Production

Toyojirô Nagashima

Born — Died

1907-06-13 — 1975-10-17

Place of birth

Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Production

Credits

9 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

Daydream poster
5.7

While under sedation in a dentist's office, a young art student has sex fantasies about naked women, vampires and a beautiful patient he saw in the office.

Daydream

1964

Black Snow poster
5.3

Black Snow tells the tale of a disturbed young man who, after spying on his mother with a black serviceman, finds himself unable to attain sexual arousal unless fondling a loaded gun. Later that night, he murders the GI before running amok through the building and finally slaying his mother's sister...

Black Snow

1965

Aoi kairyū poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Aoi kairyū

1961

Love New and Old poster
6.7

A woman brings her injured daughter to the hospital, only to realize that the doctor is the estranged father of her child.

Love New and Old

1961

The Dawn of Judo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Dawn of Judo

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hearts A-Flutter

1957

Genjitsu poster
NR

Noh mask maker is unable to carve the young Noh masks he has ordered, and when a beautiful woman invites him to join her in town for a change of pace, he has a mysterious experience, which may be a dream or reality. The film "Genjitsu" (幻日) was completed in the autumn of 1966, but has not been shown to the public. Adapted from Soseki Natsume's novel "Ten Nights of Dreams" with experimental music by Joji Yuasa, the film was long considered lost but re-surfaced in 2017 and was shown for the first time at Kobe Planet Film Archive.

Genjitsu

1966

Confronting Fear poster
NR

Former boxer Goro Kawasaki was attacked by the organizer of the fights for knocking out his opponent because he could not stand the fight. He is being released from prison, where he was imprisoned on charges of causing bodily harm. He meets his younger brother Fumio, who is going to become a boxer and dreams of owning his own car repair shop. Goro tries to help Fumio, but is refused. At this time, the boss of the underworld, whom Goro met in prison, is released, and this escalates into a confrontation involving Goro and Fumio.

Confronting Fear

1958

Sayon's Bell poster
9.0

Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.

Sayon's Bell

1943