Kihan Nagase
Writing
Known For
1961 Japanese movie
Sararīman yajikita dōchū
1960 Japanese movie
Jiyūgaoka fujin
The fifth "Ekimae" film set in a Chinese restaurant in Yokohama's Chinatown.
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Chinese Restaurant
Three young employees navigate love, ambition, and meddling bosses as workplace crushes evolve into defiant relationships that challenge social expectations.
Modern Salaryman: Bushido Romance
Musical-comedy about nine soldiers deserted on an island in South Pacific.
The Paradise Island Story
1962 Japanese movie
Fūryū onsen bantō nikki
Follow-up to "Ekimae Ryokan." Set around the Yurigaoka and Nishi-Ikuta stations on the Odakyu-Odawara line, the film takes up the problem of real estate around the expanding Yurigaoka apartments.
An Urban Affair
Ayako Wakao portrays a downtown rice ball shop girl whose heart is set on her business. Involved in her life are three young men—stage actor Goro, businessman Kokichi and Sanpei Pachinko.
Triangle Moods
1962 Japanese movie
Hagure kigeki mandara
Fourth entry in the Ekimae series, focusing on the restoration of a Fukushima hot spring inn.
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Onsen
The film adaptation of Kazuo Kikuta novel "Kumo no Ue Dangoro Ichiza", which enjoyed great success at the performances of the Toho Takarazuka Theater at the end of the year. The troupe "Kumo no Ue Dangoro" continues to tour from town to village. The small cast of the troupe includes its leader (Kenichi Enomoto), Norizo (Norihei Miki) and Taizo (Mutoshi Happa), who play female roles - they are all super actors, each of whom plays five roles. Dan Goro dreams of performing in a major theater and tries to put on a big show with a young man he meets in Shikoku named Sakai (Frankie Sakai), but...
The Dangoro Party in the Sky
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The Beauty Expert
1962 Japanese movie
Ottamage ningyo monogatari
The 14th film in the Ekimae series, set in Nagano Prefecture, focusing on the love lives of a group of husbands and their wives.
A Comedy in Front of the Station: Benten
Melodrama about a talented singer who finally makes her debut
Lovers' Duet
1961 Japanese movie
Zoku sararīman yajikita dōchū
Based on the true story of a 17-year old Atayal girl called Sayun Hayun from Nan'oku village, Giran district, Taihoku Prefecture (in current Taiwan) who went missing and was thought to have drowned whilst helping carry the luggage of her teacher Masaki Takita during a storm in 1938.
Sayon's Bell
Based on the comic by Kaoru Akiyoshi
Awamori-kun nishi-e iku
1962 Japanese movie
Breakthrough Course of Women in Trouble
Third film in the "Ekimae" series, this time set in Hamamatsu. A widow named Keiko and her brother Jiro run the bento shop, "Goraku." One day, Keiko asks for advice from her childhood friends Kintaro, a textile manufacturer, and Magosaku, an entrepreneur, about a big-shot from Osaka who wants to invest in her shop. However, Kintaro and Magosaku suspect that things are not what they seem...