Yūji Nanto

Acting

Yūji Nanto

Born — Died

1924-04-26 — 1973-03-19

Place of birth

Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 29 titles

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Kanpai! Sararīman shokun

1962

Hot Springs Geisha poster
3.4

A look at the lives of a troupe of geishas working in a small seaside resort town. For the most part, their lives consist of greeting boatloads of oversexed businessmen and providing bawdy entertainment through the evening followed by private companionship at night, interspersed with occasional catfights with the rival geisha house. Their routine is suddenly thrown off by the appearance of an abandoned baby in the geishas' dormitory, followed by its disappearance only a short time later. Who could be responsible for such a thing?

Hot Springs Geisha

1968

Nonsense Boys poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Nonsense Boys

1963

Fūun shōgidani poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fūun shōgidani

1960

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations poster
7.5

This anthology film consists of nine incidents in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when assassins changed the course of Japanese history.

Memoir of Japanese Assassinations

1969

Heso no taisho poster
10.0

1962 Japanese movie

Heso no taisho

1962

Tale of Ninja Duty poster
1.0

Mumyo Tsunataro killed his betrayed fiance Orie and He flees to Utsunomiya. On his way he happens to saves Chisaka Hyobu's daughter Oyu (She is exactly like Orie) be attacked by ninja. Thus he stays Chisaka's residence in Yonezawa. Chisaka was just trying to stop Forty-seven ronin's revenge against Kira Kozukenosuke by female ninja's sexual entrapment. Chisaka asks Tsunataro to lead female ninja. Tsunataro accepts the request on condition of marriage to Oyu.

Tale of Ninja Duty

1965

Shin kitsune to tanuki poster
7.0

1962 Japanese movie

Shin kitsune to tanuki

1962

A Country Boss poster
NR

A country boss gives up his way of life because of his daughter's marriage.

A Country Boss

1962

Yakuza Hooligans poster
7.0

A bunch of young, angry and penniless misfits are full of great vitality. They aren’t quite up to joining the yakuza and execute a variety of petty scams. After being approached by a yakuza and asked to become a spy for them, they are now planning to take 10 million yen from the yakuza.

Yakuza Hooligans

1966

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoodlum Soldier's Flight to Freedom

1966

Nunnery Confidential poster
5.5

Erotic Pinku film showcasing he life of Buddhist nuns during the Edo Period.

Nunnery Confidential

1968

Dangoro's 'Above the Clouds' Group' Sequel poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dangoro's 'Above the Clouds' Group' Sequel

1963

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Fūryū onsen bantō nikki

1962

Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō poster
NR

1961 Japanese movie

Kawachi fudoki zoku oiro ke seppō

1961

Bad Reputation Returns poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Reputation Returns

1961

The Domain poster
6.5

The feud between two rival delivery companies, Kibamasa and Okiyama, heats up as the head of Kibamasa falls ill.

The Domain

1964

This Is Youth! poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

This Is Youth!

1966

Naite waratta hanayome poster
NR

1962 Japanese movie

Naite waratta hanayome

1962

Chivalrous Nature poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Chivalrous Nature

1965

The Lightning Sword poster
8.0

Shinjiro is a rambler, a single sword carrying lone wolf with only his fighting skills to protect him. He doesn’t know where his road leads, only that he must find his lost sister, and the ronin who stole her away. The ronin that Shinjiro has sworn to kill. On the road he’ll find his sister and test his blade against his bitter enemy. He also encounters a lost boy searching for his father, a boy he will swear to protect, and find his own lost love, a daughter of the yakuza who draws him into a frenzied and bloody battle between rival yakuza gangs for the control of a frightened town.

The Lightning Sword

1962

A Laughable Journey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

A Laughable Journey

1964

The Confusing Journey of Jirocho poster
9.0

An entertaining historical drama featuring popular comedians from the Kansai region of the time, such as Makoto Fujita, Minoru Shiraki, and Gannosuke Ashiya. Raizo Ichikawa as the famous yakuza boss Jirocho.

The Confusing Journey of Jirocho

1963

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Nakayoshi ondo: Nippon ichi dayo

1962

Sucharaka Shain poster
NR

Maeda Yoichi's film adaptation of the long-running TV comedy series of the same name (1961-1967; TBS) written by Kagawa Toshio and produced by Sawada Takaharu (Tenamonda Sandogasa). The humorous story of a group of likeable loser ("sucharaka") employees at an Osaka branch who learn that unless they band together and actually work(!), their company will go into bankruptcy. Miyako Chocho appears as the Company President.

