Hideo Nanbu

Love Tomato (2006)

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Yasuo Daichi  •  Alice Dixson  •  Denden  •  Izumi Imamura

Middle-aged farmer Noda Masao (Daichi Yasuo) is a good, honest man, but his attempts for marriage have all met with failure. Through a friend, Masao meets Liberty (Ruby Moreno), a Filipino woman working in Japan. When they decide to get married, Masao borrows money ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Yasuo Daichi  •  Alice Dixson  •  Denden  •  Izumi Imamura

The Legend of Love & Sincerity: Conclusion (1976)

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Ai Saotome  •  Ryu Kano  •  Toshio Shiba  •  Yoshirō Uchida

Meet Saotome Ai, a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was a small child, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. The young boy saved her life and although she never ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Ai Saotome  •  Ryu Kano  •  Toshio Shiba  •  Yoshirō Uchida

Karate from Shaolin Temple (1976)

The Japanese karate master Muhashi spent some time in Hong Kong studying various Shaolin martial arts styles. Soon the narcotics brigade calls in his help to combat a powerful drug and prostitution syndicate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Ken Kazama  •  Junko Igarashi  •  Henry Yu Yang  •  Kitty Meng Chui

The Japanese karate master Muhashi spent some time in Hong Kong studying various Shaolin martial arts styles. Soon the narcotics brigade calls in his help to combat a powerful drug and prostitution syndicate.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Ken Kazama  •  Junko Igarashi  •  Henry Yu Yang  •  Kitty Meng Chui

Karate Wars (1978)

Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Tōru Abe  •  Charlie Chan Yiu-Lam  •  Nobuo Kaneko  •  Dam Datsakorn

Maki travels from Japan to Hong Kong and Thailand in order to show the superiority of Japanese karate to those countries' native to martial arts.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Tōru Abe  •  Charlie Chan Yiu-Lam  •  Nobuo Kaneko  •  Dam Datsakorn

西村京太郎スペシャル 日本一周「旅号」殺人事件 (2003)

Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Nenji Kobayashi  •  Sayuri Kokusho  •  Shinobu Sakagami  •  Ken Mitsuishi

Hiroshi Hamano, a professor at a medical university, is found dead. Going by the results of the autopsy, it appears he committed suicide by jumping off a roof, but going by eyewitness testimony and physical evidence at the scene, Detective Kamei suspects murder. A ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Nenji Kobayashi  •  Sayuri Kokusho  •  Shinobu Sakagami  •  Ken Mitsuishi

Jingi 2 (1994)

The battle gang Yakuza Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Riki Takeuchi) and the brain gang Yakuza Yoshiro Yazaki (Toshihiko Sakakibara) from the University of Tokyo challenge the summit decisive battle of the extreme society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Riki Takeuchi  •  Toshihiko Sakakibara  •  Kumiko Takeda  •  Yumiko Ina

The battle gang Yakuza Hitoshi Kamibayashi (Riki Takeuchi) and the brain gang Yakuza Yoshiro Yazaki (Toshihiko Sakakibara) from the University of Tokyo challenge the summit decisive battle of the extreme society.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Riki Takeuchi  •  Toshihiko Sakakibara  •  Kumiko Takeda  •  Yumiko Ina

Jingi 3 (1994)

The martial arts group Jin and the economic yakuza Yoshiro Jinyoshi combination ended the conflict with the homology group, and after receiving the orders of Sumida River Association Chairman Sunagawa, Jin was finally appointed as acting leader of the Sunagawa ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Riki Takeuchi  •  Toshihiko Sakakibara  •  Shiho Wakabayashi  •  Naoya Makoto

The martial arts group Jin and the economic yakuza Yoshiro Jinyoshi combination ended the conflict with the homology group, and after receiving the orders of Sumida River Association Chairman Sunagawa, Jin was finally appointed as acting leader of the Sunagawa ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Hideo Nanbu
CAST:  Riki Takeuchi  •  Toshihiko Sakakibara  •  Shiho Wakabayashi  •  Naoya Makoto