Shin'yō Nara

Acting

Shin'yō Nara

Born — Died

1896-11-30 — 1977-11-26

Place of birth

Akita Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 20 titles

Town of Violence poster
6.5

An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.

Town of Violence

1950

Akuma no kao poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Akuma no kao

1957

Over That Hill poster
NR

Mariko is an innocent girl who grew up in the highlands of Shinshu. She moves to Tokyo to live with her father who has successfully returned to Japan. Mariko is simply confused by the life in Tokyo, which is different from her own. Only her private tutor Daisuke was an advisor she could tolerate. Mariko develops slight feelings for Daisuke and finally realizes that he is her first love...

Over That Hill

1951

Young Miss Executive poster
9.0

A President of the confectionery company announced his retirement, and his sixteen year old granddaughter, Madoka was ordered to be a new head. But Madoka wants to be a stage dancer, so she won't concentrate her office job. Madoka meets Akiyama, a stage director. Akiyama introduce her to his neighbors. In among poor but open minded people, Madoka has changed. Her new ambition is her company provide nice sweets for children. She decide to focus on the office job. But she doesn't know that company executives has conspiracy against her...

Young Miss Executive

1953

Modern People poster
3.2

A section chief at the Bureau of Construction is in a shady relationship with a construction company. Then a new, young and honest subordinate is assigned to work under the section chief. Once he learns about the shady relationship, however, the new subordinate skillfully conceals the corruption and joins the corrupt, shady relationship.

Modern People

1952

The Woman’s Reflective Pool poster
NR

Tozai Electric president Minamoto (Yanagi) is about to be pursued by the public prosecutor's office and tries to bribe Manabe (Saburi), the man in charge, but fails. His daughter Naeko (Takamine) finds out and takes on the role herself. This is a love romance adapted from an original story by Seiichi Funabashi that appeared in the magazine "Romance.”

The Woman’s Reflective Pool

1951

Firefly Grass poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Firefly Grass

1954

The Rose on His Arm poster
5.8

Ignoring the protests of his working-class mother, a young man becomes wrapped up in the world of delinquents and yakuza.

The Rose on His Arm

1956

ある落日 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

ある落日

1959

Haru no Wakakusa poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haru no Wakakusa

1954

The Dawn of Judo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Dawn of Judo

1955

Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Arashi no naka no hōyō: Omokage wa Harukanari

1957

母恋草 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

母恋草

1951

Haha machi gusa poster
NR

Asako works in a hostel for troubled young women. When a beautiful young girl is brought in one day after committing theft, Asako finds out from the older widow she works with that the new girl is undoubtedly her half-sister. When the younger sister suddenly flees on account of a misunderstanding, Asako makes up her mind to find the mother who deserted them both.

Haha machi gusa

1951

The Three Musketeers Reunite poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Three Musketeers Reunite

1956

Minami kaze poster
NR

1951 Japanese movie

Minami kaze

1951

Red Fan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Red Fan

1952

Aiyoku no sabaki poster
NR

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...

Aiyoku no sabaki

1953

The Big Ambition poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Big Ambition

1955

続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻 poster
NR

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻

1956

1940s · 13 titles

The Ball at the Anjo House poster
7.0

After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.

The Ball at the Anjo House

1947

There Was a Father poster
7.0

Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.

There Was a Father

1942

Rira no hana wasureji poster
NR

In the 30th year, Nirasaki Den'emon established the Nirasaki Hokkaido Development Company with investment from Sonoi to build railway facilities. However, the endeavor faced criticism for attempting to buy Ainu land at low prices. Tokyo Nippo reporter Toshimasa Matsuzaka, who was actually Nirasaki's son, wants to expose the flawed practices of the company.

Rira no hana wasureji

1947

No artwork available
NR

1945 Japanese movie

Tengoku no hanayome

1945

Thirteen Eyes poster
NR

Second film of the Bannai Tarao series starring Chiezo Kataoka

Thirteen Eyes

1947

Nobuko poster
6.2

A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.

Nobuko

1940

Otome no iru kichi poster
NR

Japanese war movie.

Otome no iru kichi

1945

Dancing with a Mask poster
NR

Japanese propaganda film about the Normanton Incident.

