Acting

Hinode Nishikawa

Born — Died

1909-03-18 — 2004-01-17

Known for

Acting

Credits

55 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 15 titles

Samurai from Nowhere poster
7.1

Misawa Ihei (Nagato) is traveling with his wife Tae (Iwashita Shima) who abhors the practice of sword fighting for prize money. Tae is the daughter of the clan's chief counselor who married the low-ranking Ihei to avoid becoming the clan lord's mistress. Into the mix comes Oba Gunjuro (Tetsurō Tamba), a mysterious ronin who will do anything for money. This leads to a fitting climax as the forces of hate and love converge while the couple attempt to break through the border!

Samurai from Nowhere

1964

Tough Guy poster
7.0

Asakichi beats a ganster, Sada, in a physical fight, leading to recognition by Sada's clan boss. When Kotoito, the geisha Asakichi is in love with, is kidnapped by a rival clan and sold to a a house of pleasure, Asakichi and Sada set out to rescue her.

Tough Guy

1961

Prison Break poster
7.0

Set up to be the patsy by a rival gang, Furuta Makoto attacks the yakuza boss he thinks is responsible for his father’s murder. He then learns it was all a plot to take over his father’s turf and he seeks vengeance against the puppet master behind the entire conspiracy. His quest for justice leads him to prison where he must fend off the attack of a master assassin before he can make his escape and go after the true killer!

Prison Break

1969

A Country Boss poster
NR

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

A Country Boss

1962

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare poster
6.4

When a Babylonian vampire comes to old Japan, an army of Japanese demons and ghosts gather and battle him.

Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare

1968

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Bad Reputation: Two Notorious Men in Tokyo

1963

Homeless Dog poster
7.0

First movie of the Inu series directed by Tokuzō Tanaka

Homeless Dog

1964

駿河遊侠伝 度胸がらす poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

駿河遊侠伝 度胸がらす

1965

Bloody Shuriken poster
8.0

Ronin samurai Ibuki-san enters a town and sells his skills to the warring families. He falls in love with the beautiful horse stable owner but like all heroes, cannot stay.

Bloody Shuriken

1965

The Three Magicians poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Three Magicians

1960

手錠無用 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

手錠無用

1969

The Funeral Racket poster
7.0

The film portrays a satirical view of today's heartless money-oriented society.

The Funeral Racket

1968

New Bad Reputation Continues poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

New Bad Reputation Continues

1962

No artwork available
NR

First "Pfc. Story" sequel and eighth overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Pfc. Story - Behind the Enemy Lines

1960

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

1950s · 36 titles

Unchan monogatari poster
NR

A heartwarming comedy about Osaka’s slowest taxi driver who searches all over the city for the missing daughter of a former general who has just returned from military service.

Unchan monogatari

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ōtotsu gankutsuō

1957

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Kakushigo sōdō

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Mayoigo hiroi ko

1956

Undercurrent poster
6.2

In Kyoto a young kimono maker with traditional ideas gets involved with a married professor.

Undercurrent

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Okesa karasu

1958

Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Yūtō rakudaisei poster
NR

A rival diner opens next door, the model student third son fails his college entrance exams, and the good-natured dad finds himself in a whirlwind of trouble as internal and external crises come one after another.

Otōsan wa ohitoyoshi: Yūtō rakudaisei

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ōedo ninki otoko

1957

Kaette kita yūrei poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Kaette kita yūrei

1955

Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts poster
NR

Period comedy with fantasy elements.

Ishimatsu Travels with Ghosts

1959

Stray Cat poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Stray Cat

1958

An Osaka Story poster
6.0

A poor peasant, after years of scraping, becomes a rich and powerful Osaka merchant. Mizoguchi Kenji's final project; he died before completing it and directing duties turned over to Yoshimura Kozaburo.

An Osaka Story

1957

Ichiya no hyakuman chōja poster
NR

After finding a winning lottery ticket, the daughter and wife convince their father who’s been acting like a millionaire that it’s all just a one-night dream, hoping to cure his gambling habit.

