Nagayoshi Akasaka

Directing

Nagayoshi Akasaka

Born — Died

1921-01-03 — 1994-06-26

Place of birth

Ogawa, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

21 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

No artwork available
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No synopsis available yet.

Gendai shojo

1953

Evil Brain from Outer Space poster
5.0

An evil brain from outer space unleashes monsters with deadly diseases on Earth with trying to conquer the universe. Superhero Starman must battle them all to save his planet.

Evil Brain from Outer Space

1966

Atomic Rulers poster
4.6

Super criminals are planning to infiltrate Earth with mass nuclear destruction! Only Starman can defend civilization by thwarting evil!

Atomic Rulers

1965

Attack from Space poster
5.3

The superhero Starman is sent by the Emerald Planet to protect Earth from belligerent aliens from the Sapphire Galaxy. The Sapphireans (or "Spherions") kidnap Dr. Yamanaka and force him to use his spaceship against the Earth.

Attack from Space

1965

Invaders from Space poster
4.5

A bunch of pernicious salamander men from the planet Kulimon in the Moffit Galaxy plan on taking over Earth by unleashing a lethal plague on mankind. It's up to valiant superhero Starman from the Emerald Planet to save the human race before it's too late.

Invaders from Space

1965

東京シンデレラ娘 poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

東京シンデレラ娘

1954

Nude Model Murder Case poster
NR

Nude models are being brutally murdered one after another. Is the painter with the dark sunglasses really the killer?

Nude Model Murder Case

1958

Jūdai no seiten poster
7.0

Film directed by Shima Koji and starring Wakao Ayako

Jūdai no seiten

1953

乾杯!女学生 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

乾杯!女学生

1954

Demon King of Yoja Manor poster
10.0

During a packed game at Korakuen Stadium, Eagles’ star Tsubota faints, while singer Kyoko Tsukita collapses on stage at Cabaret Copacana. Goro Hayatori, deputy director of Hayatori Hospital, grows suspicious of Akuri, founder of the new religion “Reihi-kyo,” who had predicted these incidents. Together with his fiancée Mitsuko Nogata and friend Chief Kamimura, he investigates Akuri. It’s revealed that Akuri conspired with Dr. Sakurada, a psychiatrist, using a brainwave-disrupting ray to cause Tsubota and Tsukita’s collapse. Disguised as “Busujima,” Sakurada operates from a nearby villa. Meanwhile, Dr. Stanley from Monotor Republic plans to assassinate conglomerate Maurice and enlists Sakurada to create a half-animal man. Soon after, Akuri predicts Tsubota’s death as Sakurada aims to showcase the creature’s power for profit.

Demon King of Yoja Manor

1957

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties poster
NR

Famed detective Dandy Sashichi tries to solve who's behind the serial murders of six beautiful women under the aegis of local showman Ibaragiya. The film opens with the sextet humiliating a respected painter's portraits of them, driving the man to a sus­picious suicide. Later, while celebrating his son's impending marriage into a wealthy family, Ibaragiya releases six pigeons from a pleasure boat, each with a rolled up drawing of one of the beauties tied to their legs. He offers a cash reward to whomever recovers the pictures, but they instead become death notices of which of the six are next to die.

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: Six Famous Beauties

1956

Star Poisoning Case poster
NR

Japanese crime film.

Star Poisoning Case

1958

No artwork available
NR

Japanese musical.

A 16-Year-Old Girl's Jazz Festival

1954

Half Virgin poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Half Virgin

1953

No artwork available
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Kyūsenman no akarui hitomi

1961

Super Giant Continues: The Devil's Incarnation poster
10.0

The 8th Super Giant film, in which he copes with a disfigured mad scientist, who turns his own daughter into an evil witch.

Super Giant Continues: The Devil's Incarnation

1959

Streetcorner of Teenagers poster
NR

Asako Miura grew up in a wealthy family, but she rebelled against her mother Sawako's adulterous relationship with Akagi, a boss who controlled the underworld, and joined a gang of delinquent girls. Now, she spends her days acting like a queen, surrounded by many teenage yakuza.

Streetcorner of Teenagers

1959

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo poster
7.8

A samurai rescues a mischievous tanuki from hunters and sets it free. When the samurai's wastrel son hatches a plot to kill his father for his fortune, the magical tanuki is determined to protect its rescuer.

Ghost Stories of Wanderer at Honjo

1957

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: The Ox of Edo poster
NR

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi

Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: The Ox of Edo

1957

Super Giant Continues: Kingdom of the Poison Moth poster
8.0

The 9th and final Super Giant film, in which he fights a group plotting to assassinate a Middle-Eastern prince for his country's treasure.

Super Giant Continues: Kingdom of the Poison Moth

1959

Singing in the Sun poster
8.0

After their troupe disbands, musician Moriyama and his friends join Orion Records and form “Orion Stars.” Their song Love Express becomes a hit, exposing corporate scheming but ending with success and new romances.

Singing in the Sun

1960