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Katsuo Nakamura

April 23, 1938 · 88 years old

Katsuo Nakamura is a Japanese actor. He won the award for best supporting actor at the 5th Japan Academy Prize and at the 6th Hochi Film Award for Kagero-za, Buriki no kunsho, Shikake-nin Baian. He is the younger brother of the actor Kinnosuke Yorozuya. Description above from the Wikipedia article…

Known For

19 titles
1
Steamboy

Steamboy

2004 · 2h 6m · Movie

In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revolutionary advance in steam power.

6.8
2
Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

Godzilla vs. Megaguirus

2000 · 1h 45m · Movie

Japan creates an artificial black hole device to trap Godzilla forever, but a test of the device creates new foes for Godzilla, car-sized dragonflies called meganula and their queen, Megaguirus.

6.0
3
Ima, ai ni yukimasu

Ima, ai ni yukimasu

2004 · 1h 59m · Movie

A young woman returns from the dead to her guilt-ridden husband and son, but she cannot remember them.

7.8
4
Demons

Demons

1971 · 2h 14m · Movie

After being robbed by a geisha, a ronin warrior carves a bloody path to seek revenge.

7.9
5
Dororo

Dororo

2007 · 2h 19m · Movie

A female warrior who was raised as a man joins a young samurai's quest to recover 48 of his body parts from 48 demons and to avenge her parents death.

6.4
6
Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

Warm Water Under a Red Bridge

2001 · 1h 59m · Movie

A down-and-out businessman travels to a seaside town, where he meets a woman with unusual sexual powers.

6.7
7
Hana

Hana

2006 · 2h 7m · Movie

A troubled young samurai seeks revenge for the death of his father.

6.6
8
The Pleasures of the Flesh

The Pleasures of the Flesh

1965 · 1h 44m · Movie

After Atsushi commits murder, he is blackmailed into keeping a suitcase full of embezzled money. What follows is a descent into lustful, reckless actions and regret.

6.9
9
Zatoichi in Desperation

Zatoichi in Desperation

1972 · 1h 35m · Movie

After accidentally causing an old lady's death, Zatoichi seeks out her daughter to atone for the tragedy, consequently getting into all sorts of trouble.

6.8
10
Kagero-za

Kagero-za

1981 · 2h 19m · Movie

A 1920s playwright meets a beautiful woman who may be the ghost of his patron's deceased wife.

6.9
11
Samurai Banners

Samurai Banners

1969 · 2h 45m · Movie

A shrewd 16th Century samurai helps a daimyo expand his realm.

7.1
12
Bread of Happiness

Bread of Happiness

2012 · 1h 54m · Movie

Young married couple Rie and Sang move from Tokyo to Lake Toya in Hokkaido Prefecture to start a bakery restaurant named Mani. Sang bakes bread and Rie makes food. Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter, the customers leave in a happy ...

6.5
13
Sad Vacation

Sad Vacation

2007 · 2h 16m · Movie

Kenji, abandoned by his mother, scrapes out a meager existence doing odd jobs including driving bar hostesses and their customers home. Besides this he takes care of the sister of an old friend in jail and a young illegal immigran...

6.8
14
Love Letter

Love Letter

1981 · 1h 23m · Movie

Yuko is in love with an old poet who happens to be also a married man. She waits patiently for him and only him, yet she is constantly being lust by others.

5.8
15
Ibo kyoudai

Ibo kyoudai

1957 · 1h 50m · Movie

In a military family, an illegitimate son is brutalized by his brothers. A patriarchal, feudalistic household where dissent is forbidden is used to reveal the whole imperialist system that afflicted Japan between 1921 and 1946.

7.7
16
Fuunji Oda Nobunaga

Fuunji Oda Nobunaga

1959 · 1h 35m · Movie

A lively samurai film dramatizing a pivotal turning point in the life and career of Nobunaga Oda, who figured prominently in efforts to unify the warring states of Japan under a central ruler in the late 16th century.

6.8
18
Shiroi fune

Shiroi fune

2002 · 1h 48m · Movie

Shizuka (Mami Nakamura) is a young school teacher. She moves to a small village by the sea, near her own home country. The elementary school she is assigned has only 20 students. But her last assignment was not very successful and...