Acting

Akemi Nara

Born

1935-06-15 (91)

Known for

Acting

Credits

18 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 6 titles

1960s · 7 titles

Pitfall poster
7.3

A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town's population of lost souls.

Pitfall

1962

Tale of Army Brutality poster
9.5

Director Jun'ya Satô's debut film focuses on the inhuman training of recruits, the brutal drill system that reigned in the Japanese army during World War II, where in the first two years of training, ordinary people were turned into inhuman killers. For his first film, the director was awarded the Blue Ribbon Awards in the Debutant of the Year nomination.

Tale of Army Brutality

1963

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

The End of Love poster
NR

A leading postwar Japanese film critic and theorist who co-founded the seminal film magazine Eiga Hihyo (Film Criticism) in 1957, Eizo Yamagiwa made his directorial debut with this independent feature—long thought lost until a negative was recently discovered—about a group of idle bourgeois students known as the “Roppongi Tribe” (Roppongi zoku). Depicting the resignation and nihilism of the postwar generation in the years following the Anpo Treaty conflicts through a coming-of-age narrative, Yamagiwa offers sharp criticism of the prevalent characterizations of Japan's new youth offered by Nikkatsu's taiyozoku (“Sun Tribe”) films and the New Wave at large.

The End of Love

1961

Police Precinct Part 14 poster
NR

An elderly woman, Ume Matsumoto, informed the First Investigation Department that her son Hirasaka, who runs a shoe store, had disappeared. The detectives had a bad feeling which hit the mark, an unidentified drowned body is identified as Hirasaka. Some prime real estate he owned was also mysteriously sold. Suspecting that this is a planned murder and fearing the escape of the criminal, the Department begins to investigate secretly, without creating an investigation headquarters.

Police Precinct Part 14

1960

We Sell It Because It Sells poster
7.0

Young bartender operates secret sex club as a profitable side business.

We Sell It Because It Sells

1969

East China Sea poster
10.0

Rokurō starts a part-time job on a fishing boat, but the ship has an engine failure in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

East China Sea

1968

1950s · 5 titles

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

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer poster
NR

After discovering a slaughtered corpse, the investigating team of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department began canvassing the area around the crime scene. As a result, they found a wallet with bloodstains that seemed to belong to the victim, a woman's wallet that did not fit the field, earrings, and other valuable materials, which led them on a foot search. The woman's purse had been picked up by a male prostitute on the subway, and from the prostitute's testimony, they were able to identify the pickpocket's face, but the next day, the man was found dead in a road accident, apparently murdered.

Police Precinct: The Pickpocket Killer

1957

Points and Lines poster
6.2

Based on Matsumoto Seicho's classic mystery novel of the same name, the story centers around a group of detectives who are determined to find the truth behind an apparent double suicide.

Points and Lines

1958

Police Precinct Part 8 poster
NR

Four taxi drivers are found dead in four days. Suddenly, a taxi, trying to avoid hitting a patrol car, veers off and hits a tree. Three men run out and escape. From inside the truck comes the body of the taxi driver.

Police Precinct Part 8

1958

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead poster
NR

King Rose returns, unleashing terror from beyond the grave. Detective Kotaro Ran, as Seven-Color Mask, investigates eerie crimes. As he unravels the mystery, he faces deadly traps and a final battle to stop King Rose's reign.. The third and final installment of Seven-Color Mask: King Rose.

Seven-Color Mask: King Rose - Challenge from the Dead

1959