Ichiya no hyakuman chōja

1957

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel poster
NR

First sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Story of Second Class Private, Sequel

1956

The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat poster
10.0

The head of Oshu, Harumichi Honma, was ordered by the boat bugyo (Commissioner of the board) Tajima Kuze to extract five gold coins to the Shogun family in Edo, and put it into Ryujin Maru. However, Tajima, who was the chief retainer of the shogunate, said that he was a member of the board, tetsugoro Funabashi, kumiyumi no Kami ichibei, and his son, masakichi, and others, and in the middle of the night, he killed all the members with poison in the night of the storm, threw Masayoshi, who was a fellow of the city, and masakichi, who escaped from the death of poison, into the sea and sank the boat to eliminate evidence.

The Detective Denshichi Case Files: The Beautiful Bat

1957

Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Travel Chronicles of Yaji and Kita

1956

Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi poster
6.5

From birth Hideyoshi was a restless, defiant spirit--a child of the poorest of the poor. Cast out of his peasant cottage, he would live by his wits, driven by his burning ambition to become a samurai and to find a warlord worth pledging his sword to. This is the story of his rise, and the thunderous battle he pinned his hopes on. The challenge that had already ruined and bloodied the armies of higher-ranking samurai than Hiyoshi. The battle that brought him rank, fame and fortune and transformed him into Hashiba Hideyoshi, right-hand man to the ruthless Lord Oda Nobunaga, and would drive him on to conquer Japan.

Taikoki - The Saga of Hideyoshi

1958

Tenament Party for Edo-ites poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Tenament Party for Edo-ites

1958

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3 poster
NR

Third film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.3

1954

Room for Let poster
7.0

When Yumiko Tsuyama, a potter by profession, comes inquiring about a room for rent in an old mansion overlooking Osaka, she finds a bizarre collection of characters already living there. The unlikely leader of this menagerie is Yoda Goro, who speaks four languages fluently, is an expert in cabbage rolls, and has written how-to books encompassing every aspect of human existence.

Room for Let

1959

大当り男一代 poster
NR

Shinzō, the heir of the prominent Edo lumber dealer Yamashiroya, left home when his stubborn father, Chōzaemon, dismissed his lover, the maid Oyasu. Shinzō and Oyasu set up a household near a soba shop in Fukagawa, but Shinzō struggled financially, turning to gambling and fighting, while Oyasu worked as a tea server in a theater, constantly harassed by a small-time gangster, Rikichi, for cigarette money. The only ones concerned about Shinzō and Oyasu were Shinzō’s sister, Omitu, and her dance teacher, Oyoshi. Later, Shinzō managed to get a job at another lumber dealer, but after a conflict with the detective Hansuke, who was also infatuated with Oyasu, Shinzō accidentally dropped lumber into the river and was fired. Unaware that Oyasu had borrowed money from a bar to repay the lumber dealer, Shinzō left to earn money in the Mito clan's crew quarters and ended up rescuing Rikichi from a dice game trouble.

大当り男一代

1956

Denshichi Torimonocho: Vampire Spider poster
NR

In the town of Izu known for its hot springs, Den Shichi from Kuromon Town sets off for a healing trip with his companion, a bamboo craftsman with a nose like a lion's snout, at a time when the town is under a tight security network due to a nearby gunpowder depot explosion. Staying at Tsuruya, Den Shichi and his group are investigated by officials whose behavior seems somewhat odd. That night, a man looking like a craftsman is murdered, and gunpowder residue is found at the scene, prompting Den Shichi to suspect that something is amiss.

Denshichi Torimonocho: Vampire Spider

1955

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Big Laugh Festival of the Edo-ites

1959

The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

The Life of a Uniquely Interesting Man: Katsura Harudanji

1956

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.5 poster
9.0

Fifth film in the 'Travels of Lord Mito' franchise.

Travels of Lord Mito Pt.5

1954

Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi poster
NR

A frenzy of goodwill, tears, laughter, and a lot of fun, caused by thirteen children under the guise of a good-natured fruit vendor and his wife.