Dancing with a Mask

1943

The Spy Has Not Died Yet poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Spy Has Not Died Yet

1942

Introspection Tower poster
6.7

A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.

Introspection Tower

1941

Victory of Women poster
7.1

Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.

Victory of Women

1946

Our Planes Fly South poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Our Planes Fly South

1943

Twenty-Year-Old Youth poster
7.0

The film features the first scene with kissing in a Japanese film. Kiss scenes were encouraged by the American occupiers of Japan following World War II as it encouraged westernization and contrasted with the traditional bow prevalent in that country.

Twenty-Year-Old Youth

1946

1930s · 20 titles

Woman of Tokyo poster
6.8

Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.

Woman of Tokyo

1933

A Mother Should Be Loved poster
5.8

A young man discovers that the woman who raised him is his stepmother. His stepbrother, who is unaware of the revelation, resents his mother for always punishing him more severely than his stepsibling.

A Mother Should Be Loved

1934

Spring Thunder poster
NR

Eiko is an innocent young lady born into a wealthy family with nothing to offer. She was good at singing, and lived her life playing around with her cronies, organizing music concerts and so on. However, things change when her father's business fails and she was suddenly thrown out into the world without any foundation. Eiko has no one to support her after she loses her social status, and her only tutor, Shinnosuke (Natsukawa Daijiro) was the only one who was sincere. Eiko is a stickler for using everything she can get her hands on, and she quickly moves into Shinnosuke's house.

Spring Thunder

1939

Until the Day We Meet Again poster
8.0

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.

Until the Day We Meet Again

1932

ABC Lifeline poster
6.7

Japanese silent film directed by Yasujirô Shimazu, originally released as a two-part movie on December 11, 1931.

ABC Lifeline

1931

Silver Stream poster
7.0

Michiko gets pregnant after a rape. She marries a boring business partner of her father to avoid the shame. Later she meets the rapist again who is now a union leader in opposition of her husband.

Silver Stream

1931

No Blood Relation poster
7.3

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.

No Blood Relation

1932

A Primer on Marriage poster
8.0

Bored in his marriage, a dentist flirts with a young woman on a train. However he soon finds himself embroiled in a series of misunderstandings with his wife, the young woman and her husband. Considered to be a lost film.

A Primer on Marriage

1930

The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman poster
8.0

Two people are fascinated by a sculptor's statue. The film is lost.

The Sorrow of the Beautiful Woman

1931

Eclipse poster
NR

The story is centered around the devastating experiences of two villagers, Osaki Shuichi, and his cousin, Nishimiura Kinue, when they leave their hometown for the metropolis of Tokyo. They are in love with each other, but Kinue is expected to marry the lawyer Kanda Seiji. In consequence, Shukichi leaves for Tokyo, where he becomes tutor to the son of the rich Iwaki family. The heartbroken Kinue also makes her way to the capital, where she becomes a bar hostess.

Eclipse

1934

Weeds with flowers poster
NR

Weed with Flowers

Weeds with flowers

1939

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

天龍下れば

1933

New Woman Question and Answer poster
6.0

Jie attended a women's university with the financial support of her geisha sister Oha and became a lawyer. The aim. Michiko, 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.

New Woman Question and Answer

1939

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Reijin

1930

Men vs. Women poster
7.0

Three couples connected to rival business and theatrical families navigate complicated romances, workplace disputes, and family opposition.

Men vs. Women

1936

My Elder Brother poster
6.0

Jyuta, an honest owner of a taxi company, has a younger half-brother who is involved in the yakuza world and doesn’t get along well with his mother. Jyuta tries to correct him…

My Elder Brother

1934

Vermilion and Green poster
5.3

A businessman’s daughter falls in love with one of her father’s employees.

Vermilion and Green

1937

Warm Current poster
5.2

Adaptation of Kishida Kunio's novel. Set against the backdrop of a power struggle within a hospital, depicts the love lives of the director's daughter, the administrative director, a doctor, and a nurse.

Warm Current

1939

No artwork available
8.0

It is considered to be a lost film.

Sôbô

1933

First Steps Ashore poster
7.5

The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.

First Steps Ashore

1932