
Acting
Zeko Nakamura
Born — Died
1900-12-06 — 1989-12-06
Place of birth
Kishima, Saga, Japan
Known for
Acting
Credits
60 titles
Actor. Appeared on numerous stages and films as a member of the Enoken troupe led by Kenichi Enomoto.
Known for
7.2Two broke sweethearts wander war-scarred Tokyo on a single Sunday, stretching 35 yen as they chase housing, small pleasures, and a little hope.
One Wonderful Sunday
1947
6.4Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
Godzilla vs. Gigan
1972
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Come Back Soon
1957
7.0A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Mother
1952
NRA lantern with a large sum of money hidden in it was sold without the owner’s knowledge. The honest lantern shop owners find themselves in a huge commotion over the lantern in question.
Manzai chōchin
1956
7.1A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A Colt is My Passport
1967
Film credits
1970s · 4 titles
6.4Manga artist Gengo Odaka lands a job with the World Children's Land amusement park only to become suspicious of the organization when a garbled message is discovered on tapes. As Gengo and his team investigate, Godzilla and Anguirus quickly decipher the message and begin their own plan of action.
Godzilla vs. Gigan
1972
8.0Comedy of an entertainment agent and strip-teasers.
Follow the Girls
1971
5.8Former inmate Katsuji gets involved in the horse gambling business while lending a helping hand to a ranch operator.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Stormy Cape
1971
8.0No synopsis available yet.
New Prison Walls of Abashiri: Snowbound Deserter
1971
1960s · 23 titles
7.1A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.
A Colt is My Passport
1967
7.1A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.
A Woman's Life
1963
NRContemporary comedy.
The Age of Lawless Moneymaking
1961
7.0Set in the postwar turmoil, Akasaka no shimai paints a vivit portrait of the life of three sisters who struggle to live in Tokyo.
The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night
1960
NRA beer salesman with a passion for fishmongering stumbles through mishaps, rivalries, and gangster trouble while chasing a big contract, winning the deal through quick thinking—then turns down a promotion to keep working his own way.
Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success
1960
9.0The story is of two people. One is deaf, the other deaf and mute. They marry after meeting at a school reunion, and the film follows their trials and tribulations ... and joys.
Happiness of Us Alone
1961
NRAkio Tsukaro, dreaming of working for a beauty school's flag shop one day, stayed at Bunta Tadokoro without being involved in salon art, even though he graduated from beauty school. One day, Akio saw Michiko, a beautiful girl raining in Ginza. Since then, Akio has become unforgettable with the mascot that Michiko has taken away...
Tokyo In Love
1965
NRA song drama based on the autobiographical song "The sun is laughing" by composer Endo Minoru. It tells the story of a young man who moves to Tokyo with a big dream of becoming a composer, and despite the unfamiliar city life, sticks to his original intentions with the gentle encouragement of his young wife, and takes the music world by storm.
Dash to the Sun
1966
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Get Married, Mother
1962
NRA seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.
Love on the Rainbow
1965
9.0Captain Murakami takes over as skipper of the Azuma Maru, replacing the well-liked former captain. Murakami forces the crew to work harder than they ever have, creating enmity and exhaustion. Just when the ship has taken a huge catch of tuna in its nets, Murakami learns that his ship is the only one in position to rescue the crew of another ship, sinking in a storm. He must choose between saving the catch or saving lives. Either choice may mean his ruin.
The Mad Atlantic
1966
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Local Reporter
1962
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Monk in the Big City of Edo
1965
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji
1963
NRNo synopsis available yet.
A Roaring Trade
1962
NRManao Horiuchi movie
Hikkoshi yatsure
1961
A group of four chorus singers leave their hometown in Kyushu and go to Tokyo to become stars. It’s a musical comedy that shows Segawa’s talent.
The Happy-Go-Lucky Guy
1961
NRComedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.
Great Incidents
1967
NRThis film depicts women who throw themselves into the world of call girls as an easy way to make a living and seek pleasure, only to ruin their lives through money and sex.
Kono michi akashingō
1964
6.0A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.
Traveling in Party
1967
7.3The sexual experiences of the passionate Sakiko, from her fling with her boss in her first job to her ending up as a prostitute.
The Body
1962
7.0Shinko Terasawa was always considered to be the odd ball of the bunch. At a time when romance was against school regulations, Shinko was the first to take a bite out of the forbidden fruit. Expelled from her former school, she finds herself in an all-girls school in Jokamachi, where rumors fly. One day, Shinko delivers an anonymous love letter addressed to her English teacher, Ms. Shimazaki. Convinced that the students are playing a prank, Ms. Shimazaki is adamant about getting to the bottom of this "problem”.
Beyond the Green Hills
1963
7.0A young man who followed his father's wishes and became a travel actor causes a big commotion with his fellow members of the Gurentai group during their travel destination! Innocent to cute girls and reckless to bad guys! Exciting entertainment!
Sentimental Mobsters
1963
1950s · 31 titles
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Come Back Soon
1957
7.0A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.
Mother
1952
NRA lantern with a large sum of money hidden in it was sold without the owner’s knowledge. The honest lantern shop owners find themselves in a huge commotion over the lantern in question.