Otōsan wa Ohitoyoshi

1955

The Adventures of Chuji poster
10.0

Chuji Kunisada runs into strange adventures which tests his skill as a samurai as he untangles intrigue and murder against the backdrop of the majestic Mount Akagi.

The Adventures of Chuji

1957

大江戸出世双六 poster
NR

Isshin Tasuke, a friend of Ōkubo Hikozōemon, the esteemed public arbitrator of the realm, saved the maid Onatsu from punishment after she accidentally broke a plate gifted by Lord Ieyasu. Tired of the strict samurai service, Tasuke moved to the Genbei tenements and opened a fish shop. This tenement housed various characters, including the landlord's daughter Osen who had a crush on Tasuke, the midwife Okan, the blind masseur Oyone and her husband, the carpenter-loving couple Yoshigorō and Ohama, the rōnin Takeuchi Yogoemon, and the siblings Ochika and Shin'nosuke who cared for their sick mother.

大江戸出世双六

1955

Beautiful Gonpati poster
NR

A foot soldier from Tottori domain named Shirai Gonpachi showcased exceptional swordsmanship that even surpassed the domain's champion Honjo Sukehichi during a ceremonial match. Though Gonpachi was promised a promotion to samurai status due to his skills, Sukehichi's father Sukezaemon's intervention out of jealousy prevented this. In anger, Gonpachi killed Sukezaemon and, without realizing it, also mistakenly killed Tomoe, his lover's brother Tsushimo Uemon. Following this, he fled to Kyoto, seeking shelter at the "Murasa" inn operated by Uemon's aunt.

Beautiful Gonpati

1954

Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin poster
NR

One night in Edo, a mysterious woman in a palanquin appeared at the moneylender Yamashiroya, revealing herself to a beautiful woman. She told the owner, Shigebē, that she had come to collect a life he owed from twenty years ago and then left. The same night, Maruiya Genbē also received a visit from the woman's palanquin, and nearby, a man named Manbē was murdered. The detective Hayanawa Gohē concluded the murder was the work of a fox spirit, but another detective, Den Shichi, skeptical of this theory, noticed footprints on the tatami and decided to investigate further.

Denshichi Torimonocho: Female Fox Palanquin

1956

No artwork available
NR

First installment of the "Pfc. Story" series of military-themed comedies from Shochiku, and seventh overall sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

Pfc. Story - The Divine Tempest

1959

The Beloved Imposters poster
NR

1958 Mito Kōmon film.

The Beloved Imposters

1958

The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood poster
7.0

A revenge comedy directed by Torajiro Saito (Oedo's most Popular Man) from a script by Chao Fushimi (The Millionaire of a Night) and shot by Hiro Imai (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)). Starring Achako Hanabishi (Segedei Momoshiki Goten), Tamao Nakamura (Akado Suzunosuke (1957)), Seinen Hayashi (Nijunin no Kenka-jou) and Sumire Harukaze (Harukaze Sumire). Also Rumiko Komachi, Shunji Sakai, Yoshio Tabata and Mieko Suzuki.

The Tower of Nanzenji aka Return to Manhood

1957

Princess Hibari's First Dream Journey poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Princess Hibari's First Dream Journey

1952

Edo Kid poster
NR

Okazaki Domain samurai Inaba Gotaro accidentally killed a superior while trying to save his beloved geisha, Ko-en. On the run, they were rescued by the actor Nakamura Utaemon, but Ko-en was taken by the Hatamoto, Ono Issai. Gotaro, who fell off a cliff, was saved by the Dutch-trained doctor, Shibarai Ryokai, and his daughter Oume. While traveling to Edo, they met Utaemon in Mishima, who was suffering from a serious eye disease. Ryokai’s treatment saved Utaemon from blindness, and a strong friendship was formed among the three.

Edo Kid

1955

続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻 poster
NR

Second sequel to "Story of Second Class Private".

続二等兵物語 南方孤島の巻

1956