl Saya who becomes the model for his novel. Saya however is in love with a young driver. When he is forced to move into a spa town as the result of the jealousy of another man Saya is terribly sad. But with the help of Yamamoto the driver's rival can be revealed and Saya can finally be with her beloved.
New Woman Question and Answer
Jie (Michiko Kuwano) attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha (Hiroko Kawasaki) and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko (Kuniko Miyake), one of the seven best friends from the same women's college, is getting married. The man she's marrying is her sister's lover.
Street of Violence (The Pen Never Lies)
7.3/10
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
The Rose on His Arm
6.6/10
Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.
Shunrai
Japanese movie
Until the Day We Meet Again
5.9/10
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.
The Spy Has Not Died Yet
