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Nobuo Nakagawa

Director · 66 credits · 4 in highly-rated films

Best known for The Man Who Challenged 8,000,000-Koku (1961)

Directed movies (66 total, ranked by score)

  1. Casebook of Dandy Sashichi: The Ox of Edo

    1957

    31

  2. Itahachi shima

    1938

    32

  3. Kyōen Kobanzame

    1958

    33

  4. Stray Sheep

    1955

    Romance, Drama

    34

  5. Umon's Detective Stories: The One-Eyed Wolf

    1951

    35

  6. Enoken's Bow-Wow General

    1940

    Drama, Music, Comedy

    36

  7. 旗本退屈男 唐人街の鬼

    1951

    37

  8. Bored Hatamoto: The Mysterious Coral Mansion

    1962

    38

  9. Today is Payday

    1952

    39

  10. Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 1

    1971

    Horror, TV Movie

    40

  11. Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 1 - Ghost Story at the Kagamigaike

    1971

    Horror

    41

  12. This Is Japan

    1963

    Documentary, Horror

    42

  13. Enoken's Yaji and Kita

    1939

    Comedy, History

    43

  14. Casebooks of Detective Umon: The Incident of the Fawn-Pattern Cloth

    1952

    44

  15. Sea of Wonders

    1978

    Horror

    45

  16. Rivals

    1939

    46

  17. Mysterious Thirteen Nights Volume 2

    1971

    Horror, TV Movie

    47

  18. Enoken's Mori no Ishimatsu

    1939

    Comedy, History

    48

  19. An Edoite Judge

    1953

    Drama

    49

  20. Enoken Enters the Ring

    1940

    Comedy

    50

  21. The Three Swordsmen of Ashura

    1956

    51

  22. Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter 4 - The Yokai Blood-stained Comb

    1971

    Horror

    52

  23. Mysterious Thirteen Nights: Chapter Special - Ghost Story of Tragic Love: Dance of the Folding Fan

    1971

    Horror

    53

  24. Kisan Detective Story: The Mysterious Doll-Maker

    1953

    Drama

    54

  25. The Warrior from Kishu

    1962

    55

  26. Sakura sakazuki: gikyōdai

    1969

    Action, Crime

    56

  27. Sunset Over Mount Fuji

    1952

    57

  28. Japanese Ghost Story Masterpiece Theater: The Sealed Room of the Inner Chamber

    1979

    TV Movie, Horror, Drama

    58

  29. Hibarigaoka Showdown

    1957

    Action

    59

  30. The Poppy

    1941

    Drama, Romance

    60

Credits are ranked using the same weighted score as movie collections. Last updated Sep 6, 2026.