Jin Nakayama

Acting

Jin Nakayama

Born — Died

1942-09-25 — 2019-10-12

Place of birth

Beijing, China

Known for

Acting

Credits

53 titles

Known for

Kusa Moeru poster
7.0

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

Kusa Moeru

1979

Bayside Shakedown poster
8.1

A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.

Bayside Shakedown

1997

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game poster
9.3

After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

2003

Princess Go poster
8.3

Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes of Princess Go, who plays a significant part in establishing the age of peace that lasts over 200 years in Japan.

Princess Go

2011

Ultraman 80 poster
8.1

Takeshi Yamato, a twenty-two-year-old young man lives a double life. During the daytime, he is a rookie but popular science teacher at a junior high school in Tokyo. But after school and on Sundays he works as a member of the elite UGM (Utility Government Members).

Ultraman 80

1980

Hanamura Daisuke poster
9.0

A comical look at the Japanese legal system. Big corporate law firm seeking to increase their profit margin notices that a lot of the partners spend a lot of their time on cases which don't bring in a lot of revenue. They decide they need to hire an average lawyer, at a minimal salary, that will take care of these small cases and not complain. That's why the law firm hires Hanamura Daisuke (Yusuke Santamaria)...to handle these minor cases. Daisuke's approach to the law is very unique and the way he handles each case is very entertaining

Hanamura Daisuke

2000

Film credits

2000s · 4 titles

Space Travelers poster
6.1

Three bank robbers, who declare themselves to be Space Travelers, take six persons as hostages when they are surrounded by the police. Among the hostages, there is a terrorist with a hidden bomb. In order to escape, the robbers ask the hostages to pretend to be part of the gang. Surprisingly, the hostages soon enjoy doing so. On that strange day, the bank becomes a tropical paradise...

Space Travelers

2000

Star Reformer poster
7.5

Satoshi Nomura, a top-level bureaucrat of a prefecture government, has passion for his career. One day, he is hired by the fixed-term personnel exchange training between public and private businesses. This personnel exchange training is part of some big prefecture project. This project is very big, so success of this personnel exchange training will probably determine his career. Nomura goes to a supermarket called "Mantendo".

Star Reformer

2006

No artwork available
NR

A couple died in Lake Tazawa in Akita Prefecture, in an apparent double suicide, the circumstances of which were unclear.

Roving Police Chief Kazama Shohei 2 - Lake Tazawa Murder Case

2004

Ghost Shout poster
8.2

Yoko Sakaki: 24 years old. Occupation: Ghost Negotiator. With her tomboyish attitude and severely bad mouth, she helps ghosts leave this world by shouting at them. But, that work is almost done - she and her boyfriend Toshio are about to get married, and their dream is to open a tofu shop together. However, she has kept her profession a secret from him, instead telling him she is a flight attendant... While out with him one night, Yoko gets a call from work telling her that a ghost has appeared in Hachioji... She goes to bust the ghost with her unreliable new partner, Yanagida, but can she hold on to her relationship at the same time?

Ghost Shout

2004

1990s · 5 titles

1980s · 10 titles

Blue Lake Girl poster
6.5

Nagare, a painter who wanted to commit a lover’s suicide with Mizue, the wife of his friend and patron Takigawa. Growing afraid at the last moment, he doesn’t go through with it – but Mizue sinks to the bottom of Blue Lake. Some time later, Nagare follows an invitation by Takigawa, who claims to have forgiven everything. To Nagare’s shock, Takigawa’s new wife, Ameko, looks exactly like Mizue. While staying as Takigawa’s guest, Nagare becomes haunted by Mizue’s ghost, who wants to be reunited with him at the bottom of Blue Lake.

Blue Lake Girl

1986

Romance of the Three Kingdoms poster
8.5

Sangokushi is set in the waning days of the Han dynasty. Central rule has disintegrated, and the land is controlled by multiple warlords. Liu Bei Xuande is a warrior who aspires to build a just state and to serve the people.

Romance of the Three Kingdoms

1985

No artwork available
NR

The second installment of the special drama "Kawaiteshimau" features Masakazu Tamura playing the role of "Udege Shujo," the official taster for the shogunate. Tamura's unmatched charm in portraying cynical characters is fully showcased in this exhilarating period drama. Audiences can thoroughly enjoy the familiar "Ten'ichibō Incident" in this lively historical play.

A Samurai's Sorrow: The Deadly Sword

1984

Danchizuma no sakebi poster
NR

A man she was once in a relationship with has been killed. A wife keeping a secret from her husband gets involved in a strange case.

Danchizuma no sakebi

1983

Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes poster
7.0

The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)

Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes

1986

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun poster
NR

Kotiyama is a swindler and extortionist, the head of a whole gang of crooks, usually posing as a poor monk; once he really took vows, but he was kicked out of the monastery long ago. He is enterprising, smart and not too cruel, so his accomplices love him. Posing as an envoy from the abbot of the Kennei Temple, Kotiama plays a show in front of Lord Matsue with an income of 150,000 koku, and extorts money from him. The film is based on the famous play by Kawatake Mokuami.

