Acting
Jin Nakayama
Born September 25, 1942 · Beijing, China
Died October 12, 2019 · aged 77
No biography available.
Known For
Falling Blossoms · 1967Falling Blossoms
1967
MovieDrama
Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.
Ghost Shout · 2004Ghost Shout
★ 8.32004
MovieHorrorComedy
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?
Swift Current · 1967Swift Current
1967
MovieDrama
The Izu Dancer · 1974The Izu Dancer
★ 8.11974
MovieDrama
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.
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars · 1990Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
★ 8.01990
MovieAdventureHorror
A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.
Space Travelers · 2000Space Travelers
★ 6.12000
MovieFantasyAction
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...
A Scream from Nowhere · 1977A Scream from Nowhere
★ 6.71977
MovieThriller
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.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes · 1986Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes
★ 7.01986
MovieActionHistory
The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)
Movies
Falling Blossoms · 1967Falling Blossoms
1967
MovieDrama
Melodrama about the life of an unfortunate composer of the Meiji era, Rentaro Taki, who became known only after his death.
Ghost Shout · 2004Ghost Shout
★ 8.32004
MovieHorrorComedy
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?
Swift Current · 1967Swift Current
1967
MovieDrama
The Izu Dancer · 1974The Izu Dancer
★ 8.11974
MovieDrama
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.
Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars · 1990Ultra Q The Movie: Legend of the Stars
★ 8.01990
MovieAdventureHorror
A series of serial murders occurred in a historic ruins where a TV crew is shooting a documentary.
Space Travelers · 2000Space Travelers
★ 6.12000
MovieFantasyAction
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...
A Scream from Nowhere · 1977A Scream from Nowhere
★ 6.71977
MovieThriller
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.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes · 1986Romance of the Three Kingdoms II: Tensho's Heroes
★ 7.01986
MovieActionHistory
The sequel to 'Romance of the Three Kingdoms' (1985)
The Rendezvous · 1972The Rendezvous
★ 6.61972
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Moment of Terror · 1966Moment of Terror
★ 5.91966
MovieCrimeDrama
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.
Star Reformer · 2006Star Reformer
★ 7.52006
MovieDramaComedy
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".
Romance of the Three Kingdoms · 1985Romance of the Three Kingdoms
★ 8.51985
MovieActionHistory
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.
Pomegranate Time · 1967Pomegranate Time
1967
MovieComedyRomance
Comedy-drama about university tennis players.
Blue Lake Girl · 1986Blue Lake Girl
★ 6.51986
MovieRomanceHorror
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.
Rebellion of Japan · 1967Rebellion of Japan
★ 8.01967
MovieDramaRomance
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.
Danchizuma no sakebi · 1983Danchizuma no sakebi
1983
MovieMystery
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.
Kyoto Yokai Map 4: The 400-Year-Old Adulterous Female doctor Living in Kawaramachi · 1986Kyoto Yokai Map 4: The 400-Year-Old Adulterous Female doctor Living in Kawaramachi
1986
MovieTV MovieHorror
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...
My Destiny · 1968My Destiny
★ 9.01968
MovieDrama
The Night of the Seagull · 1968The Night of the Seagull
★ 7.01968
MovieDrama
A woman has a brief, intense affair with a younger man while awaiting her trial for the murder of her husband's mistress.
Portrait of Chieko · 1967Portrait of Chieko
★ 7.51967
MovieDrama
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...
The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun · 1982The Villain from Edo Kochiyama Soshun
1982
MovieDrama
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.
Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru · 1975Takehisa Yumeji monogatari: koi suru
★ 8.01975
MovieDramaHistory
Based on the life of artist Yumeji Takehisa
Too Young to Die · 1969Too Young to Die
★ 7.01969
MovieActionThriller
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.
Song of Love · 1967Song of Love
★ 6.51967
MovieComedy
The life in a small village in Shikoku and the love story between two young people.
TV Shows
Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game · 2003Gaki no Tsukai No Laughing Batsu Game
★ 9.32003
SeriesComedy
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).
Bayside Shakedown · 1997Bayside Shakedown
★ 8.11997
SeriesDrama
A rookie detective learns that life in law enforcement may not be as glamorous as he thought it would be.
Kusa Moeru · 1979Kusa Moeru
★ 7.01979
SeriesDrama
The story chronicles the life of Hōjō Masako during the Kamakura Period.
Ultraman 80 · 1980Ultraman 80
★ 8.11980
SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy
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).
Hanamura Daisuke · 2000Hanamura Daisuke
★ 9.02000
SeriesDrama
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
Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword · 1993Three Generations of the Yagyu Sword
1993
SeriesDrama
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'.
あした天気になあれ。 · 2003あした天気になあれ。
2003
SeriesFamilyDrama