Mansai Nomura Movies

During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on the Onmyoji to keep the supernatural forces in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Sachiko Kokubu

A group of demons in the ancient Japanese capital of Heian is dismembering members of a family of Japanese nobles.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mansai Nomura

In 1924 Yuri killed 57 people as a spy before going underground as the madam of a small brothel. There, she encounters an orphan whose family was...

Genre: Action

Cast: Haruka Ayase

In the year 1590, the mighty warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi is close to fulfilling his ambition of unifying all of Japan under his banner when he comes...

Genre: History

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ryoko Hirosue

Kyogen performer Mansai Nomura is taking on the challenge of various attempts to convey the appeal of Kyogen, a traditional art form with a 600-year...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Kyogen performer Nomura Mansai's speciality, Sanbaso, is said to be the oldest form of Shinto ritual in Japan's performing arts. On the occasion of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai's eldest son, Yuki (3 years old at the time), was chosen to play the role of a child monkey in the kyogen play Utsubo...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mansai Nomura

The programme closely follows the birth of a new 'Macbeth' and his journey around Shakespeare. Kyogen actor Nomura Mansai and Shakespeare, and the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mansai Nomura

Kyogen performers Mansaku Nomura, Mansai and Yuki, three generations of father and son! Kyogen is a human comedy! What is the goal of the father and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mansai Nomura

A new documentary film on traditional culture, planned and produced by the Pola Foundation for the Promotion of Traditional Culture, has been...

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Cast: Mansai Nomura

Documentary by film director Isshin Inudo on three generations of the Nomura family of the Izumi school of Kyogen: Mansaku Nomura (89), Mansai (54),...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Mansai Nomura

The three generations of the Nomura family - Mansaku, Mansai and Yuki - who carry the 650-year history of Kyogen and pass it on to the future,...

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Cast: Mansai Nomura

Oedipus, a prince of Corinth, was prophesied to "kill his father and marry his mother." To avoid the fulfillment of this prophecy, he went on a...

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Cast: Mansai Nomura

With Ran, legendary director Akira Kurosawa reimagines Shakespeare's King Lear as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan. Majestic...

Genre: Action

Cast: Tatsuya Nakadai

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Cast: Ryuichi Sakamoto

The film is adapted from the novel of the same name by Akira Masamune. The story takes place in 2020 during the pandemic when the Prime Minister...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Minami Hamabe

When a massive, gilled monster emerges from the deep and tears through the city, the government scrambles to save its citizens. A rag-tag team of...

Genre: Action

Cast: Hiroki Hasegawa

Gamba, a town mouse with a brave spirit decides to go on an adventure to discover the ocean. On his way, he meets a troubled child mouse, Chuta. He...

Genre: Family

Cast: Keiji Fujiwara

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mansai Nomura

In the late 16th century, after the death of Nobunaga Oda, Hideyoshi Toyotomi takes power. The age of war is about to end, but Hideyoshi Toyotomi's...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mansai Nomura

The drama stars Beat Takeshi as General Hideki Tojo, who served as Prime Minister of Japan during World War II and was later executed as a war...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Katsunori Takahashi

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Hideaki Anno

The Japanese adaption of Agatha Christie's famous whodunit "Murder on the Orient Express".

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mansai Nomura

A seemingly lazy salaryman is tasked with managing a company secret.

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mansai Nomura

March 1952, the only doctor in the village Shiba had found a dead body of Sanako. The cause of death is overdose of sleeping pills. Sanako had been...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Mansai Nomura

This film is the memoirs of Takasugi Shinsaku about the life of his great teacher Yoshida Shoin. Yoshida Shōin (吉田...

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Cast: Hashinosuke Nakamura

This documentary follows 200 days in the life of contemporary artist Hiroshi Sugimoto— a leading presence in the world of modern art. He is the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Hiroshi Sugimoto

Detective Suguro is enjoying a stay at a luxurious hotel in Wakayama. Also staying at the hotel is an unusual family led by rich widow Mrs. Hondo....

Genre: Crime

Cast: Mansai Nomura