Shin'yō Nara
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Shin'yō Nara.
Born: November 30, 1896
Place of Birth: Akita Prefecture, Japan
Known For
Until the Day We Meet Again
A young man falls in love with a prostitute and is disowned by his family. He is then drafted, and heads off to war. Script exists - considered to be a lost film.
No Blood Relation
An actress returns to Tokyo after a successful stint in Hollywood to reclaim—with the help of her gangster brother—the daughter she abandoned years before.
First Steps Ashore
The story of a sailor who begins a love affair with a woman he saves from suicide.
There Was a Father
Shuhei Horikawa, a poor schoolteacher, struggles to raise his son Ryohei by himself, despite neither money nor prospects.
The Ball at the Anjo House
After Japan's defeat in the war, the Anjo family lose their peerage and wealth. Since their mansion is due to pass into the hands of a creditor, the family holds one last ball before leaving.
Woman of Tokyo
Ryoichi and Chikako, brother and sister, live together. Chikako toils during the day and, at night, prostitutes herself to fund his college tuition.
Introspection Tower
A reformatory in the remote countryside houses 200 delinquents and problem children. The teachers and caretakers face much trouble. The school is often short on water, and one day, the well runs dry.
Victory of Women
Representing a destitute mother in an infanticide trial, a female lawyer attempts to convince a conservative prosecutor of the benefits of Japan's democratized post-war legal system.
Street of Violence
An attempt is made to suppress a journalist's investigation of collusion between a rural police chief and the local gangster bosses.
Nobuko
A spirited young teacher challenges the conservative school employing her with liberal thinking and teaching methods.
Filmography
as Factory boss
as Monjiro Fujikura
as Koizumi
as Furukawa
as Doctor
as Director
as Genjuro Hosokawa
as Yōkichi Hayashi
as Sumako's brother-in-law
as Saida
as Okazaki
as Ishigami
as Kinoshita
as Shunsaku Atsumi
as Father
as Masa
as Kentaro Sekiya
as Kentaro Sekiya
as Eisaku Nagashima, secretary
as His brother