Manzai chōchin
1956
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Easy-Going Married Couple
1956
NRBased on the story "Uwaki no tabi" ("Affair Journey") by Keita Genji.
Affair Trip
1956
9.0A young Japanese-American comes from California looking for a bride, going on blind dates with three candidates from Osaka, Hiroshima and Nagoya.
The Bride from Japan
1959
NRTatsuo Torigoe, the president of Torigoe Industries, attempts suicide but survives and reveals his motives for suicide to his only daughter, Akiko.
Night of the Suspicions
1959
6.8Junai Monogatari AKA Story of Pure Love is about two poor youths, Mitsuko and Kando, rebelling against society in various ways, who are desperately trying to be together despite tortuous circumstances. The film depicts their lives as thieves, menial laborers who can get little pay, society outcasts, and of course, lovers. Junai Monogatari depicts, mostly, their struggles within the Japanese reformatory system and Mitsuko's worsening sickness.
The Story of Pure Love
1957
NRComedy about a car salesman delivering a late model station wagon from Tokyo to Izumo to a representative of the Japanese Diet, who plans to use the car in a bribe.
Fancy Talker
1958
6.9A married couple looking for an apartment move in with the husband's co-worker, a widower. The husband becomes jealous of the widower and his wife.
Husband and Wife
1953
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Mariko's Autobiography: Flowing Constellation
1959
NRAfter graduating from detective school, Achao and Entaro received their certificates and launched a private detective agency. One night, while investigating Otoyo, the wife of a soba shop owner, the two went to the basement of a theater and unexpectedly stumbled upon the murder of model Ranko Nemoto. Using the earring she was wearing as a clue, they began their investigation.
Cheerful Detective
1954
9.0Yoshida Denkichi does loses sight of his wife Chiyoko and daughter Toyoko during the war, and is taken in by a familiar woman, Oshige, and becomes the owner of "Fujimura" in the town of Hato. Eiko is a timid woman who hates Terada, a watchmaker who is obsessed with her; Tamie is a hard worker who asks for money from customers to support her mother and daughter Teruko; Tane, who dreams of the day they can be together, gives money to her lover Takeda; Machiko, an apres girl, is selective about her customers in the name of romance. They are women working in the red light district at "Fujimura."
House of Many Pleasures
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure
1955
8.2The story of a group of young people who organise their own travelling symphony orchestra to provide music for people living in remote villages shortly after the war.
Here Is a Spring
1955
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Tokyo is a Fine Place
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Norihei's 'Third Level Husband': The Happy Family
1956
6.7Ichiro Yoshida, the father of the boy Kiyoshi, who has been repatriated from China, returns home after a ten-year separation. The father, who has been estranged from his son for many years, pays no attention to the boy, often punishes him unfairly, and gives all his tenderness to his little daughter, who was born after his return. The boy sees all the injustice of his father and, offended, leaves home. The father realized that he was wrong, that he was guilty before his son. The mother finds the boy and brings him home. The father and the son become friends from that day on.
Yellow Crow
1957
NRNo synopsis available yet.
The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born
1956
7.5Follows the story of an insurance company executive from Tokyo, Mr. Mito, who is demoted to the Osaka office. He takes a room at a small inn and tries to rebuild his life.
An Inn at Osaka
1954
NRIn a peaceful town near the Seto Inland Sea, a threatening letter arrives along with the ringing of a telephone... A thriller-comedy that sets this stagnant town ablaze.
The Telephone Rings in the Evening
1959
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ninjutsu musha shūgyō
1956
7.0A love triangle develops between a benevolent student, his innocent girlfriend, and a cruel petty criminal, all as a point of diagnosis of a social disease that had Japan slowly succumbing to lawlessness during the post-War era.
Black River
1957
10.0In a small town, according to the homecoming of Professor Ishinaka, the youth culture group was overwhelmed to make a presentation for the summer festival, but because of lack of funds, she works part-time at the spectacle of a tour, a haunted house Especially. The ghost was a struggle amongst the people, it was a great success in filling the crowd, but in the circus hut next to it, Kenji who was supposed to have disappeared was pitiful.
Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre
1951
NRA film by Kiyoshi Saeki
Duel in the Sun
1950
8.0An Ishiro Honda film.
Mother and Son
1955
NRHachigoro, a carpenter living in the Rakugo Tenement, is an honest and skilled craftsman, but he loves sake more than his three daily meals, and had even been barred from entering the Akasaiya shop where he worked. However, thanks to the intervention of the landlord he was fortunately allowed back in, and Oka, the landlord’s maid who had long harbored feelings for Hachigoro, sent him a celebratory kimono as a gift.
A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival
1954
NRA comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.
珍説忠臣蔵
1953
6.1Reiko, a young woman with a physical disability, begins a clandestine affair with the married architect Katsuragi, but also becomes dangerously obsessed with his unfaithful wife, Akiko.
Elegy of the North
1957
6.6Where Chimneys Are Seen focuses primarily on the interconnected lives of two couples in a lower-middle-class neighborhood in Senju, a poor industrial section of Tokyo.
Where Chimneys Are Seen
1953
7.0Atsuko is an office secretary who is also her family's primary source of income and caretaker in postwar Japan.
A Ripple in a Morning
1952