The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun

1982

Hariko no tora poster
NR

Nishimura Gosaku, an aspiring photographer who loves mountain scenery, meets a boy named Sada Ichiro one evening who asks to borrow train fare. For some reason, Ichiro follows Nishimura everywhere. When told to go home, Ichiro refuses, claiming he doesn't want to return because of his estranged parents. Reluctantly, Nishimura lets Ichiro stay the night. The next day, Nishimura takes photos of Ichiro by the Sumida River, and they part ways on good terms. Meanwhile, Ichiro's worried father, Shigeo and mother, Fujiko, desperately ask Ichiro's classmates and tutoring teachers for his whereabouts, but no one knows where he is. Suddenly, Shigeo receives a phone call demanding a ransom of 10 million yen.

Hariko no tora

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Odokumiyaku Shushou Kawaite sōrō

1983

Kyoto Yokai Map 4: The 400-Year-Old Adulterous Female doctor Living in Kawaramachi poster
NR

Ryoko, a beautiful and renowned chief surgeon at a medical university, begins to groan and claw at her throat after rejecting an advance from Tamura, who is infatuated with her. This is a sign that unless she replenishes her supply of hormones from young men, she will revert to her true form as a 400-year-old woman. The next day, Tamura's body is found...

Kyoto Yokai Map 4: The 400-Year-Old Adulterous Female doctor Living in Kawaramachi

1986

No artwork available
NR

One night, Sawatari Shusui saves a geisha named Osode from a ninja attack. Osode's mother is said to be carrying the child of the shogun, Tsunayoshi, and has hidden herself on Hachijo Island. Shusui heads to Hachijo to verify the truth. Meanwhile, Shusui had heard from Tsunayoshi that he was planning to appoint the Kofu Chancellor, Tokugawa Tsunatoyo, as the next shogun, but Sumi's father, Makino Bizen no Kami, whose daughter was pregnant with Tsunayoshi's child, was planning to have his daughter's child ascend to the shogunate and seize real power. Amidst all this, Shusui, along with Osode and his servant, Sasao Yoshinari , sets foot on Hachijo Island and meets Tsunayoshi's son, Kotaro, who was born to Osode's mother. But then a group of ninjas attacks.

The Notorious Bored Samurai 3

1989

1970s · 7 titles

The Three Ginza Rascals poster
10.0

Three men, all named Masa, join forces to capitalize on each of their unique yet questionable talents against a hyper-competitive Tokyo underworld.

The Three Ginza Rascals

1976

The Izu Dancer poster
8.1

While vacationing in the Izu peninsula, a high school student Kawashima becomes intrigued by Kaoru, a pretty young dancer in a troupe of travelling performers, and he tags along with them on their journeys.

The Izu Dancer

1974

The Rendezvous poster
6.6

The brief love story of an attentive young man and a beautiful woman who meet, fall in love and part during the course of a train ride.

The Rendezvous

1972

A Scream from Nowhere poster
6.7

In 1930, the chance meeting of a novelist and one of his fans opens the door to a series of mysterious events culminating in the death of a wealthy industrialist who may have been leading a double life.

A Scream from Nowhere

1977

The Story of Yumeji Takehisa: In Love poster
8.0

Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa, who is most famous today as the definitive artist of "Taisho Romanticism" and for his melancholic paintings of beautiful women (bijinga). His early career was deeply intertwined with Japan's socialist and anarchist movements.

The Story of Yumeji Takehisa: In Love

1975

Skyscraper Murder Case poster
1.0

Death stalks a towering hotel under construction in Tokyo and love brings the guilty parties to a justice of their own choice. The motives are control of the hotel, blackmail and jealousy. The principals involved are two business partners, a political string puller and his son, lovers carrying on an illicit affair and a secretary turned blackmailer.

Skyscraper Murder Case

1976

君は海を見たか poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

君は海を見たか

1971

1960s · 16 titles

Moment of Terror poster
5.9

When the only son of a working class woman is fatally struck by a car driven by the adulterous wife of a company president in a hit-and-run, the victim's mother changes her identity and infiltrates the couple's home to work as their maid, plotting to murder their similarly-aged son.

Moment of Terror

1966

Song of Love poster
6.5

The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.

Song of Love

1967

Portrait of Chieko poster
7.5

Takamura, a poet and sculptor, marries a budding artist named Chieko who dreams of becoming an oil painter. When a series of hardships befall her family, she finds herself unable to confide in her husband, and the pain she carries within begins to weigh heavily on her sanity...

Portrait of Chieko

1967

Pomegranate Time poster
NR

Comedy-drama about university tennis players.

