Zeko Nakamura

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

Film credits

1960s · 23 titles

A Colt is My Passport poster
7.1

A gang lord hires Kamimura, a hit man, to take out a rival boss who's gotten greedy.

A Colt is My Passport

1967

A Woman's Life poster
7.1

A woman remembers her own marriage when dealing with the love life of her son.

A Woman's Life

1963

The Age of Lawless Moneymaking poster
NR

Contemporary comedy.

The Age of Lawless Moneymaking

1961

The Akasaka Sisters: Soft Touch of Night poster
7.0

Set 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

Salaryman Idea Book: Concern for Success poster
NR

A 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

Happiness of Us Alone poster
9.0

The 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

Tokyo In Love poster
NR

Akio 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

Dash to the Sun poster
NR

A 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

Get Married, Mother poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Get Married, Mother

1962

Love on the Rainbow poster
NR

A seamstress seeks the love of her life while helping a troubled couple.

Love on the Rainbow

1965

The Mad Atlantic poster
9.0

Captain 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

Local Reporter poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Local Reporter

1962

A Monk in the Big City of Edo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Monk in the Big City of Edo

1965

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ginza no jirochō tenka no ichidaiji

1963

A Roaring Trade poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Roaring Trade

1962

Hikkoshi yatsure poster
NR

Manao Horiuchi movie

Hikkoshi yatsure

1961

No artwork available
NR

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

Great Incidents poster
NR

Comedy starring the manzai team of Chick and Tack, and set in the world of salarymen.

Great Incidents

1967

Kono michi akashingō poster
NR

This 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

Traveling in Party poster
6.0

A comedy about Hikoichi, a mediocre train conductor who falls in love with a beautiful widow Sayuri.

Traveling in Party

1967

The Body poster
7.3

The 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

Beyond the Green Hills poster
7.0

Shinko 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

Sentimental Mobsters poster
7.0

A 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

Come Back Soon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Come Back Soon

1957

Mother poster
7.0

A teenaged girl witnesses her widowed mother's attempt to sustain her family.

Mother

1952

Manzai chōchin poster
NR

A 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

Easy-Going Married Couple poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Easy-Going Married Couple

1956

Affair Trip poster
NR

Based on the story "Uwaki no tabi" ("Affair Journey") by Keita Genji.

Affair Trip

1956

The Bride from Japan poster
9.0

A 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

Night of the Suspicions poster
NR

Tatsuo 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

The Story of Pure Love poster
6.8

Junai 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

Fancy Talker poster
NR

Comedy 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

Husband and Wife poster
6.9

A 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

Mariko's Autobiography: Flowing Constellation poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Mariko's Autobiography: Flowing Constellation

1959

Cheerful Detective poster
NR

After 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

House of Many Pleasures poster
9.0

Yoshida 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

Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Comical Detective Story: Hatchan's First Adventure

1955

Here Is a Spring poster
8.2

The 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

Tokyo is a Fine Place poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tokyo is a Fine Place

1957

Norihei's 'Third Level Husband': The Happy Family poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Norihei's 'Third Level Husband': The Happy Family

1956

Yellow Crow poster
6.7

Ichiro 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

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Band in Paradise: Acharaka Is Born

1956

An Inn at Osaka poster
7.5

Follows 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

The Telephone Rings in the Evening poster
NR

In 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

Ninjutsu musha shūgyō poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ninjutsu musha shūgyō

1956

Black River poster
7.0

A 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

Meeting of the Ghost of Apres-Guerre poster
10.0

In 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

Duel in the Sun poster
NR

A film by Kiyoshi Saeki

Duel in the Sun

1950

Mother and Son poster
8.0

An Ishiro Honda film.

Mother and Son

1955

A Long, Comic Story — Houses at the Summer Festival poster
NR

Hachigoro, 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

珍説忠臣蔵 poster
NR

A comedic retelling of the legend of the loyal 47 ronin.

珍説忠臣蔵

1953

Elegy of the North poster
6.1

​Reiko, 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

Where Chimneys Are Seen poster
6.6

Where 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

A Ripple in a Morning poster
7.0

Atsuko 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