Sucharaka Shain

1966

Kanto Woman Infamy poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kanto Woman Infamy

1969

Shikaku yashiki poster
10.0

1961 Japanese movie

Shikaku yashiki

1961

Kanbi no san-tō shain poster
NR

Japanese comedy film.

Kanbi no san-tō shain

1961

Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness poster
NR

Chutaro and Toshiko, a married couple who run a Zenzai shop called "Shiratama Zenzai," lived next to Hozenji Temple. Chutaro was a playboy who easily fell in love with women, and had no interest in business. Even if he occasionally offered to deliver food, it was only to meet the girls. However, Toshiko, who was a reliable person, would always get the better of him with her phone calls, and Chutaro's hopes were always dashed. Then, when a beautiful waitress, Ayako, came to him for advice, Chutaro's heart began to lean towards her. Chutaro also attended the same cooking school as Ayako, and would pursue Ayako even after school. But when Toshiko found out, things got complicated!

Chocho and Yuji's Marital Goodness

1965

1950s · 25 titles

Stray Cat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stray Cat

1958

The Blue Sky Maiden poster
7.1

Yuko is sent to the coastal regions to be raised away from the rest of her sophisticated family where she finds out from her ill grandmother that she is not who she thought she was.

The Blue Sky Maiden

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Sanji museigen

1956

Spring Comes to the Comic Duo's Long Houses poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spring Comes to the Comic Duo's Long Houses

1956

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

Tenament Party for Edo-ites poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tenament Party for Edo-ites

1958

Youth on Top of the Hill poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Youth on Top of the Hill

1959

Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big Edo's 1,000 Ryo Festival

1958

Bottomless Ninjutsu War: I'll Disapppear poster
NR

The second "Bottomless Ninjutsu War" feature.

Bottomless Ninjutsu War: I'll Disapppear

1958

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big Laugh Festival of the Edo-ites

1959

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Bottomless Ninjutsu War

1958

Violent Ishimatsu poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Violent Ishimatsu

1959

The Princess of Badger Palace poster
9.0

Princess Kinuta runs away from the palace because she doesn't want a marriage of convenience. Princess Kinuta, who has never left the palace, didn't enjoy communing with wildlife for long when she was chased by bandit moles and accidentally fell into the Valley of the Spider's Web. The princess and a white butterfly bound by a mysterious thread were about to be eaten by the spider queen when they are rescued by Tanukichiyo, a young wandering samurai who happens to be passing by. Historical fantasy comedy starring Hibari and Izumi.

The Princess of Badger Palace

1958

Otora-san's Legal Holiday poster
NR

The fifth "Otora-san" feature.

Otora-san's Legal Holiday

1958

Management Apartment's Surprise Big Broadcast poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Management Apartment's Surprise Big Broadcast

1959

No artwork available
NR

1959 japanese movie.

The Man Who Came from the Sea

1959

Management Apartment poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Management Apartment

1959

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū poster
NR

1957 Japanese movie

Utau yajikita kogane dōchū

1957

Comic Duo's Long Houses in a Panic poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Comic Duo's Long Houses in a Panic

1956

Fighting Is Fun, Too poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fighting Is Fun, Too

1958

Fighting Birds poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Fighting Birds

1956

Yaji Kita manzai dochu-Bakehime sodo no maki poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Yaji Kita manzai dochu-Bakehime sodo no maki

1955

Book of the Mirth-Filled Couple poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Book of the Mirth-Filled Couple

1958

花笠太鼓 poster
NR

In early summer in Edo, Sanshirō, known for his beautiful singing, is a devoted son living in a tenement with his blind mother Okura. He works as a delivery boy for the caterer "Yaoyorozu." His brother, Chōjirō, who disliked being a plasterer, ran away from home and became a subordinate of the yakuza Yamashita no Gonsuke. On a delivery, Sanshirō catches a vagrant child, Erippē, stealing a flower hairpin from Ochiyo, the daughter of the wealthy merchant Narumiyaya Bunzaimon. Impressed by Sanshirō's character, Bunzaimon considers him as a potential son-in-law for Ochiyo, who admires Sanshirō.

花笠太鼓

1956

Yajikita manzai dōchū koshinuke ikka no maki poster
NR

1955 Japanese movie

Yajikita manzai dōchū koshinuke ikka no maki

1955