Acting

Nobuko Shingu

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 15 titles

Gamera vs. Barugon poster
6.4

Gamera escapes from his rocket enclosure and makes his way back to Earth as a giant opal from New Guinea is brought back to Japan. The opal is discovered to have been an egg that births a new monster called Barugon. The creature attacks the city of Osaka by emitting a destructive rainbow ray from his back, along with a freezing spray capable of incapacitating Gamera.

Gamera vs. Barugon

1966

Yoru wa usotsuki poster
NR

A small restaurant tucked away in the back of Ginza is run by Keiko, the owner’s daughter. Writers, club owners, corporate executives, and others are drawn to her charm.

Yoru wa usotsuki

1960

A Wife Confesses poster
6.7

Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.

A Wife Confesses

1961

Ten Women in Black poster
5.9

Kaze is a philandering TV producer. His wife and nine of his mistresses conspire to kill him. However each woman would rather keep him alive, as long as she was the only woman in his life.

Ten Women in Black

1961

Ken poster
7.7

Kokubu, captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa, a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

Ken

1964

Les Mesdemoiselles poster
6.5

A romantic comedy depicting the variant and whimsical daily lives of the Japanese mademoiselles in the Metropolis of Tokyo. How they react against the bold spirited love makers and begin to take a liking to them is the theme of the picture.

Les Mesdemoiselles

1961

Thousand Cranes poster
8.2

The entangled relations between the son of a seductive tea-ceremony teacher and the women in his father's life. Based on the novel by Kawabata Yasunari.

Thousand Cranes

1969

While Yet a Wife poster
7.0

A wife is diagnosed with an incurable disease at a young age. Her husband loves her, supports her, and tries to stay with her. However, the wife is tormented by the fact that she is ruining her husband's future, and decides to divorce him as the only thing she can do for him.

While Yet a Wife

1965

She Came For Love poster
9.0

Toshiko is the madam of a bar in Osaka who tries to keep her private life private and claims not to have a lover. However, she is in fact having a secret affair.

She Came For Love

1963

High School Geisha poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

High School Geisha

1968

The Pit of Death poster
9.0

Kuramoto, who works for a large trading company, is a skilled employee who is well-liked by the company president. He is engaged to an employee named Nishino Etsuko, but he used her for his own career advancement and kills her so that he can marry the company president's daughter. When Kuramoto returns from his honeymoon with his new wife, Etsuko's brother shows up in search of the whereabouts of his missing sister.

The Pit of Death

1968

The Suitors poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Suitors

1967

Closing Time poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Closing Time

1962

Back Stairways poster
NR

A young man named Kijima who works as a pianist in a small bar is surprised when one of the customers asks if he won't pretend to be the fiance of his sister. He is even more surprised when he is offered a million yen to play this apparently harmless role. Actually, it is anything but harmless. Both the customer and his sister are involved in a jewel robbery in which they have double-crossed two of their accomplices who are now out of prison and thirsting for revenge.

Back Stairways

1965

Prize of Flesh poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Prize of Flesh

1961

1950s · 40 titles

Shoya naki kekkon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Shoya naki kekkon

1959

Nureta hitomi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nureta hitomi

1959

Inhibited Love poster
NR

Chieko Izumi is a reporter for the magazine "Weekly Japanese Women". She had come to Tokyo to stay with her aunt in order to escape her stubborn grandmother in her hometown in Kyushu, who was trying to force her to marry Komori, the local ringleader.

Inhibited Love

1955

Duel at Noon poster
NR

Judo movie.

Duel at Noon

1957

The Bride Carries On poster
NR

Keita, who had been taken along as a cover for his father-in-law’s affair, was discovered by his new wife when she unexpectedly showed up while he was sharing a room with a geisha.

The Bride Carries On

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Gendai shojo

1953

Zoku bakurō ichidai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Zoku bakurō ichidai

1952

Rōkyoku tengu dōjō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rōkyoku tengu dōjō

1955

Hahabue kobue poster
NR

Taki dedicated her life to her daughter Miyoko, but they were separated by Taki's parents-in-law. Many years later, they reunite in a party, but Taki falls gravely ill with a long disease. During those years, Miyoki studies Medicine and will be finally able to help her mother.

Hahabue kobue

1955

Dorei no machi poster
NR

Yosuke Machida of the Daito Shinpo hears from a boy named Toshi-bo, whom he found on the street, that Toshi-bo’s older sister, Toyo, was deceived by a man named Taichi Tachikawa and sold into prostitution in a red-light district. He then set foot in this district for the first time and met Michiko Kawabe, a female reporter known by the nickname “Yoshie.” After hearing various details about the situation from her, he learned that Toyo was at “Kotogawa.”

Dorei no machi

1951

Atarashiki ten poster
NR

A man and a woman whose love is forbidden due to a feud between their parents resolve to die together and head to the island of Sado.

