Shun Nakahara

Shun Nakahara

Birth : 1951-05-25, Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan

History

Shun Nakahara is a Japanese film director and a professor at the Japan Institute of the Moving Image. He started his career with pornographic films, and since then he has dealt with a wide range of subjects regardless of genre. He won the award for Best Director at the 12th Yokohama Film Festival for Sakura no Sono.

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Shun Nakahara

Movies

Housewife's Afternoon Delight
Director
Sayaka is a sexually frustrated housewife whose husband rarely talks and is always busy with work. But she soon finds an antidote to her loneliness and boredom in the form of a door-to-door salesman in this erotic drama.
Someday's Dreamers
Director
Suzuki Sora is a cheerful country girl from the small town of Bie. She made a promise to her father, and following this promise applies and is accepted for a magic intership in Tokyo, where she will face the life in a big city. While training to get better with her magic, she meets a mysterious boy also practicing to become a mage. While he can not use magic that well and he seems distant and cold at first, Sora’s fate intertwines with his and the two are thrown together, learning a lot of new things about life and each other.
The Cherry Orchard: Blossoming
Director
Remake of a hit film from 1990, "The Cherry Orchard" which Nakahara himself directed, based on a popular comic book from Akimi Yoshida. The story takes place at a prestigious girls high school where everyone is oppressed with rules. One girl who just transferred to this school finds a long lost script of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard" which was banned from school 11 years ago. Breaking strict school rules and boundaries, she and her friends decide to perform the play. With sentiment, love and passion, the girls cherish the moment of their life before taking the next step towards adulthood.
Rakugo musume
Director
When a gal named Kasumi decides to become a traditional Japanese 'Rakugo' storyteller due to her uncle's invalidity, she is soon on her way to a career with college-level and amateur success. She becomes a student to one of the master's of the genre and is even asked to perform by a TV producer. The only snag is, the particular story has a curse dripping from its words.
Curling Love
Director
A group of high school girls learn to play the game of curling.
Ichigo Chips
Director
Ichigo no kakera deals with a female manga artist Ichigo Nekoda (Miyazawa), whose career is heading into a downward spiral as she can't reinvent the success of her 12 year old hit the Cherry Road. Now in her early 30's she's become quite fond of alcohol and egoism to some annoyance of her loyal manager Tomoko (Kajiwara), who isn't willing to leave her side even though the financial strains of her client are also becoming her personal burdens. Ichigo still gets greeted by her female fans and willingly signs autographs, but getting praised for work that she's done over a decade ago doesn't digest as smoothly as one would assume. Her on and off man, who happens to also be her editor steers toward the off days more than usual as he also grows tired of Ichigo's uninspired ways. But when the going gets tough, Ichigo heads down to a transvestite bar where she's more than welcomed with words of wisdom and a few hard drinks.
DV: Domestic Violence
Director
Shogo (Kenichi Endo) and Yasuko (Yuka Hanabusa) are happily married. Until one evening when he slaps her in the face for reconsidering the promise she made before their wedding: to quit her job and devote herself to domestic chores once the knot was tied. From that first instance of aggression, things rapidly spiral out of control. Mounting violence becomes the new order of the day between the couple. (from midnighteye.com)
Déracine
Director
A mysterious street-painter, Jouji, wanders aimlessly, homeless. Together with his homeless pals, he makes his living by selling his paintings on the street. His paintings, dynamically exploding on pieces of cardboard, catch the eyes of Kyoko, an art dealer. He can feel alive only if he keeps painting, but unable to find something to fill his void inside, he tries to drown himself in alcohol. Drawn to Jouji, Kyoko commissions him to paint for her. The two travel to a secluded mountain-side, and there Jouji becomes inspired both by the natural surroundings and Kyoko herself.
Onna no naka no futatsu no kao
Director
2004 film
Tomie: Forbidden Fruit
Director
When a lonely high school girl befriends a strange, mysterious and beautiful girl, it is soon becomes clear that the two girls' meeting was not purely accidental.
Concent
Director
In her brother's apartment where he died, Yuki finds a vacuum cleaner with its cord still hooked up to the outlet. She discovers that the circumstances surrounding her brother's supposed suicide are sketchy at best, yet no one has any answers. When she starts having hallucinations involving his ghost, however, she seeks some psychological help, eventually uncovering some things that she may have wished she'd left covered.
Colorful
Director
Upon reaching the train station to death, a dejected soul is informed that he is "lucky" and will have another chance at life. He is placed in the body of a 14-year-old boy named Makoto Kobayashi, who has just committed suicide.
The Dentist
Director
Based on the novel of the same name by Azusa Katsume.
Coquille
Director
Thirty years after graduation, a man and a woman meet again at an alumni reunion. They are no longer young, but the moment she sees him, memories of her first love are revived. Her love for him has never faded even though she married another man and bore his child. What has kept her going is a white shell the boy gave her and a phrase of Jean Cocteau's poem, "My ears are shells, fondly hearing the sound of the sea..." She gets a divorce, returns to her hometown and opens a bar named "Coquille," which means "shell." Without their knowing, an unexpected turn of events awaits the two...
Lie Lie Lie
Director
Hatano is living as an insomniac freelance typesetter alone in his bayside apartment. One day, Aikawa, a high school classmate he hasn’t seen in over ten years, shows up on his doorstep bearing a bag of clams. Though he claims to be the director of a fast-growing trading company, Aikawa crashes on Hatano’s couch for days on end. When the sleeping pills he was offered produce a strange side effect, Hatano is slowly dragged into Aikawa’s con-artist lifestyle. Soon afterward, they cross paths with the representative of a big-name publishing company and Aikawa’s ultimate scam begins to unfold.
