Shun Nakahara

Directing

Shun Nakahara

Born

1951-05-25 (75)

Place of birth

Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan

Known for

Directing

Credits

39 titles

Shun Nakahara is a Japanese film director and a professor at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He started his career with pornographic films, and since then he has dealt with a wide range of subjects regardless of genre. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Sakura no Sono.

Known for

Behind the camera

The Gentle 12 poster
6.6

The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one juror voices second thoughts.

The Gentle 12

1991

Eve's Flower Petal poster
5.8

A young woman wanders aimlessly around a beach resort and has sex with various men.

Eve's Flower Petal

1984

Housewife's Afternoon Delight poster
3.5

Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness and boredom in the form of a door-to-door salesman in this erotic drama.

Housewife's Afternoon Delight

2010

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit poster
6.0

When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not purely accidental.

Tomie: Forbidden Fruit

2002

High School Girl's Diary poster
5.6

A high school girl is recruited by a photographer to be a model for a photo book. Thinking that she can make lots of money she agrees. He starts innocently enough but slowly convinces her to pose for more explicit shots.

High School Girl's Diary

1981

Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You poster
8.3

Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of Sachiko's best friend, a girl. Can he convince Sachiko of his love?

Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You

1990

Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You poster
8.3

Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of Sachiko's best friend, a girl. Can he convince Sachiko of his love?

Anxious Virgin: One More Time, I Love You

1990

Leave My Girl Alone poster
7.5

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…

Leave My Girl Alone

1986

Leave My Girl Alone poster
7.5

Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…

Leave My Girl Alone

1986

The Cherry Orchard poster
4.0

At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".

The Cherry Orchard

1990

Shoya no umi poster
9.0

A wealthy man has relationships with a married woman, an office lady and a high school girl. Two of them are friends, two are sisters and one leaves him frustrated.

Shoya no umi

1984

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming poster
6.0

Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story takes place at a prestigious girls high school where everyone is oppressed with rules. One girl who just transferred to this school finds a long lost script of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" which was banned from school 11 years ago. Breaking strict school rules and boundaries, she and her friends decide to perform the play. With sentiment, love and passion, the girls cherish the moment of their life before taking the next step towards adulthood.

The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming

2008

Concent poster
4.9

In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.

Concent

2002

Onna no naka no futatsu no kao poster
1.0

2004 film

Onna no naka no futatsu no kao

2004

Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit poster
4.4

Muraki is a failure in his job as a salesman and has to deal with his wife's disappointment and criticism at home. One day, after sleeping in a park, he happens upon two women who look like they've been victims of a sexual assault. He helps them but as night comes an increasingly twisted mindgame unfolds between the involved parties and it is no longer certain who's the victim and who's the perpetrator.

Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit

1984

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold poster
NR

A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the amount of money and decided to take over. What's more, all he has to do is carry a huge cardboard box to the man's apartment. The contents of the cardboard are 1 billion yen in cash. It is said that this will be used to make a back loan. In front of the apartment, men line up for the money. Who on earth is Ginji Hirai and what is his motive? And what kind of fate will Tetsuo be involved in from now on ...?

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold

1993

DV: Domestic Violence poster
5.7

Shogo (Kenichi Endo) and Yasuko (Yuka Hanabusa) are happily married. Until one evening when he slaps her in the face for reconsidering the promise she made before their wedding: to quit her job and devote herself to domestic chores once the knot was tied. From that first instance of aggression, things rapidly spiral out of control. Mounting violence becomes the new order of the day between the couple. (from midnighteye.com)

DV: Domestic Violence

2005

Neko no youni poster
4.2

Two sisters living together have a complicated relationship due to a past incident. Trouble begins when one sister becomes interested in a newly divorced man.

Neko no youni

1988

Colorful poster
5.5

Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide.

Colorful

2000

Essential Information for a College Girl poster
4.3

The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.

Essential Information for a College Girl

1981

Makeup poster
NR

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Makeup

1987

Okasare shigan poster
4.3

A lonely interior designer navigates relationships between an overworked sleepy boyfriend, an older man who already has a mistress and her good looking boss. How is she to choose?