Atarashiki ten

1954

Asakusa Lights poster
NR

A passionate singer who’s rough around the edges but has a warm heart; a kind-hearted, impoverished painter who devotes himself wholeheartedly; and a beautiful opera singer loved by both of them—the joys and sorrows of Asakusa during the golden age of opera.

Asakusa Lights

1956

Tsuki no kōdōkan poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tsuki no kōdōkan

1956

Teen-ager's Resistance poster
NR

A college student falls in love with a notorious delinquent girl.

Teen-ager's Resistance

1955

Konna okusama mita koto nai poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Konna okusama mita koto nai

1954

Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi poster
NR

A kind-hearted medical student, an ill-fated young woman, an innocent young lady in a school uniform, and a medical student whose rational beauty conceals her true feelings… The stories of love and friendship that unfold in a poor town shrouded in fog.

Kawa no aru shitamachi no hanashi

1955

Miss Teacher poster
NR

As she takes a position as a gym teacher at a girls’ school as a form of “life training” before marriage, what awaits her is… A coming-of-age story of laughter and tears that unfolds at this all-girls’ school, revolving around a rookie teacher.

Miss Teacher

1955

Utau onna kengeki poster
NR

A musical entertainment piece centered on a traveling women’s sword-fighting troupe.

Utau onna kengeki

1953

Asakusa monogatari poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Asakusa monogatari

1953

Haha no mizūmi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Haha no mizūmi

1953

Dancing Girl poster
8.0

In Asakusa, Tokyo, a couple of a violinist Yamano and a revue dancer Hanae lives in poverty. One day Hanae’s little sister rolls into their apartment and begins to stir things up with her riotousness.

Dancing Girl

1957

Lightning poster
7.3

The story of Kiyoko, a young woman who has successfully managed to make a break with her dysfunctional family who have been trying to arrange a marriage for her with a disagreeable man whom she has rejected.

Lightning

1952

Warm Current poster
7.8

The story revolves around a young man appointed to rescue a troubled hospital who must choose between two women, a dedicated nurse or a spoiled rich girl.

Warm Current

1957

No artwork available
NR

Seventeen years have passed since that ill-fated mother and daughter parted with tears in their eyes. The mother, unable to reveal her name, peered through the window at her daughter in her wedding gown, her eyes filled with tears.

Haha zukiyo

1951

Saijoke no kyoen poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Saijoke no kyoen

1951

The Crowded Train poster
6.8

Tamio Moroi, a young university graduate, works at a large brewery where he is taught to do nothing but look busy. When his father goes insane, he is told to send money for medical research into the condition. This prompts him to pay his father a visit, leading to a series of mishaps that leaves him at the bottom of the heap in what he once expected to be a promising lifetime career.

The Crowded Train

1957

The Sea of Beauty poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Sea of Beauty

1950

Nanatsu no seiza poster
NR

A story of first love between a misogynistic astronomer and a dancer he met on the street.

Nanatsu no seiza

1951

Escape Between Midnight and Dawn poster
NR

A yakuza man who dreads being released from prison, yet the day of his release arrives. Awaiting him are a woman’s burning gaze and the muzzle of a gangster’s gun…

Escape Between Midnight and Dawn

1950

Kyūjō hiroba poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kyūjō hiroba

1951

The Cast-Off poster
8.0

The inventor of a ground-breaking glue, Sanada, becomes rich thanks to his discovery a high executive in his company. Because of this promotion, his world is changing completely : his wife behaves like never before, considering she's now rich and has the right to do whatever she wants, even having an affair. (Also occasionally known in English as “Overflow”)

The Cast-Off

1959

The Messenger from the Moon poster
NR

Adaptation of the novel by Masao Kume.

The Messenger from the Moon

1954

The Betrothed poster
8.0

Adaptation of the Yukio Mishima novel.

The Betrothed

1957

Mother poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mother

1958

Love River poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love River

1958

The Eyes of Two People poster
8.0

Futari no hitomi (二人の瞳, Futari no hitomi, The Eyes of Two People) a.k.a. Girls Hand in Hand (USA title) is a 1952 black-and-white Japanese film directed by Shigeo Nakaki.

The Eyes of Two People

1952

Made in Japan poster
NR

A love affair between a beautiful fashion designer returning from France and a naïve young judo player against the backdrop of Japan in the early post-war period, where new customs and old traditions mix.

Made in Japan

1953

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Honoo no hada

1951

Nenneko Shain poster
NR

A handsome and pure-hearted employee who thought he was single actually has a secret child. His girlfriend, a beautiful secretary, and the high-maintenance female manager suddenly panic, and the whole company is in an uproar.

Nenneko Shain

1956

Jūdai no yūwaku poster
NR

Film directed by Seiji Hisamatsu and starring Wakao Ayako

Jūdai no yūwaku

1953

1940s · 4 titles