Pomegranate Time

1967

Lemon in the Rainbow poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Lemon in the Rainbow

1968

Too Young to Die poster
7.0

A young couple, composed of a cheating wife and a retired car racer, arrive at a drive-in. A man with a gun arrives at the restaurant and takes hostages. Chaos ensues.

Too Young to Die

1969

Rebellion of Japan poster
8.0

Suzuko, a woman in her twenties who has a brother with political problems (due to communist reprisals), lives for over five years in a love affair with Tate who's a young lieutenant in the Army, ultimately becoming a right-wing fundamentalist revolutionary. She marries another man, one totally dedicated to the rigorous practices of Noh theatre, in an arranged marriage, but the bond that connects her with Tate is too strong.

Rebellion of Japan

1967

My Destiny poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

My Destiny

1968

Dear Tomorrow poster
NR

Youth drama

Dear Tomorrow

1969

The Sea Doesn't Look Back poster
NR

In stark contrast to his elder brother, who is racing along the fast track to success, his younger brother, Reiji, leads a carefree life in Yokohama. He feels sympathy for Mie, whom his brother had dumped in pursuit of a career, but upon learning that she is suffering from a terminal illness and has little time left to live, his sympathy turns into intense love.

The Sea Doesn't Look Back

1969

No artwork available
8.0

Young and beautiful Matsuko lives alone with her father in old Kamakura. Matsuko experienced love once, with Munehiro, who married another girl. But now she is content to live an uneventful life with her father. That is until she meets Munehiro again.

Through Days and Months

1969

The Night of the Seagull poster
7.0

A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.

The Night of the Seagull

1968

The Wonderful Ones poster
7.0

Village Singers film

The Wonderful Ones

1968

Whispering Joe poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Whispering Joe

1967

Falling Blossoms poster
NR

Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.

Falling Blossoms

1967

Swift Current poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Swift Current

1967

Series credits

Kusa Moeru poster
7.0

The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.

Kusa Moeru

1979

Bayside Shakedown poster
8.1

A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.

Bayside Shakedown

1997

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game poster
9.3

After participating to a previous show where they have to bet or be challenged to any kind of competitions, the losing members of the Gaki no Tsukai are selected to spend 24 hours in a setting which they have no knowledge of the theme nor the course of the events. They are exposed to various absurd and crazy situations nonstop for 24 hours and must refrain from laughing. If they do so, hang-men appear and hit the rule breakers with a weapon (the weapon varies every year).

Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game

2003

Princess Go poster
8.3

Princess Go was the youngest of the most famous three sisters in Japanese history, who each led a remarkable life in an age of turmoil and civil war. Go loses her parents in the war, marries three times, and feuds with her own sister in competing for power. Go's husband becomes the second Tokugawa Shogun and she ensures her prominence as she gives birth to a son who later becomes the third Shogun and a daughter, a wife of the Emperor. The drama describes the age of the civil war through the eyes of Princess Go, who plays a significant part in establishing the age of peace that lasts over 200 years in Japan.

Princess Go

2011

Ultraman 80 poster
8.1

Takeshi Yamato, a twenty-two-year-old young man lives a double life. During the daytime, he is a rookie but popular science teacher at a junior high school in Tokyo. But after school and on Sundays he works as a member of the elite UGM (Utility Government Members).

Ultraman 80

1980

Hanamura Daisuke poster
9.0

A comical look at the Japanese legal system. Big corporate law firm seeking to increase their profit margin notices that a lot of the partners spend a lot of their time on cases which don't bring in a lot of revenue. They decide they need to hire an average lawyer, at a minimal salary, that will take care of these small cases and not complain. That's why the law firm hires Hanamura Daisuke (Yusuke Santamaria)...to handle these minor cases. Daisuke's approach to the law is very unique and the way he handles each case is very entertaining

Hanamura Daisuke

2000

あした天気になあれ。 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

あした天気になあれ。

2003

Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword poster
NR

After the 'Incident at Honnoji' (assassination of Oda Nobunaga by Akechi Mitsuhide, a former trusted general), a group of Tokugawa samurai are rescued by a youth named Yagyu Munenori (2nd son of Yagyu Sekishusai from Yamato) and Kizaru (a Ninja), as they are chased by a bloodthirsty group of samurai. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the lord of his clan, then lave a very special gift to Munenori; a samurai's pillbox, (a veritable work of art, with beautiful lacquered designs) which signifies that he is to be hired by the Tokugawa Clan when he grows up. As a result of the assassination, Toyotomi Hideyoshi became the sole ruler of Japan, and confiscated the Yagyu lands since they had sided with the traitorous Akechi. The Yagyu Clan was considerably weakened, and all but disappeared during Hideyoshi's reign as 'Taiko'.

Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword

1993

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

花揺れ

1983

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

白昼の囚人

1985

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

山村美紗サスペンス「黒の環状線」

1980