Kiichi NakaiFilmography

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Crossing Over

Crew: Supervising Producer

Actors: Kiichi Nakai, Miao Pu, Guo Tao, Yu Ailei, Sun Quingqing

Synopsis: A love grows between two people in a place where compassion is in short supply in this historical drama. Born in Japan, Liu Lang (Kiichi Nakai) has spent most of his life in China, and even though it's his home, he doesn't always feel as if he belongs. One day in 1914, Liu gets in a fight with a Read More

2008
Dororo

Actors: Kou Shibasaki, Satoshi Tsumabuki

Synopsis: A fierce woman warrior joins a wandering demon hunter on his quest to recover the missing body parts and regain his natural form in director Akihiko Shiota's adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's popular manga of the same name. Years ago, malevolent ruler Daigo Kagemitsu promised to deliver his unborn son Read More

1/27/07
Hero

Actors: Takuya Kimura, Takako Matsu, Nene Otsuka, Hiroshi Abe, Fumiyo Kohinata

Synopsis: Bayside Shakedown producer Chihiro Kameyama returns with this crowd-pleasing comedy drama spawned by the hit television series detailing a renegade district attorney's efforts to target political corruption in the bustling metropolis of Tokyo. Kohei Kuryu (popular singer Takuya Kimura) is a Read More

2007
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles

Actors: Ken Takakura, Kiichi Nakai, Shinobu Terashima, Li Jiamin, Qiu Lin, Jiang Wen

Synopsis: On the heels of such extravagant historical swordplay epics as Hero and House of Flying Daggers, Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou returns to the reins to tell this intimate tale of an aging father who attempts to remedy a longstanding rift with his grown son. Summoned to Tokyo by his Read More

12/16/05
Wakeful Nights

Actors: Kiichi Nakai, Hiroyuki Nagato, Takashi Sasano, Junko Fuji

Synopsis: Masahiko Makino's willfully offensive comedy Nezu No Ban concerns a beloved comedian (Hiroyuki Nagato) who from his deathbed asks to see the private parts of a woman. The people he has worked with for years attempt to make that dream a reality, but their success has unintended consequences. Based Read More

2005
Warriors of Heaven and Earth

Actors: Jiang Wen, Kiichi Nakai, Wang Xueqi, Zhao Wei, Hasi Bagen

Synopsis: Directed by He Ping, the multi-layered Warriors of Heaven and Earth combines traditional Chinese cinema with the hallmarks of spaghetti Westerns. Set in the eastern portion of the Silk Road, a popular eighth century Asian trade route, the film chronicles the stories of two heroes: Tang Dynasty Read More

9/3/04
Mibu gishiden

Synopsis: When the Last Sword Is Drawn opens in Tokyo in 1899, when an elderly man, Saito (Koichi Sato), brings his young grandson to see a local doctor, Ono (Takehiro Murata). Saito notices an old photo of a samurai in the doctor's home and asks him about it. As it turns out, the photo is of Yoshimura (Kiichi Nakai Read More

2002
Nippon No Kuroi Natsu - Enzai

Actors: Kiichi Nakai, Akira Terao, Yukiya Kitamura

Synopsis: In 1994, nerve gas was released in the Japanese city of Matsumoto, which led to the death to the death of seven people and severe illness in several hundred others. In time, the attack was proved to be the work of a fanatical religious cult known as Aum Shinrikyo (who were responsible for several Read More

2001
Fukuro No Shiro

Actors: Shohei Hino, Shima Iwashita

Synopsis: This satirical spin on the ninja genre from veteran director Masahiro Shinoda opens in 1581 with the invasion of Iga, a "hidden land," by Oda, a rampaging warlord. 50,000 troops sweep through Iga -- a province already developing as a center for ninja arts -- slaughtering everyone and everything in Read More

2000
Ohikkoshi

Actors: Kiichi Nakai

Synopsis: Veteran director Shinji Somai helms this coming-of-age tale about a school-aged lass named Renko (Chieko Tabata) struggling to come to terms with her parents' divorce. The film opens with Renko's mother Nazuna (Junko Sakurada) and father Ken'ichi (Kiichi Nakai) coolly talking about their impending Read More

