Sadao Nakajima

Biography

Japanese film director and screenwriter known for his work in yakuza films and jidaigeki.

Directed

1. The Kyoto Connection (1973) — Director
2. The Shogun Assassins (1979) — Director
3. Girl Boss: Escape From Reform School (1973) — Director
4. The Great Okinawa Yakuza War (1976) — Director
5. Female Ninja Magic (1964) — Director
6. Jeans Blues: No Future (1974) — Director
7. The Seburi Story (1985) — Director
8. Withered Tree, the Adventures of Monjiro (1972) — Director
9. A Savage Beast Goes Mad (1976) — Director
10. Love's Twisting Path (2019) — Director
11. Pilgrimage to Japanese Baths (1971) — Director
12. Domineering (1982) — Director
13. Japanese Godfather: Ambition (1977) — Director
14. Nippon '69: Sexual Curiosity Seeking Zone (1969) — Director
15. The Rapacious Jailbreaker (1974) — Director
16. Code Between Brothers 6 (1967) — Director
17. Nunnery Confidential (1968) — Director
18. Shogun and His Mistress 2 (1967) — Director
19. 1750 Days of Turbulence (1990) — Director
20. Classmates (1967) — Director
21. Japanese Godfather: Conclusion (1978) — Director
22. Japan's Don (1977) — Director
23. Shadow Warriors (1980) — Director
24. The Revelation of a Geisha (1970) — Director
25. Appassionata (1984) — Director
26. Kogarashi Monjiro 2: Secret of Monjiro's Birth (1972) — Director
27. Yakuza Ladies Revisited (1991) — Director
28. The Viper Brothers (1971) — Director
29. The Shogun and His Mistresses (1967) — Director
30. Operation Plazma in Osaka (1976) — Director
31. Twisted Sex (1971) — Director
32. Aesthetics of a Bullet (1973) — Director
33. She-Shogun (1990) — Director
34. Memoir of Japanese Assassinations (1969) — Director
35. Shag (1978) — Director
36. Yakuza Hooligans (1966) — Director
37. Oda Nobunaga (1992) — Director
38. Yakuza Warfare (1991) — Director
39. Yakuza Ladies: Decision (1998) — Director
40. Yakuza Ladies: Dangerous Gamble (1996) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Mifune: The Last Samurai (2016) — Self - Filmmaker
2. Uzumasa Limelight (2014) — Sadao Nakajima
3. Chambara: The Art of Japanese Swordplay (2015)
4. Yakuza Eiga, une histoire du cinéma yakuza (2009) — Himself
5. Ryoma Sakamoto: Samurai Gunslinger (1989)