Yabo dake ga ai o korosu 3: Game no kisoku
Screenplay
Yabo dake ga ai o korosu 3: Game no kisoku
Director
Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold 2
Director
Tetsuo was suddenly told goodbye by Ginji. As for the farewell, only one of the tables was a real wad of bills and a full trunk. And, in that, there is a letter saying "Replace all this with the real thing!" Tetsuo is at a loss and one day meets Emi who works at the gallery. She endures the gallery owner of an amorous artist and aspires to be a painter. Tetsuo learns from her that a painting of Cezanne with a market value of 600 million yen has been sold to a Japanese person, and contacts the owner, Domon, the president of Teijin Bank. Inspire the desires of collection enthusiasts and imitation art dealers, and come up with a large-scale money game that opens up ambitions!
Black Market Emperor: Silver and Gold
Director
A man Tetsuo (Kosuke Toyohara) met at a racetrack offered him a job of 100,000 yen per diem, and although he was suspicious, he was urged by the amount of money and decided to take over. What's more, all he has to do is carry a huge cardboard box to the man's apartment. The contents of the cardboard are 1 billion yen in cash. It is said that this will be used to make a back loan. In front of the apartment, men line up for the money. Who on earth is Ginji Hirai and what is his motive? And what kind of fate will Tetsuo be involved in from now on ...?
Off-season
Director
The Gentle 12
Director
The film opens as a jury is about to acquit a defendant -- a bar hostess who pushed her ex-husband path of an oncoming truck, supposedly in self-defense. Just as everyone seems to be in agreement over the woman's innocence, one juror voices second thoughts.
The Cherry Orchard
Director
At an all-girls school, a group of girls prepare for a stage performance of Anton Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".
Doki doki Virgin mô ichido I Love You
Writer
Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of Sachiko's best friend, a girl. Can he convince Sachiko of his love?
Doki doki Virgin mô ichido I Love You
Director
Just when Hideki thinks he will lose his virginity, he gets hit by a car, and dies. God gives him a 2nd chance by placing his mind into the body of Sachiko's best friend, a girl. Can he convince Sachiko of his love?
Neko no youni
Director
Shakotan Boogie
Director
Two friends are into shakotan, the Japanese term for low-riders. The adventure of low-riding youths includes picking up girls and cross-cultural drag racing.
Makeup
Director
1987film
Leave My Girl Alone
Screenplay
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…
Leave My Girl Alone
Director
Hitomi, a former orphan who is trying to leave behind her delinquent ways, one day agrees to tutor a wealthy young boy who has just become an orphan himself…
Shoya no umi
Director
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Eve's Flower Petal
Director
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
Rope Sisters: Strange Fruit
Director
Muraki is a failure in his job as a salesman and has to deal with his wife's disappointment and criticism at home. One day, after sleeping in a park, he happens upon two women who look like they've been victims of a sexual assault. He helps them but as night comes an increasingly twisted mindgame unfolds between the involved parties and it is no longer certain who's the victim and who's the perpetrator.
Sannen-me no Uwaki
Director
A young couple with marital problems are beset by an office lady temptress, amorous paramours and the swingers next door.
Koichiro Uno's Dirty Sisters' Barber Shop
Director
A pair of sisters run a barber shop and have many erotic encounters.
Seiko's Juicy Thighs: Public Bath Beauty
Director
Slave Contract: Whip & High Heels
Director
Nikkatsu Roman Porno
On the Road
Assistant Director
Model Reiko Higa is injured after being hit by a car pursued by motorcycle cop Tomishima. Tomishima's supervisor refuses his request to apologize to Reiko, as it would be an admission of police responsibility. Forced to give up her career, Reiko leaves Tokyo to return to her hometown on Okinawa, travelling by road up to Kagoshima, and Tomishima pursues her in order to apologize.
Candidate For Seduction
Director
Yoshiko Ariake, a mainstream Toei actress lured to Nikkatsu, plays career lady Hineko who works for an interior design company. She's a confident woman, dedicated to business politics, but has never been willing to give herself to romance. In fact, it's easy for this fashionably bitter woman to be unfaithful in a relationship. Sparks fly when she meets a handsome rival (Yoshimitsu Onimaru).
High School Girl's Diary
First Assistant Director
A highschool coed’s dream of being a centerfold model comes true.
High School Girl's Diary
Screenplay
A highschool coed’s dream of being a centerfold model comes true.
Distant Thunder
Assistant Director
A young man living on growing tomatoes in a greenhouse in a residential area. Tomato cultivation is as doomed as his personal life where he tries to keep alive his romance with the eccentric Kaede and parents selected fiancee Ayako.
Mitsuryōzuma: oku no uzuki
Assistant Director
Roman Porno from 1981.
Essential Information for a College Girl
Assistant Director
The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.
Essential Information for a College Girl
Screenplay
The erotic adventures and troubles of several female college students.
Lady Caligula in Tokyo
Assistant Director
A housewife, tired of her husband’s infidelity, embarks on sexual adventures of her own, leading to a climactic masked orgy.
Wife's Sexual Fantasy: Before Husband's Eyes
Assistant Director
A businessman has a sexual affair with a prostitute. Some thugs are trying to blackmail him and make him agree to pay a large sum of money.
Wakazuma kannō kurabu: zetchō yūgi
Assistant Director
Woman's Trail: Wet Path
Assistant Director
A man travels with his pill-popping girlfriend to the headquarters of her yakuza boss husband, in order to claim her for himself.
Teacher Deer
Assistant Director
Mejika, a pretty Eurasian woman, is hired as a biology teacher at a renowned high school. She is reputed for her iron discipline. But the extremely provocative attitude of Mejika ends up worrying the school's administration. The young woman then sows trouble by revealing the cases of vice and corruption that are legion in this school...