1993
Fusa

Actors: Kiichi Nakai, Yuko Asano, Frankie Sakai, Hisashi Igawa, Kyoko Kishida

Synopsis: Plans have long been set to enable Seishiro to marry the daughter of the castle warden. He is from too humble a background to marry so exalted a personage, so the head of the Iwai family has formally adopted him in order to give him the necessary social standing. All is proceding in an orderly way Read More

1993
Taketori Monogatari

Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Ayako Wakao, Yasuka Sawaguchi, Koji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai

Synopsis: Princess From the Moon (Taketori Monogatari) is based on an ancient Japanese legend. Toshiro Mifune plays a 9th century bamboo cutter who comes across a curious glass capsule, housing a tiny baby girl who holds a crystal ball in her hand. Once released, the infant instantly becomes a Read More

1987
Final Take: The Golden Age of Movies

Synopsis: This nostalgic backward glance at the earliest days of Japanese talking pictures was originally titled Kinema no Tenchi. The year is 1933: Narimi Arimori plays a lovely young girl who is groomed for film stardom by director Ittoku Kishibe. Narimi's biggest obstacle is a lack of talent, but Kishibe Read More

1987
Eiga Joyu

Actors: Sayuri Yoshinaga, Bunta Sugawara, Koji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai

Synopsis: The Japanese actress and film director Kinuyo Tanaka had a career as significant to that country's movie industry as Lillian Gish's was in the U.S. -- it spanned the early days of silent movies and continued well into the 1970s. This biographical drama covers her career up to the point when she is Read More

1987
Shin Yorokobi mo Kanashimi mo Ikutoshitsuki

Actors: Reiko Ohara, Hayao Okamoto, Kuni Konishi, Hitoshi Ueki

Synopsis: The Japanese title for this drama about human relationships, "(new) times of joys and sorrows," is descriptive of the story. Director Keisuke Kinoshita (director of the first, 1958 Ballad of Narayama) reprises the theme of a lighthouse keeper featured in his 1957 film of the same title (without Read More

1986
Kinema No Tenchi

Actors: Narimi Arimori, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Kiichi Nakai, Chieko Baisho, Koshiro Matsumoto

Synopsis: The environment and the movie stars at a Japanese film studio in the early '30s are recreated in this drama that looks back on a distinctive period in cinematic history. Using celebrated director Yasujiro Ozu as a model, fictional director Ogata (Ittoku Kishibe) discovers a new female star quite Read More

1986
Rokumeikan

1986
Biruma No Tatekoto

Actors: Koji Ishizaka, Kiichi Nakai, Takuzo Kawatani, Atsushi Watanabe, Fujio Tokita

Synopsis: Burmese Harp (Biruma No Tategoto) is Japanese director Kon Ichikawa's color remake of his own classic 1956 film of the same name (aka Harp of Burma), retelling the story of a Japanese soldier whose horrible experiences in Burma during World War II pave the way to his becoming a monk. ~ Hal Read More

1985
Shokutaku No Nai Ie

Actors: Tatsuya Nakadai, Mayumi Ogawa, Kiichi Nakai, Takayuki Takemoto

Synopsis: This gripping docudrama is a fictionalized account of what could happen to a Japanese family when one of their sons shames them in front of the entire nation. Director Masaki Kobayashi has used real events so the dramatic turns in the film are based on fact -- a 1970s shootout in the mountains Read More

1985
The Legend of Plumeria

Synopsis: A windsurfer becomes the true love of a young girl promised to another in an arranged marriage. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1983
Purumeria No Densetsu Tengoku No Kissu

Actors: Seiko Matsuda, Kiichi Nakai, Miyuki Ono, Shinji Yamashita, Miki Jimbo

Synopsis: Long kissing scenes and a mention of abortion do not balance out the stiff dialogue in this film about a Japanese-Hawaiian who falls in love with a wind surfer on a trip to Japan, only to be accidentally killed when her jealous and evil boyfriend tries to eliminate her new flame. ~ Eleanor Read More

1983