Okasare shigan

1982

Someday's Dreamers poster
6.0

Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.

Someday's Dreamers

2008

Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop poster
5.3

A younger sister helps out in her older sister’s barber shop where the customers get a little too frisky. As the younger sister fends off advances from her brother-in-law the older sister has a rather strange and kinky encounter with the cooking show host she idolizes.

Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop

1983

Lie Lie Lie poster
8.0

Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in over ten years, shows up on his doorstep bearing a bag of clams. Though he claims to be the director of a fast-growing trading company, Aikawa crashes on Hatano’s couch for days on end. When the sleeping pills he was offered produce a strange side effect, Hatano is slowly dragged into Aikawa’s con-artist lifestyle. Soon afterward, they cross paths with the representative of a big-name publishing company and Aikawa’s ultimate scam begins to unfold.

Lie Lie Lie

1997

Shakotan Boogie poster
6.0

Two friends are into shakotan, the Japanese term for low-riders. The adventure of low-riding youths includes picking up girls and cross-cultural drag racing.

Shakotan Boogie

1987

Rakugo musume poster
7.0

When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is even asked to perform by a TV producer. The only snag is, the particular story has a curse dripping from its words.

Rakugo musume

2008

Coquille poster
7.6

Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of her first love are revived. Her love for him has never faded even though she married another man and bore his child. What has kept her going is a white shell the boy gave her and a phrase of Jean Cocteau's poem, "My ears are shells, fondly hearing the sound of the sea..." She gets a divorce, returns to her hometown and opens a bar named "Coquille," which means "shell." Without their knowing, an unexpected turn of events awaits the two...

Coquille

1999

Ichigo Chips poster
8.0

Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now in her early 30's she's become quite fond of alcohol and egoism to some annoyance of her loyal manager Tomoko (Kajiwara), who isn't willing to leave her side even though the financial strains of her client are also becoming her personal burdens. Ichigo still gets greeted by her female fans and willingly signs autographs, but getting praised for work that she's done over a decade ago doesn't digest as smoothly as one would assume. Her on and off man, who happens to also be her editor steers toward the off days more than usual as he also grows tired of Ichigo's uninspired ways. But when the going gets tough, Ichigo heads down to a transvestite bar where she's more than welcomed with words of wisdom and a few hard drinks.

Ichigo Chips

2005

Déracine poster
3.7

A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.

Déracine

2004

Sannen-me no Uwaki poster
2.7

A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.

Sannen-me no Uwaki

1983

Slave Contract: Whip & High Heels poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Slave Contract: Whip & High Heels

1982

Curling Love poster
NR

Lee Jin Il is dropped from South Korea's curling team. Kimura Izumi is an unsuccessful actress. These two meet through a series of events, and with the help of their friends, form a curling team and aim for the Olympics.

Curling Love

2007

Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty poster
4.3

No synopsis available yet.

Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty

1982

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 2 poster
NR

Tetsuo was suddenly told goodbye by Ginji. As for the farewell, only one of the tables was a real wad of bills and a full trunk. And, in that, there is a letter saying "Replace all this with the real thing!" Tetsuo is at a loss and one day meets Emi who works at the gallery. She endures the gallery owner of an amorous artist and aspires to be a painter. Tetsuo learns from her that a painting of Cezanne with a market value of 600 million yen has been sold to a Japanese person, and contacts the owner, Domon, the president of Teijin Bank. Inspire the desires of collection enthusiasts and imitation art dealers, and come up with a large-scale money game that opens up ambitions!

Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 2

1994

Yabo dake ga ai o korosu 3: Game no kisoku poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yabo dake ga ai o korosu 3: Game no kisoku

1995

Yabo dake ga ai o korosu 3: Game no kisoku poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Yabo dake ga ai o korosu 3: Game no kisoku

1995

The Dentist poster
10.0

Based on the novel of the same name by Azusa Katsume.

The Dentist

2000

Off-season poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Off-season

1992